Brise soleil building. This is most commonly used to prevent facades with a large amount of glass from overheating during the summer. Often louvers are incorporated into the shade to prevent the high-angle summer sun falling on the facade, but also to allow the low-angle winter sun to provide some passive solar heating. Brise soleil Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil (, plural, "brise-soleil" (invariable), or "bris-ole", from French, "sun breaker"), is an architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain within that building by deflecting sunlight. Brise-soleils can comprise a variety of permanent sun-shading structures, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls
Soleil (Brisbane) Soleil (Brisbane) Soleil is a skyscraper located at 495 Adelaide Street, Brisbane, Australia. Construction began in early 2009, with the building officially opened in 2011. At , it was Brisbane's tallest building until 2013 when Infinity Tower () overtook it. It contains 25 floors of serviced apartments and 43 floors of private residential apartments. In total there are 464 apartments. There is no penthouse in the building. The serviced apartments, which includes 50 apartments in the top nine levels, are owned by Meriton. It is situated on a relatively small corner site with rear access from Arch Lane. The slender