Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Spandrel panel / spandril panel

In a multistory building, a wall panel filling the space between the top of the window in one story and the sill of the window in the story above

Found in almost all styles of architecture

See also: Spandrel

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Mayflower Apartments
  
  
• Campanile Apartments
  
  
• Buffalo Industrial Bank
  
  
• Title Guarantee Building
  
  
• Courier Express Building
  
  
• Kensington High School
  
  
• 70 Johnson Park
  
  
• City Hall
  
  
• Buffalo Museum of Science
  
  
• Philip Becker House
  
  
• Henry Schwartz House
  
  
• Chillion M. Farrar House

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