Word: glassing
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...food, it seems, is safe these days from being repackaged in a shiny platinum case as an upscale product--there's even a $40 bottle of water designed by a Hollywood producer and sold in a frosted-glass container affixed with Swarovski crystals. I don't know if economists use bottled water as a measure of financial well-being, but there must be a growing split between the rich and the poor. Because even as some people worry about being able to put any kind of food on the table, the sales of specialty foods are up 17% over...
...Saturday night, one of Harvard’s lesser-known musical groups, the Brattle Street Chamber Players, gave a polished performance in Paine Music Hall. The group premiered “Gilded Glass,” a piece composed especially for the group by Elizabeth C. Lim ’08, before playing two relatively obscure pieces: Igor Stravinsky’s “Concerto for String Orchestra in D” and Antonin Dvorak’s “Serenade for Strings.” It became apparent by the end of the evening that the group...
...seek as you approach them. One of his most influential designs was for an unbuilt skyscraper in Paris, the Endless Tower. Envisioned as a structure rising to over 1300 ft. (400 m.), its surface would shift to ever lighter materials, from granite to aluminum to stainless steel and finally glass, appearing to disappear as it ascended into...
...Then there's his Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, a glass-walled structure that has another, free-standing glass wall set a few yards in front of it. You see the glass building behind a shimmering screen of glass that's constantly reflecting the street and sky. It's architecture as mirage...
...tall building in colors that tall buildings don't usually wear. His 2005 Torre Agbar in Barcelona is a cylindrical tower covered in a gridwork of painted metal panels. Windows turn up all around, seemingly at random. The entire tower is then surrounded by a membrane of fixed glass louvers fritted with ceramic dots that blur your view of the multicolored surface behind them...