The modern works are seen in an adjoining building of glass and black steel by Jean Nouvel.
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.
Never knowingly understated, Branson marked the occasion by rappelling down the side of the glass building.
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The sharp lines of the concrete and glass building suggest movement and create energy.
The Bundestag now sits in Berlin in a building with a glass dome.
And in fact, there were other security guards inside the building behind the glass who were only shaken up by this.
The Quinn Group gradually expanded, supplying other building products, glass and plastics, and eventually moved into insurance, hotels and property development.
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.
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"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.
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.
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.
Glaze a building and make the glass transparent in the wintertime, opaque in the summer.
He bought a one-bedroom at the Orion, a glass condo building near Times Square with a three-story "amenity suite" and an indoor pool, with the help of Prime NYC, a local brokerage.
The 10-story glass and concrete building was built in the 1970s and its rectangular shape resembled a toaster.
The Glass team is building the product and we're along for the ride.
The imposing, glass-fronted building situated on the prominent Mahatma Gandhi Road resembles a posh international store rather than a traditional jewelry shop.
The 80, 000 sq ft glass and limestone building, which ranks among the most expensive cultural projects ever built, was completed by Canadian firm Diamond and Schmitt Associates.
The structure's cone-like shape was designed to reduce wind turbulence, yet there is only one piece of curved glass on the building: a lens-shaped cap at the very top.
The underlying steel structure plays off the tinted glass, counterbalancing the building's mass with layers of reflected light.
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.
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.
But the glass and steel-clad building "has become too large" said the Herald's website thisisplymouth.
The building will be restored and updated with glass features and skylights.
Building on last year's "Glass and Metal" design concept, the 2013 VIERA models continue to focus on sleek designs while delivering pristine picture display and superior sound quality.
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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.
When the mortars destroyed the Sarajevo Opera Hall, the cellist felt as if he were inside the building, as if the bricks and glass that once bound the structure together had become projectiles that sliced and pounded into him, shredding him beyond recognition.
The pavement is still a carpet of glass from shattered windows in every building.
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