Sentences with phrase «glass edge of the building»

, you can walk on the translucent glass edge of the building for a complete birds - eye view with a healthy dose of fear thrown in for good measure.

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It's an absolute marvel — a mostly glass structure built onto the edge of the Chicago River.

Myhrvold's irreverent advice was just one of the cutting - edge food science and cooking tips that he shared during his talk, all the while dazzling the audience with film clips of wine glasses shattering, orange zest vaporizing, and a kernel of popcorn exploding in slow motion (as illustration of the kernel's «structural failure» to illustrate how water in food can become a «steam rocket» as the latent heat of the water builds up).

The amount of tension that builds during this sequence is enough to drive anybody to the edge of their seat, but when those beads of sweat begin to slide down Hunt's glasses, the feeling that they're all going to make it out alive precipitates.

I'd take the sleek edges and glass build of the Xperia over the plastic, clumsy - looking roundish shape of the Nexus 10, but the Nexus 10 has A) a better screen, B) a better battery, and C) stock Android, which make for a better - designed user experience, in my opinion (and apparently MeoCao's), than quality building materials do.

You can use Moto Maker to customize your Turbo 2, but how good is the build quality when comparing it to the curved metal and glass construction of the S7 Edge?

In fact, the pool extends beyond the edge of the building and has a glass bottom so you can see down to the city!

Shattered glass and the splintered edges of buildings spilled onto sidewalks.

Teeter on The Edge, a switchable glass cube that slides you out from the building's 88th floor for unsurpassed views of Melbourne and far beyond.

The amenities include it's own private pool surfaced with glass mosaic tiles, vaulted 22 foot ceilings, large storage area, high end appliances, bull nose edge granite and marble counter tops, laundry room with washer and dryer, dishwasher, built in hand crafted closets made of local hard woods, air conditioning, upper and lower outside terraces accented by custom crafted wrought iron railings.

Rather than designing a single, large expansion, Holl conceived five interconnected buildings, clad in translucent glass, creating a 850 - foot - long sequence of boxes whose overall profile follows that of the terrain they sit onto; a sinuous path, which borders the museum's sculpture park on its eastern edge, connects one building to the next.

The renowned analyst said at the time that Apple could be looking into building a new iPhone with glass casing on the front and at the back with a stainless steel metal frame running the edges of the device.

With the new design language and build quality of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge comes some compromises as well, with the glass and metal unibody design resulting in the lack of features such as a replaceable battery and microSD expansion.

2015 was the year that Samsung traded in cheap - feeling plastic for premium metal and glass in the build of the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge.

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S6 Edge Plus supersizes its smaller sibling and brings a high - end, premium device built out of glass and metal to the Android phablet world.

Samsung finally got the memo and joined the premium smartphone build with the release of its Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, which have a metal frame and Gorilla Glass 4 front and back.

While the original Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge introduced glass and metal to revamp a gradually underwhelming design language, its Active counterpart goes back to a full plastic build, with rugged lines and obvious signs that point towards the durability of this device.

It is well built with a metal frame and a stripe of metal that gracefully wraps around the entire edge to bring the glass display (with small bezels) and back together.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 edge also offers a solid, premium build, but it opts for a screen with curved edges on both sides and a combination of aluminium and tempered glass.

Adding to it the more premium build quality with its metal and glass unibody glass construction, the Galaxy S6 Edge is sure to catch the eye of anybody that comes across it.

While OnePlus is very particular about their build quality, and while the baked ceramic shell on the OnePlus X looks great, the curved metal edges and glass on the Galaxy S7 just oozes of quality.

A mark of a well - built phone in my eyes is the seamless transition from rear shell to glass front, and the OnePlus 5 achieves this with its single piece of metal curving nicely to form the edges, before transitioning into the Gorilla Glass 5 fglass front, and the OnePlus 5 achieves this with its single piece of metal curving nicely to form the edges, before transitioning into the Gorilla Glass 5 fGlass 5 front.

The Galaxy S7 Edge is very much the same metal and glass construction from last year's Galaxy S6, and except for the finger magnet on the back of the device, it is as robust and well - built as a smartphone comes to use these days.

Everything about the phone itself is incredibly elegant, from it's all - metal super high quality build to its ultra-thin construction and even the smooth slightly curved edges around the sides of the glass.

The top and bottom edges of the glass veneer echo the curve by angling ever so slightly away from parallel, contributing to the building's appearance of weightlessness.