Location
Year
2015
- The veil is made primarily of 2,500 glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels and 650 tons of steel.
- The roof includes 318 skylight monitors with glazed openings to harvest diffused sunlight coming from the north.
- 380 different molds were used for the GFRC panels of the veil.
- 30 percent of the total veil molds are used solely to form the “oculus” portion of the veil to create its intensely curved shape which indents the veil into the building and the vault.
