Sentences with phrase «from panes of glass»

Not exact matches

Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh - based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting from sudden temperature changes.

According to documents and sources, Apple AAPL, +0.24 % has run into a problem at Apple Park: Because so much of the interior is made from glass — the walls and doors, for example — people are walking into the panes, sometimes painfully.

Without the old confidence in the faith and the intellectual foundations of the Church, the room itself fades away and slips from existence — leaving only the window: a strange, free - floating pane of glass, hanging somehow in mid-air.

A dazzling feat of architecture, the glasshouses are constructed from over 700 individual panes of glass - no two are the same.

Layered like shingles, tens of thousands of glass panes let in precise amounts of sunlight to maintain habitats from arid to tropical.

It's after one pane of glass was smashed by the vandal, which has been patched up with part of a vote remain sign from the EU referendum.

Crichton shoots it mainly from the villain's perspective, thereby reducing the classic western brawl — Dr. Larry flies through panes of glass as though they're saloon windows — to crude virtual reality.

Scarcely in this picture at all is Wes's wife, Louise (Susan Hayward), whose marginalization from the insular, combative, more - than - a-little homoerotic relationship between the two men is communicated as soon as the three meet, laid out in a shot that places the men deep background in the reflection of a folding windshield as Louise is separated from them both by distance and the dividing pane of glass.

(Similarly, McQueen's tendency to suggest alienation by filming characters through panes of glass does little to advance on a trope from Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), as Rainer Werner Fassbinder did in many of his 70s films.)

The teardrop - style roof is formed from a single pane of lightweight acoustic glass and the concept's doors open «portal style» to reveal a «1 + 1 + 1 + 1» interior seating layout.

So far, more than 30,000 such parts are available, and gazing from the reception area through a panoramic glass pane towards the centre's dedicated XJ220 service area — six sultry silhouettes in various states of undress — we're reminded of just how seriously JLR now takes the wellbeing of its classic cars and their lucky owners.

Even a pane of glass between you and the scenery brings a faintly unreal quality, making it hard to believe you're actually there, interacting with the landscape, but there's no escaping it when the roof is removed from the equation.

The doves rose from the opposite rooftop in a sudden gray and scattery cloud, and as the floor lurched under me and two panes of glass shattered at my feet, I ran screaming for my father.

In that pane of crazed old glass is a bullet hole from the 1940s.

Sauna divided from the mountains only by a pane of glass.

The dining table made from a large section of tree trunk and a pane of circular glass is quite stunning.

Obstacles range from single crates to stacks of them, panes of glass and rotating saw blades.

Alongside the exhibition, pioneering works by Gerhard Richter from the collection of the Museum Ludwig are being presented, including icons such as Ema (Nude on a Staircase) from 1966, 48 Portraits of German intellectual figures from 1971/72, the abstract painting War from 1981, and the glass work 11 Panes from 2003, among others.

In works from an ongoing project she began in 2012, Skaer uses elements from her childhood home (where her father still resides) such as wooden floor boards, windows and doors and reconfigures them into boxes, cubes, or slabs, embellishing them with fine materials, replacing glass panes with lapis lazuli, and embedding objects from her father's various collections of disperate objects.

Ana Mendieta's «Untitled (Glass on Body Imprints)» from 1972 turns on its head the art tradition of men creating female nudes, and lets Mendieta depict herself, distorting her form with a pane of gGlass on Body Imprints)» from 1972 turns on its head the art tradition of men creating female nudes, and lets Mendieta depict herself, distorting her form with a pane of glassglass.

His pieces are made of found materials such as twigs or eucalyptus leaves, or glass, polaroids, unprepossessing black and white photographs, simple shapes cut from tin in various sizes, little pieces of carved wood or stone, clay, small mirrors and panes of glass, corrugated cardboard, or an assortment of odd linear bits of metal.

At the Olympic Sculpture Park, Finch has installed a nebulous formation of suspended glass panes that are, in his words, «creating a moving abstraction of a sunset, based on actual sunsets photographed from Seattle over Puget Sound.

In a series of wooden frames, made from old mouldings, mantle pieces and floor boards, various lengths of decommissioned fire hoses are coiled, folded and stacked behind panes of glass.

Whereas the first room is dedicated to thirteen paintings from the years 1963 to 2000, the second room presents the work 9 Upright Standing Panes [CR: 879 - 3], as well as the series of reverse glass paintings Aladdin [CR: 913/1 -42].

Prem Sahib: Side On at ICA Two jackets sandwiched between panes of glass, sculptures made from bathroom tiles and a stained white shirt are all works relating to the intimacy of the gay clubbing scene.

For his May 2012 solo at Thomas Duncan in Los Angeles, Sean Kennedy fashioned a series of clear acrylic glass panes that hung from the gallery's ceiling and upon which were placed all manner of objects, from cigarette butts and cell phones to plastic cups and cleaning products.

For this series, Minter re-photographed the models from the original shoot using a steamy pane of glass that suggests a shower while straying away from the specificity of a room.

From the mid-1970s, abstract painting became more predominant although he continued to work in realist styles and to explore innovative constructions using mirrors or panes of glass.

In a series of wooden frames, made from old moldings, mantle pieces and floor boards, various lengths of decommissioned fire hoses are coiled, folded and stacked behind panes of glass.

Influenced by early photographic processes and his immediate surroundings, Steven Earl Weber's new work will be seen as shadows reflected on surfaces from mirrors and panes of glass to illicit empathy and identification with his subjects.

Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and a few other atmospheric gases act like the glass panes of a greenhouse, allowing sunlight in to warm the planet but preventing heat from escaping.

Carbon dioxide acts something like the glass panes in a greenhouse, allowing sunlight in to heat the Earth, but preventing some of that heat from escaping into space.

(Despite the name, the greenhouse effect is different from the warming in a greenhouse, where panes of glass allow the passage of visible light but hold heat inside the building by trapping warmed air.)

They act like a blanket that surrounds the Earth and keeps it warmer than it would otherwise be, just as the glass panes of a greenhouse allow the sun's energy to enter but prevent some of the heat from escaping.

These windows are typically constructed from three panes of coated glass separated by two gas - filled chambers, each of which is more than a half - inch thick.

Because they act in a similar way to the glass panes of a greenhouse (ie letting in more light radiation from the Sun than they let infrared radiation out), they have been nicknamed «greenhouse gases».

And while these three tiny cones outputted satisfyingly clear and sophisticated sounds (the tinkle of glass from a broken window in The Dark Knight gave the impression that the pane had been shattered in our living room), the lack of rear channels kept us from being fully immersed in the film's audio.

«Kali Linux on WSL will enable them to better test security on their Win10 laptops, desktops and workstations from one pane of glass,» he told LinuxInsider.

The design has picked up a considerable upgrade from last year's Mi 5, with Xiaomi offering a chassis with rounded corners and two panes of glass sandwiched by a stainless steel frame.

As for the back, the glass actually bubbles up from the sides instead of just a flat pane straight across like an Xperia phone.

The most obvious issue to point out (besides the weird vibration motor bug) is the plastic back pane, a noticeable downgrade from the glass rear of the Z1.

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This grippy substance isn't adhesive and yet lets the Touchstone stick to just about any smooth surface, from my desk to my dashboard to a vertical pane of glass.

If you go look at Apple Retail Stores with big panes of glass, you'll notice frosted stickers / stenciling that hopefully make them easier to distinguish from empty space.

Since iOS 7, Apple has slowly moved the elements in iOS from ethereal, translucent panes of glass back to something that feels much more tactile (though not, of course, skeuomorphic), and it's better for it.

Key feature: Beautiful colored window panes from the Victorian era, the height of stained - glass use in American homes.

The National Association of Home Builders published a study in 2010 that detailed how reflections from double pane low - e windows can warp, reflecting focused sunlight almost like a magnifying glass.

Agile CRM recently launched Real Estate CRM, which is says «is designed to empower real estate professionals — agents, teams, brokerages, and property managers — to seamlessly track and manage all of their customers, leads, listings and deals from a centralized, single pane of glass.»

When faulty panes of glass from new Toronto condo towers began falling to the streets below, «it was like pigs flying, it was like planes falling out of the sky,» says Fleming in the documentary.