In Los Angeles, developers of Beverly West, a 22-story condominium with 35 residences, allotted some of the homes' premium space for closets, giving them glass walls with views of the city's skyline and green space surrounding the building.
Dozens of skyscrapers crowd the model from end to end, plate glass is everywhere suggesting that city planners see the Khartoum of the future shimmering like a giant chandelier over the desert.
As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
Days earlier, around when the first Explorer Editions started shipping, Maris tried wearing his Project Glass headset on the streets of New York City.
Perched on nearly half an acre, the glass-walled home features sprawling views of the city below.
FORBES: Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds List Shared Home
With one new friend, she strolled the city and stopped for a glass of wine.
At Richard Meier's two 15-story luminescent glass towers rising along the edge of New York City's Greenwich Village overlooking the Hudson River, the minimum apartment size is one floor-1, 800 square feet in the north building, 3, 700 in the south building.
At the southern terminus of the walk, the ancient city of Bath provided superior opportunities for shopping (Bath aqua glass, artisan handbags), dining (Sally Lunn's, the Pump Room, Jamie Oliver's), sightseeing (museums, Roman ruins) and relaxation in modern rooftop thermal baths, Roman-style, and eucalyptus and menthol showers.
Finally, order a glass or two of fine champagne at one of the city's stellar nightclubs - try Crystal on Rue Monot for bling or B018 in Quarantine for subterranean cool - then sit back, watch Beirut's beautiful people out to play, and toast to the completion of a road trip with which few others back home will be able to match.
Thanks to its 24 floors and M-shaped footprint, most of the 185 rooms have impressive city views through their glass-curtain walls, both from the bedrooms and the bathrooms, which are fully half as big as the bedrooms.
The effect comes partly from the all-glass exterior walls, with their view of Biscayne Bay, downtown Miami, the city's port terminal and a series of small islands.
Ride a glass elevator to the 160-meter-high observation deck for an incredible view of the city and its surroundings.
Earlier this month, the glass master's home town of Tacoma, Washington, a 30-minute drive from the city, honoured Mr Chihuly by opening a museum dedicated to contemporary glass art.
His work includes the cube store on 59th street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, as well as the new all glass store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
FORBES: Meet The Genius Behind Apple's Beautiful Retail Stores
Mimi Hoang, a principal of nArchitects, the design end of the three-prong winning team, said that high ceilings will add a feeling of spaciousness and sliding glass doors to Juliette balconies will make renters feel a connection to the city.
Watching it filter through the glass skyscrapers, I feel I am entering a forest of mirrors, struggling to recognise anything of the city I last visited 15 years ago.
If you would like a glass of red with that, there are more than 200 wineries within a day's drive of the city.
After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre.
应用推荐