"When we moved to the U.S. the first time, we wanted to live in a glass building, like we'd seen on TV, " says the father of two.
The pavement is still a carpet of glass from shattered windows in every building.
Housed in an elegant five-storey Art Deco building of glass and steel tucked away in a Montparnasse cul-de-sac, the foundation was conceived by Mr Cartier-Bresson and his wife and fellow-photographer, Martine Franck, to showcase his life's work.
Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures, had seen Glass as it has created and wanted to invest in the developers building companies and applications for Glass.
Google Glass may be a fun experiment in building another mobile platform to attract as-yet-unimagined revenue streams.
The 10-story glass and concrete building was built in the 1970s and its rectangular shape resembled a toaster.
More important in terms of actual building, the glass boxes were economical compared to Beaux Arts marble, a crucial consideration in the period of postwar inflation.
The modern works are seen in an adjoining building of glass and black steel by Jean Nouvel.
The Bundestag now sits in Berlin in a building with a glass dome.
The flames, spectacularly reflected in the glass facade of an office building under construction across the street, died down only after crews were able to shut off the gas around 8 p.m.
Glaze a building and make the glass transparent in the wintertime, opaque in the summer.
According to her design which will require a change in the original building plans the leaves will then wrap around an elevator, etched in glass.
The One57 tower eventually will rise to more than 1, 004 feet, including a curved, glass top covering a cooling tower, when the building opens in 2013.
Just off the M8 at Newhouse, there's a shiny newish building packed to the steel rafters with tiny glass tubes in plastic trays.
Mies left us a series of 20th-century masterpieces, a revolution in the building art and a sea of imitators' glass boxes that remain conspicuously unloved.
In a three-story building of concrete and smoked green glass opposite Cisco Systems' San Jose, California headquarters, the grand design of the Internet is in its final tests.
The glass and white-painted steel roof floats elegantly above the building, letting in natural light so that how the works look changes with the day.
And in fact, there were other security guards inside the building behind the glass who were only shaken up by this.
The Urbis exhibition - an impressive glass-and-chrome building housing a completely interactive history of Manchester and cities in general - will be completed by the end of next year.
His two European office projects - one in Dusseldorf and the other in Prague - feature glass and concrete structures turned at crazy angles (the Prague building has been nick-named Fred and Ginger, after the Hollywood dance couple).
Embedding the structural support in the core made it possible to cantilever the roof and thus wrap a glass facade around the building, using vast expanses of insulated, triple-pane glass and mahogany mullions.
Buffeted by the building boom, the increasingly generic glass boxes-- the sort that dominate certain sweeps of Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan--came to seem ubiquitous, even inescapable, guaranteeing their place in history and serial rejection by factions all the way from the Supreme Soviet to the postmodernists.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
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