Sentence examples for glass shell from inspiring English sources

Lightbulb, electric incandescent lamp based on a glowing metallic filament enclosed within a glass shell filled with an inert gas such as nitrogen.

Yesterday two French architects, Patrick Berger et Jacques Anziutti, unveiled their plans for a giant "glass shell" 11 metres above ground which will top the new-look centre.

Its titanium and glass shell is sunk into the middle of a circular lake that acts a moat, the most anti-urban gesture imaginable.

The shop is designed in Apple's sleek, minimalist style and punctuated by a 40-foot-tall cylindrical glass shell that echoes the company's glass cube on Fifth Avenue in New York.

It expects to move in the first half of next year after it has built out the interior of the glass shell at a cost estimated by Sobrato at $20 million to $25 million.

Gensler's Shanghai Tower, which is set to open to the public soon, has incorporated restaurants, shops, homes, offices and even parks inside a consciously pro-social spiral glass shell.

At Mobilia, the sake cups of Dorothy Feibleman do something similar in ethereal fusions that resemble glass, shells and flower petals but are actually laminated porcelain.

The triangular aluminum sunshades that cover the Esplanade's glass shells have already inspired local residents to call the building "the durian," after the Southeast Asian fruit whose delectable flesh lies inside a spiky husk.

Fragments of found glass, shells and rusty washers from St Ives harbour appear as coloured flecks in the outer layer of her clay (her unusual hybrid making-method combines slip casting and throwing).

Previous iron fertilization experiments had grown diatoms, which have glass shells that protect them from predators.

Thanks to adhesive joining, it is possible to design self-bearing structural glass shells without using any metal frame or connection, thus increasing the degree of transparency.