Sentences with phrase «glass skyscrapers»

If you're THAT worried about the little burdies, steve, how about painting the windows of the glass skyscrapers so that the burdies won't be killed by flying into glass?

His more than 125 public sculptures grace everything from the grassy sweeps of idyllic public parks to the imposing facades of steel and glass skyscrapers.

The cover shows Martineau travelling «deep into the rice - growing countryside as well as into the looming glass skyscrapers of Tokyo».

A surging wall of water gushed through the pocket parks and tree - lined streets of downtown Brisbane, saturating trendy boutiques, stately government buildings, and gleaming glass skyscrapers.

Workers draped large flags from the glass skyscrapers.

He acknowledged the brass - and - glass skyscraper has become a major vulnerability and liability for his department, and argued the NYPD could only act as sole caretaker for so long.

The motorcycle chase sequence in Istanbul, the train top fist fight, and the underwater scuffle are all fantastic, but it's the scene where Bond goes head - to - head with an enemy in a Shanghai glass skyscraper that's easily the most mesmerizing of all.

But the year is 2008, the sub-prime crisis is under way and except for their Hugo Boss and Armani suits and the stainless steel and plate glass skyscraper they work in, there's little to distinguish the smooth operators earning $ 1m bonuses on Wall Street from the grifters in Glengarry Glen Ross.

The towering inferno of the title is a glass skyscraper that has caught on fire on the day of its grand opening.

Hanging one's hat between wood - paneled walls in a glass skyscraper doesn't mean so much in a world where work can be done from anywhere at any time.

At the time, Ceruzzi envisioned a 71 - story glass skyscraper with retail, a hotel and apartments.

Not exact matches

Though science has yet to hit upon an affordable artificial light source — a key obstacle to making agricultural skyscrapers commercially viable — Despommier envisions a future populated by greenery - filled glass towers.

Skyspace LA, the tallest open - air observation deck in California, features an all - glass slide that cascades down the side of the US Bank Tower skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles.

Glass surrounds him on three sides when he sits in his 17th - floor office: behind him and to his left, the skyscrapers of Toronto's Financial District.

From inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty he stood in awe, gazing out at the sea of skyscrapers, shining like metal and glass exclamation points, punctuating the urban skyline.

The hopes of Barca fans the world over were smashed like a glass dropped from a skyscraper last week as the overwhelming favourites went down without a fight against Roma in Italy and were subsequently knocked out of the Champions League.

The Chase Bank building downtown might seem to be just another glass - faced skyscraper in the ranks of the Loop.

The biggest share of the deaths comes not from glass massacres at skyscrapers but from occasional collisions with the nation's many small...

In his book The Vertical Farm, Columbia environmental health professor Dickson Despommier argues that cities of the future might feed themselves by creating farms inside enormous, glass - walled skyscrapers where every floor is a solar - powered greenhouse.

After 50 cycles of harmonic vibration — skyscrapers swaying rhythmically from side to side in giddy wobbles — dozens of tall buildings have shed most of their glass.

«It looks quite practical for skylights,» he said, «or in big skyscrapers, because they've got the whole surface area covered in glass.»

The biggest share of the deaths comes not from glass massacres at skyscrapers but from occasional collisions with the nation's many small buildings, says Scott Loss of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

When inserted into the body, stem cells latch onto the structure and differentiate into cells that start to build bone, much as construction workers assemble walls, floors, and glass around a skyscraper's steel girders.

In Godzilla, the orgy of climactic destruction arrived with what Werner Herzog would simply call the pitilessness of nature, with the tears of a cowering human populace finding a visual and spiritual analogue in the glass - strewn weeping of skyscrapers as they collapse.

Rampage's action strengths are mostly in the mobility of the giant creatures, who leap up and down skyscrapers, dive in one side of a building in an explosion of glass and pop out on the other side, and at one point (in a clear homage to the original video game), ride a falling skyscraper to the ground.

A teen girl is connected to scanning cables and she shouts at a woman behind a glass wall, pulls loose and runs through shattering glass, unharmed; as the girl reaches the woman, the woman dissolves into silver confetti and the girl flies out a crumbling skyscraper, falls past skyscrapers that fill the screen with crumbling concrete and she hits the pavement, which breaks into pieces.

In one of the film's best scenes, he takes Stahl to a top floor in an empty skyscraper, where the two of them get high and throw themselves repeatedly against the shatterproof plate - glass windows.

John McTiernan's superior Die Hard established a fresh subgenre of action hero in the works, crawling through air ducts and fire - walking over carpets of glass in a forbidding, terrorist - occupied skyscraper.

It has thunderous robots against terrifying monsters fighting to the death as skyscrapers shatter like glass all while set to an amazing musical score.

Skyscrapers of steel and glass sprout thatched roofs.

The action sequences are far more restrained than the opening (A bit in a den of Komodo dragons is the campy exception — an entertaining one, nonetheless), like the fight that ensues between Bond and the thief in an abandoned wing of a skyscraper with glass walls like mirrors reflecting only the ambient light a massive illuminated sign in the night.

Destined to be the world's tallest skyscraper for a little over a year, it jutted above the noonday tumult, twenty - eight stories of Bessemer steel, terracotta, and glass.

This modern 23 - story skyscraper is attractive and clad in glass panels.

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.

Moving on to 1954 and the low - keyed eighth painting in the series (now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York)-- greys, blues, muffled yellows on a surface just over six feet high by three and a half feet wide, a motor metropolis of tightly curving ramps with headlight beams spreading like stains suggest a vision, slightly smudged, as if seen through the thick glass window of a skyscraper; at any rate remote from the scene of automotive nightmare.

A highly innovative approach for its time, 717 was the first glass curtain wall skyscraper on Fifth Avenue.

Clusters of modernist skyscrapers, incredibly tall, glass and steel buildings, became dominant features of urban skylines around the world.

Norman Bel Geddes, «Skyscraper» cocktail shaker, eight glasses, and serving tray, designed 1934, manufactured 1935.

If you skipped New York's grittier art fairs this season and now regret it, compensation awaits in a scruffy food fight of an exhibition at a relatively swank address: Lever House, the first glass - curtain - wall skyscraper on Park Avenue.

Away from the pristine beaches, blue skies and swaying palm trees of Miami Beach, and the glass and steel skyscrapers that give Brickell its...

The two colored pencil drawings of Steve DiBenedetto (American, b. 1958) are inspired by the shiny glass architecture of skyscrapers.

[21] Kandor 10A (2010), a yellow city housed in a hand - blown, pink glass bottle, is a grouping of tall skyscrapers situated within a full - scale rock grotto.

Skyscrapers in particular, but also any glass windows cause more bird death than wind mills by a significant margin as well.

As many as a billion birds a year are killed in the United States when they collide with glass on all kind of structures, from skyscrapers and office buildings to homes and bus shelters.

«It is as if the Web design company searched for «reflective skyscraper glass» in an image gallery and then accidentally hit «purchase all.»

In the official Liberland journal published in February of this year, images can be seen of glimmering glass and steel skyscrapers and futuristic cityscapes.

The City's most famous of worship is a neo-Gothic marvel, with ornate decorative elements - spires, stained glass windows, marble cladding that makes it stand out amid Midtown's skyscrapers.