Its large plate glass windows frame perfect picture postcard views of Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge.
In the next iteration of the iPad, the glass was fused to the frame.
In reality, the phone was, of course, not a phone at all, but a slab of glass surrounded by a plastic frame.
As people filled the empty units, I was intrigued not only by the implied stories within the frame of the glass but also by the play of light upon the subjects, the shadows, the framing of the structure.
Here and there, an empty frame showed triangles of glass still clinging to the wood.
And users activate Glass by speaking, touching the frame, or moving their heads, according to the Times.
Comprised of a hefty metal frame housing six tempered glass panels (held together by one screw on each of its eight corners), the system nearly blends into any environment it's placed in.
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Most of the greatest glass boxes were designed by Mies, who realized the potential of suspending a "glass curtain" on a steel frame as early as 1928 with his Barcelona Pavilion: Since all the support needed was provided by the metal, the architect could use walls to sculpt space, as Mies did brilliantly with a delicate balance of transparent and reflective surfaces.
Made of little more than an aluminum structural frame, steel decking and glass, the rectangular and almost-completely transparent house is spartan.
Each frame is made using slow-drying oil paints on a backlit glass 'canvass'.
On the other hand, if you can put yourself in the right frame of mind, it does liven up the experience of fetching yourself a glass of tap water.
The idea, as rumored by DigiTimes, involves doing away with the display's frame by printing colors directly onto the back of the display's reinforced glass substrate from Corning (a la Gorilla Glass presumably).
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On a cliff-top site with a massive curved glass wall and built with slate floors, white walls and views which beautifully frame the surf, the fishermen's cottages and a distant lighthouse the gallery is a powerful work of art in its own right.
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