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Richardson expects that transparent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) will be embedded in structural glass, so that flat clear panels will provide a plethora of lighting options.
FORBES: Far Future Of The Living Room
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He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.
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Made of little more than an aluminum structural frame, steel decking and glass, the rectangular and almost-completely transparent house is spartan.
WSJ: The Do-It-Yourself Desert Retreat
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The colors make the space exuberant, the bamboo makes it warm, and together they make the building as much an exercise in sensuous comfort as in structural bravado although the swaggering structure is there, too, replete with glass and natural light and a sense of grand space everywhere.
NEWYORKER: Situation Terminal
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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.
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