It features luxury retailers at the street level, a glass box housing a clothing store on the fifth floor and a soaring space with stunning views on the seventh floor that can be rented for events all connected by an internal staircase that spirals up like a DNA helix.
Others marvel at the shopping center itself, a five-level riot of curving glass in steel arches that looks like a greenhouse designed by fantasist M.
Mr. Zehetbauer says his girlfriend complains that the door on the powder room on the main level is made of glass ("I tell her it's frosted glass, " he said).
The high-level waste would then be enclosed in glass canisters and buried deep underground while the low-level waste was stored above ground in special secure facilities.
On the most mundane level: scratch-proof glass and tiles that shed dirt and never need cleaning.
That required changing the chemical structure of the glass at the atomic level, Velasquez said.
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On the upper level of the foundry, below the glass ceiling, stand row upon row of rolls of brightly-coloured fabric.
The entry-level customer can stop in, have a glass of wine at the bar and leave.
Floor-to-ceiling folding-glass doors in the upper-level living room open onto a wood deck that is equipped with an outdoor kitchen, furniture, another television, patio heaters and, of course, more Haring-inspired murals.
Its street level windows have been boarded-up, the glass on the clock vandalised and metal theft has allowed rain water to get in, the Victorian Society said.
Everywhere there are stands displaying the latest in blast-proof glass or ceramics, so that vehicle makers can achieve the protection level armies are calling for.
The upper level has a two-story tower room, a wet bar, a glass-enclosed Conservatory and Pavilion that open onto a wraparound terrace with park and sunset views.
Also on this level are seascapes by Winslow Homer, pictures by Thomas Eakins and James McNeill Whistler and stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The lower level is outfitted with a 50-inch flat-screen television, a wine fridge and a glass light-up bar.
In Corning's wholly owned display business and Samsung Corning Precision, total glass volume is expected to be consistent to down low-single digit percentage sequentially, depending on the level of normal seasonal inventory correction expected from panel manufacturers.
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