Solar radiation penetrates the glass during daylight hours and heats the masonry wall. This wall then slowly releases the stored heat into the building during the cooler nighttime hours ...
As it did during Philip Johnson’s lifetime, the Glass House—that icon of mid-century modernism—continues to explore the relationship between architecture, landscape, and art. Last year, with Veil, for ...
Residents and vendors around a Hong Kong shopping centre have called for stepped-up inspections a day after a dislodged glass panel of its external wall fell ... order the building’s owner ...
The child and the man were both hospitalized when the glass shattered on top of them on the sidewalk below the towering building, cops said. The scary scene unfolded around 6:10 p.m. when the ...
While some of Chicago’s late 19th-century tall buildings, such as the Reliance Building at State and Washington streets, were predominantly glass ... right up to the wall, they are full bricks ...
Once your makeshift mansion is floating along the sea while the sun sets, you’ll come to admire the shark trophy plastered to your wall. While base building is a bit of frivolous fun in other ...