In Alcoa's Pittsburgh office Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld has a cube with a sliding glass door.
Sliding glass door can be kept open to encourage collaboration, or closed for conference calls or meetings.
These houses are decidedly modern, incorporating open floor plans, integrated exterior and interior spaces and sliding glass walls.
The architect relied on only sliding glass panels that span 90 feet and open onto an infinity edge pool.
He limped briskly to a sliding glass door in one of the bedrooms, where he struggled to undo the stubborn metal lock.
Sliding glass doors lead out to a side deck and then up a set of stairs to a roof lounge with powder-coated aluminum railings and cedar decking.
In Los Angeles, Larry Scarpa says the "best weather on the planet" means it is all about the outdoors: His homes tend to be shed-like shapes with enormous sliding glass pocket doors.
Their three-room bicycle garage is made of the same materials, and has floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors in the fitness room that open to the same courtyard as the floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors in the main house's dining room.
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.
"Oh man, that's all my stuff coming out the door, them sliding-glass doors down there, " he said on the video.
Generous living areas with sliding walls of glass open onto exterior decks and a sparkling swimming pool.
Bemused onlookers watched the rescue efforts through glass sliding doors.
Couches and chairs have been re-covered, while polished marble and tidied-up fixtures give the bathrooms a more au courant look (the outdated sliding frosted-glass tub doors were mercifully removed).
The dimmer has a unique multi-touch capacitive interface that allows the light to be turned on or off by sliding a finger up or down on the glass switch front.
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