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A 30-foot-long glass bridge blends ancient wisdom with cutting-edge design
The Glass Bridge eliminates the need for traditional reinforcements ... each playing a crucial role in bringing the structure to life. Building on millennia of intuitive wisdom and scientific ...
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The world’s first glass bridge blends ancient wisdom with modern innovation
This idea isn’t new—it goes back thousands of years. The Romans and Mesopotamians built arches that used compression to support massive structures. In the 17th century, scientist Robert Hooke ...
The Architect’s Newspaper5d
Höweler + Yoon unveil design for glass pavilion for the Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo on the historic Richardson Olmsted Campus
The Lipsey Center Buffalo (LACB) will decamp from its post inside a tower of the Richardson Olmsted Campus’s central building ...
Torrington's iconic glass building — once the site of a school — gets interior makeover
UConn Health will occupy the first floor of the iconic downtown Torrington building that was once a school before given a ...
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Manhattan Skyscrapers
Officially named the Fuller Building (for the company that had commissioned it), the structure was instantly ... and bronze-tinted glass), by the elegance of its detailing and proportions, and ...
Chicago Tribune4mon
Edward Keegan: Solverre in Uptown adds, provocatively, to Chicago’s long history of glass buildings
The building’s concrete structural frame ... the two ends of the U are predominately brick with vertical ribbons of glass accentuating the structure’s height. On the west facing Clarendon ...