Curtain wall

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What Wikipedia says

Curtain walls are non-structural exterior building walls. They protect the interior of the building from the elements but since they carry no structural load beyond their own dead-load weight, they can be made of lightweight materials.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Curtain wall (architecture)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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