Sentences with phrase «thin glass skin»

But the main reason they do it is cost; building with glass walls means that the builder is essentially subcontracting the entire exterior to one trade, and that thin glass skin is fast and cheap.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

Not exact matches

It radiates alpha particles, relatively large on an atomic scale, which means the thin glass of a test tube, the leather of a briefcase, or even air or skin stop them.

So why take down something that is built like a brick sh*t house to replace it with some thin - skinned glass box?