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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.
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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.
«Presently, we are surrounded by towering cranes and glistening glass facades of high rise properties which local residents can not afford to buy.
Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.
Another advantage is speed: the glass house and solar thermal mirrors took six weeks to build, compared to a solar thermal power tower project under construction since 2009 by BrightSource Energy for Chevron in California's Coalinga oil field near Fresno.
I painted the tower and then the glass by following the directions on the cans, and then protected it all with the enamel spray.
Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant, after the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.
THE TOWERING INFERNO ** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A Extrss A starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, based on the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson directed by John Guillermin
The city center of Frankfurt is crammed with towering glass cubes built by the banks before Mr. Lehman fell ill and infected his brothers.
The two parallel high - rises connected by a glass bridge are known as The Tower and are centrally located with regards to the resort's many ski trails.
Inspired by the Gothic splendor of the nearby St. Stephen's cathedral, the renowned French architect Jean Nouvel has created a steep tower built upon a glass base that contrasts against the silhouette of the old town.
The stunning 42 - storey glass tower was designed by renowned architect Sir Norman Foster and has become a distinctive Sydney landmark.
Emiliano: This glass - and - marble tower has 57 white - on - white rooms accented with furniture designed by the Compana Brothers and Eames.
The gleaming white Belle Epoque facade sums up the essence of Monte - Carlo ritz and glitz: inside, it boasts one of the most famous lobbies in Europe, with a glass domed cupola designed by Gustave Eiffel (as in, the tower).
Ultra-modern tower hotel designed by Richard Rogers with unique panoramic rooftop glass dome restaurant - Luxurious guestrooms...
The access hatch to the bell tower has been covered by a plate of glass built into the terracotta floor.
The Hilton is located by the Stansted airport (long stay) parking while the Radisson is directly linked to the main terminal and features the incredible â $ ˜ wine tower» - more than 4,000 bottles in a glass tower, retrieved by bar â $ ˜ angels» using special flying apparatus.
Sip a glass of sparkling wine and nibble on tasty appetizers as you glide past landmarks like Bitexco Tower, Nha Rong (home of the Ho Chi Minh Museum) and Cau Mong (a bridge designed by the architect of the Eiffel Tower).
Bounded on the west and north sides by towering glass walls overlooking Boston's skyline, the east side displays Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, featuring large - scale works by leading contemporary artists.
He's created basketballs floating in vitrines of distilled water; encased new vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescence in Plexiglas towers; cast statuary and everyday objects in high chromium stainless steel; fashioned painted polychrome figurative wood sculptures; cast glass sculptures of sex.
Judging by the 100 works on paper here, he was positively giddy, as effervescent as the towering glass of bubbly he sketched around 1963.
Mixed media paintings and abstract, three - dimensional constructions inspired by reflections in Manhattan's glass towers.
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.
She takes a similar methodical approach to her dynamic sculptures, constructing a tower out of glass or aluminum bricks that, layer by layer, seem to emerge from the floor.
Lot 1, «Under the Eiffel Tower in Tokyo Lauwarm,» a steel, wood, styrofoam, glass object with 48 framed photographs by Martin Kippenberger (1953 - 1997), sold for $ 64,000, an auction record for a sculpture by this artist.
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.
In The Colonies (2016), his first solo exhibition at MoMA, Beloufa presents an immersive installation of kinetic sculptures and video projection; CCTV cameras with Raspberry Pi mounts (small inexpensive CPUs) and speakers; walls made from foam and resin; plastic bags with crushed beer and soda cans; seating areas made from steel, pleather, and wood; and two videos — centered around his 2011 video People's Passion, lifestyle, beautiful wine, gigantic glass towers, all surrounded by water.
Additions were added over the years but it received a radical facelift in 2005 with the addition of 3 glass circular towers designed by architect Jean Nouvel and some extra exhibition space.
«For decades, wind turbines have required cranes and huge towers to lift a few hundred feet off the ground where winds can be slow and gusty,» explained Ben Glass, Chief Executive Officer of Altaeros, a company led by alumni of Harvard and MIT.
Richard Meier Terrariums: - A weak real estate market leaves hundreds of glass condo towers designed by star architects unsold and unpopulated.
The towering 5.7 - inch Quad HD Super LCD 5 screen shielded by Gorilla Glass 5, boasts the same resolution as the Lenovo Moto Z Force and ZTE Axon 7.
As Toronto's skyline continues to be transformed by the explosion of new high - rise construction, observers will be watching to see if the glossy image of these new towers is maintained or whether cascading glass balconies and watery suites will give rise to a significant spike in litigation related to high - rise construction deficiencies.
A building tower crane hosted each of the Telus letters into place, while crews waited in suspended compartments that looked like window - washing equipment, held up by six levels of temporary scaffolding and beams cantilevering out over the tops of the glass walls.
The museum, which features a glass tower, was designed by architect Antoine Predock, winner of an International Architectural Design Competition for the CMHR.
Constructed in 1899 by contractor George E. Starrett for his wife, the home features an octahedral dome atop the tower that acts as a solar calendar, with ruby - colored glass casting a red glow inward as the seasons change.
Designed by renowned architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, the tower is clad in silver gray reflective glass and anodized aluminum and accented by columns of bay windows of non-reflective glass and podium setbacks on two lower floors and four higher levels.