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Today our lunchtime assignment was to find interesting pictures of buildings during a cloudy, rainy day. I happen to like the new, mostly glass Jenner & Block law firm building, so I tried to ...
Glass is one of those things that's all around us but noone stops to think about, like, how does light just pass through it ...
Chicago, Illinois On the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower, tallest building in the western hemisphere, "the Ledge" features four glass boxes that extend 4.3 feet outside the building.
Some 150 bullets pierced four buildings when a shooter opened fire Aug. 8 at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
This office building in Geneva features a complex glass facade that makes it look like a shimmering urban mirage. The new Headquarters of the Swiss Société Privée de Gérance (SPG), designed by ...
Glass towers are indeed passive solar collectors, but at the worst possible time, mid summer. Robbed of the stuff of architecture they cannot mediate a comfortable environment.
The Glass Farm is 14 meters (46 feet) tall, making it about 1.6 times the size of the typical farm buildings it represents. MVRDV hopes this will evoke child-like nostalgia in locals as they're ...
How to clean an 11-story-high glass dome, 150 feet in diameter? The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is getting all spiffed up for its Sept. 30 debut. And chief among the tasks at hand is ...
“It’s like building a ship inside a glass bottle,” said Mike Rotter, one of the Hoffman Construction superintendents overseeing the landmark’s $100 million renovation.