Glass

Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid. Because it is often transparent and chemically inert, glass has found widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in window panes, tableware, and optics. Due to its ease of formability into any shape, glass has been traditionally used for vessels, such as bowls, vases, bottles, jars and drinking glasses, leading to its use in stained glass windows and other glass art objects.

The steel and glass roof spreads between two brick flanking buildings.

The sides of the terminals, predominantly glass, were designed to break during high-speed winds

The main construction materials are wood, metal and glass.

concrete ceiling, metal, steel, glass, green Swedish marble in the main dining room

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The facade is composed of glass, interspersed with steel mullions

The residential tower has a glass facade with piers made of terracotta

The facade is made mostly of glass panels, while the spandrels between stories are made of terracotta. The superstructure is made of steel and concrete

end walls constructed completely of plate glass framed by aluminum and supported by wood columns that are clad in aluminum

The Glass House (or Johnson House) is a historic house museum on Ponus Ridge Road in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The facade is made of anodized aluminum and black glass.

The rectangular form of the glass-clad towers is interrupted by a series of metal fins that add a hint of complexity to their appearance and reduce glare for the interior office spaces.

Named for its anchor tenant, PPG Industries, which initiated the project for its headquarters, the buildings are all of matching glass design consisting of 19,750 pieces of glass.

It is the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows covering the majority of its surface area-a design feature that became dominant in the 20th century.

The Johnson Administration Building is designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style, with a curved brick facade and Pyrex glass-tube windows.

The facade includes embossed copper spandrels and louvers, tinted glass windows, and poured stucco surfaces.

One of the most recognisable landmarks in Hong Kong, the building is notable for its distinct shape and design, consisting of triangular frameworks covered by glass curtain walls.

The exterior of the building consists of a glass and steel curtain wall with a steel frame and a concrete core.

The Johnson Administration Building is designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style, with a curved brick facade and Pyrex glass-tube windows.

The original buildings share design features, such as facades of glass, enameled steel, and colorful glazed brick.

The "Black Rock" nickname is derived from the design of its facade, which consists of angled dark-gray granite piers alternating with dark-tinted glass.

The building is noted especially for its glass facade, symmetrical fire escapes and ornate iron work.

The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004.

The Louvre Pyramid (French: Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass-and-metal entrance way and skylight designed by the Chinese-American architect I.

The facade consists of a glass curtain wall set on a concrete foundation and topped by a flat roof with metal capping.

The facade system of glass and aluminum panels installed into an inclined movement-resisting lattice contributes to overall lateral rigidity by tying back to the mega-columns with one-story high trusses at every eighth floor.

The exterior curtain wall is made of glass, stainless steel, aluminum, and granite and is criss-crossed by complex latticework cladding made of aluminum alloy pipes.

The facade for the upper stories is mostly a curtain wall made of aluminum and glass.

The main portion of the headhouse's facade is made of green-tinted glass walls measuring 1⁄4 inch (6.4 mm) thick and spanning 3,500 square feet (330 m2).

The facade of the skyscraper is made out of glass and has vertical mullions, made out of white glazed terracotta.

Its design combines a number of different architectural concepts, resulting in a striking structure built with reinforced concrete, covered with a facade of glass, and over 4,500 window openings cut out of the structural concrete.

The curtain wall exterior is clad in panels of dark smoked glass.

It was constructed in 1911 according to Werner's plan but with the glass facades designed by Gropius and Meyer and then expanded in 1913.

The museum is faced with Portland stone, but the perimeter walls and other parts of the building were built using Haytor granite from Dartmoor in South Devon, transported via the unique Haytor Granite Tramway.

The tower takes the form of nine cylindrical buildings stacked atop each other that total 128 floors, all enclosed by the inner layer of the glass facade.

The exterior of pale-coloured glass draws inspiration from Korean ceramics and features accents of metal filigree.

== Design == The Tianjin CTF Finance Centre is designed with a gently curving glass facade that incorporates eight sloping mega-columns.

The spheres, which were constructed using an integral steel framework, are covered by concrete tiles and laminated red glass panes.

The steel and glass construction was a difficult task for the engineers, particularly as the glass roofs were shortened by approximately 100 metres (330 ft) to speed up construction.

The 88-floor towers are constructed largely of reinforced concrete, with a steel and glass facade designed to resemble motifs found in Islamic art, a reflection of Malaysia's Muslim religion.

The exterior is made of matte steel and reflective glass; the interior is made of travertine marble, white oak, and Belgian linen.

Meanwhile, the structural framework of the roof, which rests on eight steel beams, and the glass facade was restored.

The building’s all-glass facade offers several features that benefit its occupants.

Architecturally, it exhibits many characteristics of futurism, with a slightly irregular cubic façade of plate glass over a steel frame.Kyoto Station During the mid-1990s, Kyoto was one of the least modern cities in Japan by virtue of its many cultural heritage sites, so locals were largely reluctant to accept such an ambitious structure.

It was designed with cast iron pillars, ornate olive coloured iron work and a glass domed roof while the offices and restaurant walls were made of carved oak wood.

It is conceived as two rocks washed away by the Pearl River. Its freestanding concrete auditorium set within an exposed granite and glass-clad steel frame took over five years to build, and was praised upon opening by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian, who called it "at once highly theatrical and insistently subtle."

There were problems with the use of blue reflective glass in a steel tower: entire windowpanes, 4 ft × 11 ft (1.2 m × 3.4 m) and 500 lb (230 kg), detached from the building and crashed to the sidewalk hundreds of feet below.

It is a high-tech architecture structure, with use of exposed steel, aluminium panels and glass.

A landmark of the city is the redesigned walk-in glass dome above the plenary chamber, proposed by artist and architect Gottfried Böhm.

The building's cladding was to comprise 18,144 panels, 114,000 square-meter of glass, and 1,600 tonnes of window frame extrusions.

The building's Permasteelisa curtain wall uses clear low-emissivity coated glass and a curved wing-shaped polished stainless-steel mullion system that projects 9 inches (23 cm) from the glass line.

The new station is made of steel, glass and white concrete.

Soon after it was built, prominent architects described the factory as "the most beautiful spectacle of the modern age" (Le Corbusier in 1932) and "a poem in steel and glass" (Robertson in 1930).

Bader commissioned the architect Georges Chedanne and his pupil Ferdinand Chanut to design the store at the Haussmann location, where a glass and steel dome and Art Nouveau staircases were finished in 1912.

This great hall is fronted by full-height glass walls, and is covered by a concrete roof that consists of a flattened and segmented arch, a modernist version of a barrel vault from a Roman bath.

The blue glass cladding that covers most of the building represents the blue background of the stockade's flag and the white lines also represent the Eureka Stockade flag.

It is crowned with a dome, made of metal and glass, providing the building with natural lighting.

Rainforests of the World, rainforest exhibit enclosed in a 90-foot (27 m) glass dome.

The five floors are covered by a glass facade to the north, and it provides a panoramic view of the Persian Gulf.

Designed as a joint venture by Studio Daniel Libeskind and Denver firm Davis Partnership Architects (architect of record), the glass and titanium- clad building opened on October 7, 2006.

The copper and glass dome, as well as the viewing platform and event centre underneath it, had been criticised by some as "resembling a collapsed soufflé", but quickly won the admiration of critics and public, being noted for "its undulating lines, which echo the volcanic landscape and hills around Auckland".

It celebrates the power of iron and glass to permit the construction of large open spaces, but still utilizes domes at crossings.

The windows are exceptionally large and numerous at a time when glass was a luxury, leading to the saying, "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall." In order to give more scope for huge windows without weakening the exterior walls, the Hall's chimneys are built into the internal walls of the structure.

It was planned and inspired by the shape of a pharaonic obelisk, with the glass exterior representing the Egyptian god Amun’s Shuti crown.

The Paul Hamlyn Hall is a large iron and glass structure adjacent to, and with direct access to, the main opera house building.

A tower made of glass is used to represent Ginger.

By designing the weight distribution on the mounts, it allowed for the outside walls of the building to be made of high efficiency self-supporting glass instead of conventional load-bearing wooden walls.

Goodyear had a fine collection of modern paintings, and I decided to have a gallery serve as a "spinal column" from which all the rooms, with an expansive view to the south, opened, I employed glass walls from floor to ceiling, the ceilings continuing beyond the walls to form wide sheltering eaves.

Visitors enter into the cathedral through a tunnel and emerge into a bright space with a glass roof.