Sentence examples for a glass block from inspiring English sources
A glass block wall frames the open circular staircase to the basement.
The first, a glass block at 40 Mercer Street, in SoHo, that was finished in 2007, is surprisingly understated.
The master bedroom has mirrored freestanding closets and an en suite bathroom with a glass block shower.
Through a glass block tile in the east wing corridor, a visitor can glimpse a well, fed by an underground stream, whose water is pumped up to flow into a small marble wall basin.
Under the still-nascent plan, the owner, Jamestown Properties, would add a glass block of roughly eight stories, with 250,000 square feet of office space, above 10th Avenue.
Their 11,000-square-foot house is a spectacular blend of a stone farmhouse with a glass block silo that allows solar heating for a greenhouse, where Mr. Hillier cultivates orchids.
Several of them, dressed in leisure suits or blazers, sat against a glass-block wall.
The subterranean space -- concrete-trussed with a glass-block ceiling -- was a men's public lavatory.
The boys were pulled through the basement window by a passing motorist who broke a glass-block window, he said.
After Jeanneret's death in 1967, his niece Jacqueline Jeanneret preserved 24 linear feet of his Chandigarh paperwork in metal boxes at her Geneva apartment in a glass-block building that Le Corbusier's firm designed.
It has a sitting room with built-in bookshelves and a glass-block wall, a walk-in cedar closet, a bathroom with a jetted tub and a separate shower, and a study with a built-in desk and bookshelves.
