In particular, she had in mind a circular interior design, reminiscent of what she had seen during a 2005 stay in Dubai at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, an architectural glass landmark in the shape of an ancient Arabian sail.
The most stylish of these hotels is the T Hotel (3) (Via Dei Giudicati; 00 39 070 4740; www.thotel.it), a high-rise steel and glass landmark north of the city centre, where some double rooms are being offered this summer at €125 (£89), including breakfast.
We'd arrived in the dark and it's our first glimpse of downtown Reykjavik, with its mountains that rise straight from the sea and a flashy glass landmark building on the waterfront.
EAT Recently, Celeste Restaurant (Rasinovo nabrezi 80; 420-221-984-160; www.celesterestaurant.cz) introduced frill-free French cuisine, replacing the costly and mediocre Perle de Prague atop the celebrated Dancing Building — Frank Gehry's "Fred and Ginger" glass landmark on the banks of the Vltava River.
The consensus is that the glass landmark is worth $5 million more to Chase, and even more to its next owner, if Mr. Tahari, whose lease runs to 2011, is removed.
Macba is just around the corner, alongside the city's swish Centre of Contemporary Culture (CCCB for short), and these dramatic plate-glass landmarks have become the hub of one of Europe's liveliest artistic districts.
The family said the steel-and-glass landmark deserves a life span that at the very least matches that of the eucalyptus trees that famously share this 1.4-acre meadow overlooking the Pacific.
Now it's a grand, romantic, glass-topped landmark.
"I want to show you something upstairs," Felicella said, hiking up several flights, above the glass-floored landmarked stacks, where verse is a top circulator.
When Mr. Kiefer and Mr. Jones met here this year to select a location, their first idea was to use the large foyer under I. M. Pei's landmark glass pyramid.
On the north side, a stoical rectangular green-glass facade conjures landmarks of late Modernism like the United Nations in New York, with its conflicting messages of social progress and bureaucratic conformity.
