A womblike wall of glass sheathes the front of the Loom clubhouse, which was inspired by a Finnish sanatorium of the nineteen-forties.
For fifteen minutes, he held his audience rapt as he explained the rationale of the building, which is to be a slender tower of transparent glass, sheathed in a webbing of white ceramic rods that will form a protective sunscreen.
And it could sport an aluminum skin, to better match the metal and glass sheathed iPhones and iMacs introduced over the past few months.
Nearby, the new turquoise glass-sheathed InterContinental San Francisco, and with its popular lobby bar (Bar 888) and restaurant (Luce), frequently fill with crowds spilling out of the city's newly re-vamped Moscone Convention Center.
High-rise buildings were made practicable by the use of steel structural frames and glass exterior sheathing.
Instead of four walls, it has three and a window; the glass is sheathed in scrim.
On Sept. 14, it will introduce its Velvet Collection, carved mahogany tables and sinuous glass vases sheathed in fleecy stuff.
Designed by the Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye, the building is a glass cube, sheathed in three broad, overlapping aluminum bands coated with bronze.
He had also spent heavily on a new headquarters, a glass- sheathed pyramid with marble floors and a wine cellar.
Right and left readings for oral (temperature oral), axillary (temperature axilla), groin (temperature groin), and rectal (temperature rectal) were taken using sheathed oral/skin mercury-in-glass thermometers and sheathed rectal or oral/skin or rectal Galinstan-in-glass thermometers (respectively).
