Talk:spandrel

Google seems to indicate this is something specific to construction? --Connel MacKenzie 20:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

• It may well need updating, but what's in there now is directly out of Webster 1913. Dvortygirl 20:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
• I have expanded it, using the OED and the web. SemperBlotto 13:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• I intended to deal with this over the last week, but sidetracked myself. There are some additional meanings relevant to modern construction (particularly with curtain walling, where a spandrel panel is the opaque panel between the window on one floor and that on the next, and a spandrel beam runs behind it). The relevant sense of spandrel is on my to do list. It is intriguing that this meaning fits the etymology better than the ones listed (which pre-dated it), but at present, I think that is coincidental. --Enginear 20:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk from rfv. Andrew massyn 05:47, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Added a reference to spandrel glass and spandrel panels, as used in modern skyscrapers (and modern style office buildings). Gary Wheeler, architect. WonderWheeler 22:10, 7 August 2007 (UTC)