Ms. Rourke and her board chose to take over the neighborhood's old library and turn the main reading room, with its extraordinary glass skylight, into a theater, using other rooms for a bar and cafe, offices and writing quarters.
Founded in 1818, it used to hold 3,800 people (as opposed to today's 1,067) and had an extraordinary glass curtain that weighed five tons, which eventually had to be removed for fear it would bring the house down.
Green Party: Hand-blown from recycled glass at Esque's wind-powered workshop in Portland, Ore., the double peaks of this punch bowl display extraordinary glass-blowing skill, $840.
It is suggested that the extraordinary glass-forming ability of this alloy is essentially attributable to the formation of ISRO and IMRO, and the dense packing of atoms.
Bright, winter light is filtered through an extraordinary stained glass window, which depicts the bearded figure of God surrounded by vibrant flames of turquoise and inky blue.
The attractions at le Printemps included an extraordinary stained-glass cupola that loomed closer and closer as we ascended on the escalator.
The result is a city of extraordinary contrasts, of glass and steel skyscrapers and fetid shantytowns, of internationally recognized universities and widespread illiteracy, of glittering abundance and desperate poverty.
A few glasses of orange-peel-scented grog and you start to appreciate the work that goes into those little gingerbread houses with their snowy roofs and tiles made out of sweeties; the heart-shaped cookies and oranges stuffed with cloves; the extraordinary array of glass baubles and musical boxes.
Ramanathan et al. reported an extraordinary shift in glass transition temperature (Tg), modulus, ultimate strength, and thermal stability for poly acrylonitrile) and poly methyl methacrylate) using very low levels of functionalized graphene sheets [13].
When I first saw the film, I remember being stunned with Allen's sheer audacity in the scene where he remembers his old schoolroom, sitting alongside kids who harangue him in adult language about his sexual precocity: "For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud speaks of a latency period!" One extraordinary girl in glasses addresses the camera and says: "I'm into leather".
It's a Catholic church that has catered to the families of working class fishermen of Portuguese, Italian, Scandinavian and Irish descent since 1893 (the stained glass is extraordinary and lining the entire chapel are literally dozens of gorgeous handmade miniature fishing boats; stunning images of vessels at sea and related biblical narratives are built into the stained glass).
