Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and...
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A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes...
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areas were all in one glass-enclosed room, which Johnson initially lived in, together with the brick guest house. Later, the glass-walled building was used...
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Daylighting (architecture) (section Smart glass)
of glass brick are translucent-to-transparent. Traditionally they are hollow and grouted with a fine concrete grout, but some modern glass brick walls...
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A red brick university (or redbrick university) was originally one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England in...
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Architecture portal Category: Building materials Alternative natural materials Glass in green buildings Green building and wood List of commercially available...
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Plate glass, flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls...
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a temple-like quality. Taut's Glass Pavilion was the first building of importance made of glass bricks. There were glass-treaded metal staircases inside...
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Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson in his directorial debut, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt....
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notable for its widespread use of innovative materials such as glass brick, clinker brick and linoleum, and is also the first Italian building with a welded...
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film applied to ordinary window glass. Glass block, also known as glass brick, is an architectural element made from glass used in areas where privacy or...
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The Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers' International Union (ABG) was a labor union representing workers in several industries in the United States and...
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toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering...
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the other two. The floors alternate between tile and glass brick with no mullions. The glass bricks provide interior lightning in lieu of full windows....
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Clinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive...
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Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials. Founder George E. Bennett...
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Wall (redirect from Brick Wall)
panels, bricks, cloth, plastic, plasterboard, wood, blocks of clay, terracotta, concrete, and glass. Some partition walls are made of sheet glass. Glass partition...
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architecture, including a horizontal orientation, rounded corners, the use of glass brick walls or porthole windows, flat roofs, chrome-plated hardware, and horizontal...
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tower set on a basically rectangular ground floor. It is finished in glass, brick, and metal, in the Mid-Century Modern style. The tower is organized around...
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room is at the second floor, and has two large balconies for women. The glass brick minarets are lighted with light after sunset. The mosque was formally...
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contains wide expanses of plate glass in steel or concrete frames. This contrasted with the (largely Victorian) red brick universities and the very much...
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glass together, as glass by itself is too brittle and would require an overly large kiln to be used to span such large areas by itself. Glass bricks were...
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contains a decorated one-story brick restroom. The restroom contains decorative piers protruding from all four corners; glass-block openings; and Art Deco...
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backlit glass brick shaft at one edge of the open-air lobby. Scalloped steel railings line the central staircase which is anchored by a glass brick column...
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"block glass" or "glass brick" in English. Sometimes it is also called a "station musée" (station-museum). While one can find some of the glass brick along...
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supernatural fiction series The Nevers for HBO. Its offices (made out of glass bricks) were on the lot of 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles, previously the home...
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designs, particularly the main structure of the entrance with its glass doors, glass brick windows, and the name MIAMI written in the Art Deco variation of...
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Crown Fountain (category Glass architecture)
composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15.2 m) tall, and they use light-emitting...
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