Yet there is something special about this quietly glamorous glass-walled corner site.
Over all, the national and city governments and private investors have spent about $1.3 billion to revamp the Stedelijk, the city's modern art museum; the National Maritime Museum, which reopened with a glamorous glass-enclosed central courtyard and new exhibits; and other cultural centers in Amsterdam, including the Rijksmuseum.
The Burtons and I got acquainted in La Grande Cascade, a glamorous all-glass restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne.
At the age of 14 I was too busy having girls reject me despite my glamorous acne, braces, glasses, and uncombed hair.
It didn't look quite as glamorous as the "under glass" had promised.
And there, as inevitable as a fortune cookie, was gulab jamun, two perfect balls of fried dough, here turned suddenly glamorous, in a cocktail glass filled with saffron syrup and pistachio dust.
An interest in visual vibration would soon lead him — and us, farther up the ramp — to textured aluminum discs rotating behind sheets of ridged glass, like glamorous saw blades.
The men fight at night, in chic black suits, crashing into doors and windows; the black-on-black color design, with its sparkle of water and broken glass, is a glamorous delight.
Vornado hired Swanke Hayden Connell Architects to design a glamorous-looking tower of stacked glass cubes.
By evening, these foyers are glamorous and spectacular; the all-glass facade gives a spacious view over the city.
