In all that concrete, marble and glass, it's easy to forget it's a city made possible by water.
Nearby is the 563-room Shangri-La, an ultramodern marble and glass tower hotel offering equally expansive rooms and views, free wi-fi, and a bar on the 36th floor with a very popular happy hour.
You can see that the facing -- the marble, the glass -- has fallen.
Every corner of Upper House spells luxury, from the glass and marble lobby to the sleek rooms with rain showers and sculptures.
Guests arriving by car or cab check in at a lower motor lobby, where elevators can whisk them to their upper-floor rooms, bypassing its glitzy glass and marble main lobby fronting West Georgia Street, a major downtown thoroughfare.
She took a sip and with her usual insistence on quiet muffled the impact of the glass on the marble with the soft tip of her little finger.
Situated in the historic district, the mansion, built in 1886, provides couples with picture-perfect settings that include rooms with Tiffany stained glass windows and carved marble fireplaces.
Opened in 1866, this incredible cemetery boasts 250, 000 square-metres of eclectic art nouveau sculptures including Greek temples, elaborate obelisks and giant, glass-fronted, marble tombs that could pass for houses.
Over the years, she has maintained many details that she believes were original to the house, from the marble bathroom sinks and stained-glass windows to the large pocket doors and carved wooden fretwork.
The flat-roofed, rectangular glass house, with white travertine marble floors and decks, floats elegantly on steel supports along the banks of the Fox River in Plano, Ill.
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.
At the center of the plant is a rest area where black marble pools, bordered with fake coconut trees, reflect the glass ceiling.
With brilliant stained glass windows, elaborate sculpted woodwork and 35 varieties of Italian, African and Belgian marble used throughout the interior (think grand pillars and a colourful marble floor), this is the place to take someone you want to impress.
The bathroom now has a sloped ceiling, added windows, a skylight, hand-cut sky-blue glass tiles in the shower, a big white tub and contemporary oak cabinets with Carrara marble tops.
Couches and chairs have been re-covered, while polished marble and tidied-up fixtures give the bathrooms a more au courant look (the outdated sliding frosted-glass tub doors were mercifully removed).
The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.
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