Sentences with phrase «glass structures within»

Not exact matches

I explained they were harmless, and essentially highly compressed air slipping over a structure moving at greater than the speed of sound... or an explosive wave expansion that moves out and then rebounds in... and so, the compressed waves move into our area from the weapons test area, and shake the glass windows, and we hear the sonic «sound» (or the wave's double sound) and the vibrational aspect of the glass within the window.

These structures also scatter the light that enters the glass, helping more of the light reach the semiconductor material within the solar cell, where it is converted into power.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

Situated within a mirrored environment that is at once brilliant and disorienting, Bunker — M. Bakhtin is paired with an obsessively intricate structure made of glass, crystals, and aluminum suspended in midair — an homage to the visionary Weimar architect Bruno Taut, whose «peculiar fusion of futurist fantasia, utopian manifesto, and private obsessions,» in the artist's words, seems to preside over the exhibition as a whole.

Wanting to make the most of its «tube - iness» and cellular structure, he blasted out the belly of the building and crowned it with glass atria to create a central chamber that functions almost as a transept, and installed elevators and spiral staircases «like big drill bits» within the tubes.

Within the painting's shaky symbolic structure, one can make out a pairing of raised glasses, which puts any «interrogation» into the context of a toast.