Mr. Taniguchi's palette is minimalist, Mr. Clement explained: silver anodized aluminum panels mark the entrances and cover the canopies over the garden; a translucent milky-looking glass veils the older parts of the Modern; and black granite and gray glass cover the new east and west wings.
There was no significant change in the time-to-ignition with the introduction of the fire retardant glass fiber veil.
A thin glass fiber veil impregnated with ammonium polyphosphate was bonded onto the composite surface intended for heat exposure.
With translucent glass and veil-like metal facades, the architects treat walls as porous membranes between public and private space.
The maze is by Li Xiaodong, a Chinese architect, whose exquisite timber and glass library veiled in a screen of the sticks local villagers collect for firewood in and around Huairou, some two hours drive from Beijing, has drawn visitors around the world since it was opened in 2011.
A structure of tiered glass now both veils and reveals the restored Beaux-Arts facade, making the building itself the museum's largest display.
Kiefer has also contrived to display another palm as if it were the feathers of some avian or even angelic wing; a doubly miraculous apparition which, as outsize quill, writes its own revelatory gospel behind the veiling glass.
DEBATE would be welcome now over the metal and glass screen that will veil the Jazz at Lincoln Center complex to be located in the upper floors of Columbus Center's arc-shaped base.
They will die, therefore, not with that familiar "ping!" and "Oh, drat!", but with a quieter dimming, like the dark condensate veiling on glass that is very old.
It feels as though I am looking at her through a pane of glass – her eyes are veiled, the lines of her face set deliberately not to show too much emotion.
