We have seen this on a grand scale with the Guinness QR pint glass earlier this year, but other companies have done some really interesting things with the technology.

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Ms Glass criticised the Met for not referring the case to the watchdog when the scale of their internal concerns first emerged in early 2008.

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The Venturis' once-shocking pronouncement that Main Street was almost all right was a flash of urban wisdom that could lead to the realization that the maligned glass box is almost all right for a contemporary vernacular suited to the unprecedented scale of the commercial structures that fill our cities.

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Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.

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