Sentences with phrase «glass tower»

A half dozen will be housed at H Queen's, a new glass tower in the Central business district dedicated to art and luxury brands.

If anyone ever needed a lesson in why we should stop building glass towers and why we should be building to far higher standards of insulation, this has been it.

The Car and Driver offices were not, as I expected, in some magnificent glass tower.

And it is investor demand that has supported the endless supply of glass towers in downtown Toronto, accounting for 75 % to 95 % of the pre-construction purchases for those projects, mostly to service a red - hot condo rental market, says Ben Myers, executive vice-president at condo research firm Urbanation.

Qataris live in glass towers and behind walls of villas, most of which affect postmodern Arabic style in the same way that new buildings in Santa Fe affect the Pueblo vernacular.

On a sunny day in early June, near the top of a 60 - story glass tower with panoramic views of Boston, three independent Morgan Stanley directors heard a stern critique from money managers at the hedge fund Highfields Capital Management LP.

Two 50 - foot black glass towers on either side of a reflecting pool project images from a thousand Chicago citizens, creating the illusion of water pouring from their mouths — a modern take on the spouting gargoyles and other creatures of traditional fountains.

The Trump International on the Chicago River, a modern glass tower with gorgeous views, has an indoor pool, spa, and luxurious limestone bath.

The shiny - new glass towers rising over the exhibition's Chelsea location only reinforces Shannon's position.

When Chad Leat was considering whether to buy a full - floor apartment in one of architect Richard Meier's sleek glass towers in Manhattan's West Village, he was excited and terrified in equal measure.

Smoke - stained brick factories along the once - industrial shores of Brooklyn and Queens gave way to shiny glass towers as new parks and esplanades attracted residents to the water.

Two 50 - foot black glass towers on either side of a reflecting pool project images from 1,000 Chicago citizens, giving the illusion of water pouring from their mouths — rather like the spouting gargoyles and other creatures of traditional fountains.

JW Marriott Hotel: A gleaming glass tower designed by U.S. - based Arquitectonica, the JW Marriott has a covetable address on the Costa Verde bluffs.

This enormous, curved glass tower just a stone's throw from the shops of Wangfujing has a lot going for it: super-solicitous service; excellent in... Read More

Starting in 2008, when a cool - blue glass tower made its appearance on the skyline, those attending events there, as well as others just visiting the city, had a modern and elegant alternative to the typical San Francisco hotel.

The video at the center of the presentation, People's passion, lifestyle, beautiful wine, gigantic glass towers, all surrounded by water (2011), features a group of people in an unnamed city enthusiastically describing their experience there.

Jamestown Properties wants to add a 250 - office glass tower above a section of the market overlooking 10th Avenue, as well as a 12 - story, 90,000 square - foot hotel on the Ninth Avenue side, over Buddakan restaurant.

It takes a lot to make waves in Sin City, but Aria did it in 2009, redefining the skyline with its minimalist, curvilinear glass towers housing 4,004... Read More

the 54 - story condo building stands out from the crowd of glass towers by incorporating a series of «sky gardens» at different parts of the building.

Traci Gresham has been appointed general manager of Cygnus27, located within the Amway Grand Plaza Glass Tower.

VW buyers can choose to take delivery of their new cars from one of the Autostadt's twin 20 - story cylindrical glass towers.

This multipurpose development includes two sleek glass towers containing offices and serviced apartments.

Imposing 27 - story Glass Tower Hotel situated on the water's edge, 4 km from airport & 18 from downtown Istanbul...

Back when Madonna's Like a Virgin first debuted and Mikhail Gorbachev had just become the new Soviet leader; a pink glass tower known as the 63 building had just become tallest building in the world outside of North America.

The stunning 42 - storey glass tower was designed by renowned architect Sir Norman Foster and has become a distinctive Sydney landmark.

These six glass towers represent the six major extermination camp, the menorah candles and the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

The two - year - old Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas is a glamorous, Asian - inspired haven in one of CityCenter's contemporary glass towers.

Glass towers jut out of the city's peripheral coastline, the thick Central American jungle on one side and a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis on the other.

The 34 - story glass tower stands at 375 feet tall with 1,005 breathtaking rooms.

The hotel's 25 - story, ultra-modern glass tower makes a grand statement as the most cosmopolitan and contemporary of Lima luxury hotels.

This luxurious modern and newly opened Glass Tower building features 471 rooms and suites.

The adjacent East Village neighborhood features Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres, as well as a community of new residential glass towers and an up - and - coming culinary scene.

The holiday resort is surrounded by a crystal clear carbonated ocean, where four fountains spray seawater in a majestic Glass Tower in which it is blended to create «a deep, elegant flavour» to become Sparkle Water.

From the visual representation of time (known by Latham as the «quantum - of - mark») in the early spray paintings and One - Second Drawings, to the book reliefs of the 1960s, the roller paintings of the 1970s and the late glass tower works which incorporated bits of all theorems, John Latham maintained a steadfast devotion to exploring the most complex cosmological ideas and questioning the traditional notions and structures of art, science and philosophy.

One can blame the Center for cowardice, but not for turning the Freedom Center's glass tower into a glass bowel.

Her work «Tower Rheinstetten ``, a 2m high acrylic glass tower, is not only an examination of the expressive transformative power of light, it also stimulates the different themes of the exhibition and adds a sensual presence and plasticity.

The jury was very taken with 60 Richmond, a housing co-op described in the submission as «an alternative to the local ubiquitous glass tower condominium.»

Architects and buyers have complained of how boring glass towers have become.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber remains with its world - acclaimed, two - glass tower Goodyear Polymer Center at the University of Akron.

At the northern entrance to the mall, Oslund followed up the design of the main west entrance with a shorter glass tower.

A concrete jungle of energy - hog glass towers with ugly and expensive monster houses is not inevitable.

Finding a visual language that would enable the garden to sit comfortably with the combination of new steel glass towers and the Georgian London - brick almshouses that line one side was one of the many challenges Stephen faced.

And it is investor demand that has supported the endless supply of glass towers in downtown Toronto, accounting for 75 % to 95 % of the pre-construction purchases for those projects, mostly to service a red - hot condo rental market, says Ben Myers, executive vice-president at condo research firm Urbanation.

Not only does glass transfer heat and cold much more than other materials - making buildings more expensive to cool in the summer and heat in the winter - but builders have typically built glass towers with the same materials on all four sides, even though the impact of the sun is far more severe on the south and west.

Architect and writer Lance Hosey took issue with that point, noting that studies have shown that «the mid-century modern glass tower, a staple of American urban environments, often can not be adapted to out - perform a new, more efficient building.»