Sentences with phrase «glass house built»

This photograph by James Welling is part of an ongoing series of works begun in 2006 which documents Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut.

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Last year it opened a $ 16 million optical lab dedicated to building its own glasses in - house.

A few days after our breakfast, I visit her current home base, a pop - up at Space 15 Twenty, a bright, airy building in Hollywood with rows of glass cases housing hunks upon hunks of gorgeous rock.

«The history of glass houses is horrible,» he added, referring to historic buildings like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House near Plano, Ill., which sits on and was damaged by the Fox River.

The path to the reporters» warehouse passed a red brick building that houses IceStone, a company that makes countertops from recycled glass.

Plans were laid for a steel and glass - clad building on the UNR campus that would house, four years hence, the Whittemore Peterson Institute: a collection of labs, clinics, and the office of the president, Annette Whittemore.

The center is housed in a cluster of modern concrete and glass buildings perched on the coast in La Jolla, Calif..

Another advantage is speed: the glass house and solar thermal mirrors took six weeks to build, compared to a solar thermal power tower project under construction since 2009 by BrightSource Energy for Chevron in California's Coalinga oil field near Fresno.

Kogonada, a video essayist with Reddit cred, frames everything from towering glass office buildings to the long hallways of Casey's house with Zen - like composition, giving Columbus a beauty that strengthens the foundation of its two transcendent lead performances.

I have a dream one day to build a house with an internal garage and a glass wall separating the Clio V6 and the living area.

As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead.

While today's e-reader displays are built on plastic, they're housed in a rigid enclosure, and the focus is on other benefits of plastic, such as its durability, thinner size and lighter weight compared with glass.

Just like the iPhone 8, the iPhone 8 Plus sticks to a familiar form factor, with water resistance and built - in stereo speakers, but replaces the metal housing with a glass back to enable wireless charging.

Rendered in glass for a nearly transparent feel, this newly built contemporary villa offers views of the white sands and turquoise waters of Anse des Cayes from nearly every room — and the calming sound of the waves from nearly every seat in the house.

Guests to want to opt in on the «Kinsella Experience» will not only stay in the house's one bedroom upstairs, but also receive a «Field of Dreams» commemorative baseball, a bottle of wine plus two wine glasses and a picnic tablecloth, a DVD of the movie (with popcorn to enjoy it with), actor Dwier Brown's (he played Kevin Costner's dad) book, «If You Build It,» and a $ 25 gift card towards a breakfast at a local Dyersville country breakfast spot.

Housed in a turn - of - the - century landmark Beaux Arts building, XV Beacon blends magnificent historical detailing with modern opulence, featuring a grand marble staircase, mahogany paneling, original caged - glass elevator, and a distinguished art collection.

The alluring appeal of Kennigo Social House begins when you enter the building, with a stained glass front door, dating back over 100 years.

SUPER KING MASTER SUITE: - Stand - alone, ocean - view suite with lofty thatched roof and teak floors - Super king - sized four - poster bed - Two sets of sliding glass doors, one opening onto a patio - Study with window seat and large flat - screen TV and DVD player - Ensuite with cream terrazzo tub and outdoor shower - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan KING MASTER SUITES 1 & 2: - Two master suites house in separate buildings featuring alang - alang thatched ceilings and teakwood floors - King - sized beds with mosquito nets - Patio - Stone - walled garden bathroom with cream terrazzo tub and outdoor shower - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan

BEDROOMS MASTER SUITE: - Housed in its own pavilion separated from the living and dining area - King - sized bedroom with vaulted ceiling, dark teak floors, glass doors leading out onto a private deck with garden and ocean views - TV lounge with comfortable sofas, large flat - screen TV with DVD player - Small reading room which «floats» above the fish pond with glimpses of the pool - Huge dressing room - Semi-open ensuite bathroom with large rectangular terrazzo bathtub, his - and - hers vanities, and walk - in rain shower - Private garden - Air - conditioned GUEST BEDROOMS 1 & 2: - Both guestrooms are housed in a separate pavilion adjacent to the dining area — designed for children but flexibly accommodate adults - One room has a queen - sized bed with large flat - screen TV and DVD player, while the other one has twin beds and a small outdoor balcony - A corridor with built - in - robes connects the two bedrooms while also giving access to the shared bathroom - Shared bathroom features grey slate walls and flooring, indoor terrazzo bathtub and walk - in shower, additional outdoor shower with water feature - Large shared wooden deck - Air - conditioned GUEST SUITES 1 & 2: - Two - bedroom guesthouse located 50m from the main house for privacy - Queen - sized beds complimented by light and airy cream walls and teak floors - Garden bathrooms with indoor shower and glass sliding doors leading onto a wooden deck - Adjoining living area for the two rooms - Self - contained kitchen with breakfast bar and Housed in its own pavilion separated from the living and dining area - King - sized bedroom with vaulted ceiling, dark teak floors, glass doors leading out onto a private deck with garden and ocean views - TV lounge with comfortable sofas, large flat - screen TV with DVD player - Small reading room which «floats» above the fish pond with glimpses of the pool - Huge dressing room - Semi-open ensuite bathroom with large rectangular terrazzo bathtub, his - and - hers vanities, and walk - in rain shower - Private garden - Air - conditioned GUEST BEDROOMS 1 & 2: - Both guestrooms are housed in a separate pavilion adjacent to the dining area — designed for children but flexibly accommodate adults - One room has a queen - sized bed with large flat - screen TV and DVD player, while the other one has twin beds and a small outdoor balcony - A corridor with built - in - robes connects the two bedrooms while also giving access to the shared bathroom - Shared bathroom features grey slate walls and flooring, indoor terrazzo bathtub and walk - in shower, additional outdoor shower with water feature - Large shared wooden deck - Air - conditioned GUEST SUITES 1 & 2: - Two - bedroom guesthouse located 50m from the main house for privacy - Queen - sized beds complimented by light and airy cream walls and teak floors - Garden bathrooms with indoor shower and glass sliding doors leading onto a wooden deck - Adjoining living area for the two rooms - Self - contained kitchen with breakfast bar and housed in a separate pavilion adjacent to the dining area — designed for children but flexibly accommodate adults - One room has a queen - sized bed with large flat - screen TV and DVD player, while the other one has twin beds and a small outdoor balcony - A corridor with built - in - robes connects the two bedrooms while also giving access to the shared bathroom - Shared bathroom features grey slate walls and flooring, indoor terrazzo bathtub and walk - in shower, additional outdoor shower with water feature - Large shared wooden deck - Air - conditioned GUEST SUITES 1 & 2: - Two - bedroom guesthouse located 50m from the main house for privacy - Queen - sized beds complimented by light and airy cream walls and teak floors - Garden bathrooms with indoor shower and glass sliding doors leading onto a wooden deck - Adjoining living area for the two rooms - Self - contained kitchen with breakfast bar and stools

The next building is the air conditioned Glass House, a two - story glass - walled studio with a library and two spacious in - suite master bedrooms with king Glass House, a two - story glass - walled studio with a library and two spacious in - suite master bedrooms with king glass - walled studio with a library and two spacious in - suite master bedrooms with king beds.

With its wide nave and chapter house, the Minster features stunning stained - glass windows, and can be seen towering over the surrounding crooked medieval buildings from almost everywhere in the city, but is most impressive when observed up close.

Guangzhou's best hotels are housed in some of the most magnificent glass and steel skyscrapers in the city which have been built over the past decade during the city's incredible transformation.

A history that began in the fourth century with a Roman fortress and settlement has bestowed a wealth of stunningly - preserved historic buildings upon Boppard from the remains of the original Roman city wall to the twelfth - century Church of St. Severus, notable for its twin spires and beautiful stained - glass windows, and to the many half - timbered houses which were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The San Juan Suite retains many of the architectural features of this 1905 historic craftsman style house, yet has all the modern amenities and conveniences for a comfortable stay including hardwood floors, a formal dining room with chandelier, leaded glass built - ins, high ceilings, and a cozy remote controlled gas fireplace in the large family room.

The gourmet kitchen houses high - end appliances, including a glass - top range built into a granite island.

Glass House is absolute luxury, designed by internationally acclaimed British architect Andy Hall and built in 2010 this exclusive 4 bedroom, 7 bathroom lavish house sits on 1,652 square meters of absolute beachfront on the golden sands of Kewarra BHouse is absolute luxury, designed by internationally acclaimed British architect Andy Hall and built in 2010 this exclusive 4 bedroom, 7 bathroom lavish house sits on 1,652 square meters of absolute beachfront on the golden sands of Kewarra Bhouse sits on 1,652 square meters of absolute beachfront on the golden sands of Kewarra Beach.

In this show, curiously, the strongest building is the smallest: a cast of a doll's house made out of glass.

In my show at Participant a couple of years ago, I had mostly watercolors of radical fairies and friends of mine, and I used furniture from my own house, which was being torn down in order to build a glass, steel high rise.

This sympatico relationship with built environments is the subject of this new collection, Annie Leibovitz shoots Renzo Piano's New York Times building, and James Welling turns his lens on Philip Johnson's Glass House.

Ranging from his earliest photographs of Los Angeles architecture begun in 1975 to his most recent inkjet prints incorporating dance and architecture, «Choreograph,» the exhibition presents for the first time Welling's two «glass house» projects together — buildings by Philip Johnson and Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet.

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About the Glass House: The Glass House, built between 1949 and 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation located in New Canaan, CT..

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

NEW CANAAN, Conn. — The Glass House is pleased to present Personal Effect: Works from the Collections of Philip Johnson and David Whitney this spring in our Painting Gallery, the structure designed and built by Philip Johnson in 1965 to house the personal collection so carefully acquired by bothHouse is pleased to present Personal Effect: Works from the Collections of Philip Johnson and David Whitney this spring in our Painting Gallery, the structure designed and built by Philip Johnson in 1965 to house the personal collection so carefully acquired by bothhouse the personal collection so carefully acquired by both men.

Naturally, when Honeycutt discovered The Glass Room, a 2009 novel by Simon Mawer that tells the compelling and tragic tale of a Modern house built in Czechoslovakia before World War II, she was drawn to the story, and she decided to use it as the basis for this exhibition.

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University PrGlass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Prglass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

The 9,700 - square - foot house is built outward from the original, stone core structure in glass and sequoia.

Group shows have included Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (2011), Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2008), and Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, New York (2006).

Cross over Commercial Street and turn left; a five - minute walk sees the landscape change from glass and steel office blocks to warehouse conversions and reclaimed spaces, one of which, The Tea Building, houses Hales Gallery, as well as the members» club Shoreditch House on its top two floors.

Both were active during the same era: Although the Glass House was built in 1949, the pavilion was constructed in 1962, four years before Ms. Kusama created «Narcissus Garden.»

In 1970, Solomon, along with architect Gene Leedy, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, built an award - winning precast concrete and glass house and studio on the Gulf near Midnight Pass in Sarasota.

Our office space is linear and minimalistic, with as much natural light flooding in as possible; in fact the tree - house has a few walls entirely built from glass which really open up the space.

In a major project last winter, Hayes turned the glass - walled lobby of Lever House — the iconic Modernist office building on Park Avenue designed by Gordon Bunshaft — into a huge terrarium with a landscape of tropical trees and foliage.

Constructed specifically for the exhibition were two Frank Lloyd Wright — designed buildings: a temporary pavilion made of glass, fiberboard, and pipe columns, and a 1,700 - square - foot, fully furnished two - bedroom Usonian exhibition house representing Wright's organic solution for modest, middle - class dwellings.

The famous glass and steel building housing a collection of 20th century European painting and sculpture will be closed to the public during the extensive renovations, which are scheduled to begin in early 2015.

Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia The Glass Tea House Mondrian is an innovative project that provides a space in which to experience architecture, where the pavilion itself becomes the exhibition, an innovative example in which the artist freely suggests a theme and a project, allowing experimentation with the setting, shapes, building techniques and innovative materials.

In the hall on the first floor of the villa, White Newborn (1993 - 1994) was presented on a Steinway grand piano; four walls of the building were sparsely and elegantly furnished with several postcard collages; and in the smaller rooms of the house, wooden showcases contained reflective bronze and occasionally black or white glass sculptures.

The museum takes its name from the famous international - style building known as The Glass House, which is part of the complex.

View of the Glass House site, with the buildings «Studio» (foreground) and «Da Monsta» (background), photo by Paul Warchol

Mies van der Rohe and I had discussed how you could build a glass house and each of us built one.