Now it is just boring, full of bland boring towers of boxes of glass," he said.
New York is a city of boxes stacked upon boxes -- boxes of glass and steel, concrete and brick -- pyramids and pillars of architectural boxes piled up to the sky.
Some of it was wrapped in newspaper, editions of The Philadelphia Inquirer from long ago, and some was wrapped in kraft paper, including several boxes of glass negatives and contact sheets.
We salvaged 600 enamel lights from Longbridge; we have 300 boxes of glass funnels that were in storage for 40 years – we turned them into lights; and 50 tonnes of cast iron from the Intellectual Property Office, which we've turned into tables.
Each of these building types is expressed by a particular architectural form: all the office buildings, for instance, are simple boxes of glass and steel, almost Miesian (although some of them are raised on very un-Miesian angled pillars, like crossed legs); all the meeting rooms are stainless-steel-clad pods, and they, too, sit atop columns.
COSTA MESA — There's not much left on the stockroom shelves of Cal's Cameras & Video except for decades-old boxes of glass slides, now considered relics in this era of digital photography.
It was a square box of glass, wood and concrete that sat on a smaller plinth.
In 2000, a neighbor brought Mr. Mateiciuc a box of glass-plate negatives from the early 1900's from his attic.
Later he calls a song "the musical equivalent of the sound of throwing a box of glass off the roof of a house".
In these cases the box of glass plays a determining role in the definition of the atmosphere that edges the ruins.
