Sentence examples for floating glass from inspiring English sources

Dale Chihuly's floating glass onions on the lotus pond.

Here, Cinderella levitates, drinks from a floating glass and even turns her stepmother's umbrella into a wire scarf rack.

The new wing, which cost $135 million and is scheduled to open late next year, will appear as a low-slung pavilion of smooth concrete, Douglas-fir beams, and stretched scrims of fabric, crowned by a floating glass roof.

In practice, the floating glass bulb is usually inserted into a cylindrical glass tube equipped with a rubber ball at the top end for sucking liquid into the tube.

The new federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to look like a floating glass cube: solid and clean as the law ought to be and suspended above the pedestrian flow of everyday life.

1950: Dedicated Modernists In March, the floating glass house that Donald E. Olsen, an architect, built in 1954 as his family residence on a sloping lot in Berkeley, Calif., became a city landmark, heralded as a brilliant example of modernism.

The price includes outrageous embellishments, like a $500,000 Dale Chihuly chandelier that illuminates the floating glass-and-granite staircase like a firework in a state of perpetual explosion.

In the front entry, a towering wall of windows underscores a floating glass-and-steel staircase.

An elevator and floating glass-and-wood staircases connect each level.

Currently, float glass products for façade glazing are available with a variable solar protection index value, obtained by the interposition of different kinds of solar radiation filters (microlouvers, metal mesh, etc).

Glass made by this method is called float glass, and it is how glass panes have been made since the 1950s.