Support is provided by slender, jewel-like, X-shaped polished chrome columns placed well inside the building's edge, and the walls that no longer bear weight have become transparent glass screens.
The public art installation is designed in such a way that not only is the noise of the city miraculously blocked out, but one cannot escape getting slightly sprayed by the inspirational mist enshrining twelve panels of transparent glass behind the waterfall.
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Glaze a building and make the glass transparent in the wintertime, opaque in the summer.
One such item: a Sottini Fairhaven pedestal sink with chrome legs and a transparent green-glass counter.
When an electric potential of 50 volts is applied across the film, the particles line up and the glass turns transparent.
The exact chemical composition of a fibre's glass determines how transparent it is to different frequencies, and also its tendency to disperse those frequencies even when it is transparent.
Mr Tanaka's administration in Nagano has become so transparent that he even sits behind glass walls, through which voters can see their governor at work.
"A piece of glass can be both transparent and reflective at the same time, depending on how it's situated relative to the audience, " said Mr. Steinmeyer, pointing out the secret.
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Such materials might include plastic or photovoltaic glass, which changes from transparent to opaque at the flick of a button.
Physicists have known for a long time that the speed of light is reduced when it travels though any transparent medium, such as water or glass.
The mosque is suffused by light entering from clerestory windows cut into the steps of the pyramid, and the traditional mihrab an ornamented niche indicating Mecca's orientation has sprouted into a full-length, transparent kiosk, animated by modernist stained glass.
And yet, at the same time, the bright sunlight streaming through the Glass Hall's massive, transparent walls, makes it feel like being outdoors.
Pound for pound stronger than steel, lighter than cotton, thin as a human hair, flexible as silk, transparent as air, these fibers, drawn from glass, may revolutionize communications.
It is all wood and glass, with one vast, expansive transparent wall, and received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for its eco-friendly construction and operation.
Made of little more than an aluminum structural frame, steel decking and glass, the rectangular and almost-completely transparent house is spartan.
Video of the earlier panel also showed up relatively crisp and semi-transparent, allowing me to see the real-life images behind the Glass.
Richardson expects that transparent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) will be embedded in structural glass, so that flat clear panels will provide a plethora of lighting options.
It looks like Google has considered transferring ideas from Project Glass over to your wrist by patenting a smart watch with a transparent, flip-up touchscreen.
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