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THE ASCENT OF GLASS.(glass in architecture)
ADVANCES IN PRODUCTION, ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION HAVE ENABLED GLASS TO RISE TO NEW HEIGHTS AND ASSUME UNEXPECTED FORMS
"This is probably the largest tension-supported glass wall in the united states." Todd H. Schliemann, a partner in the New York City architectural firm of Polshek Partnership, meets me in front of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Looking up at the soaring 95-foot facade of the glass cube, I experience a jaw-dropping awe usually reserved for natural phenomena like geysers. I slowly take in the gravity-defying physics of a wall of 5/8-inch-thick ...
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