Sentence examples for glass wing from inspiring English sources

A fourth bar has been added with the construction of a new glass wing, with efforts made to improve disabled access.

The new limestone and glass wing, with its innovative "flying carpet" sunscreen canopy and its bladelike pedestrian bridge that connects the museum to Millennium Park, will house (among other things) the Art Institute's architecture and design department, which is growing in scope as well as in size.

For the reporters and editors, the most notable feature of Piano's design was his decision to put most of them in a structure known as the Podium, a separate, four-story glass wing behind the tower, facing onto a courtyard of moss and birch trees.Those involved with the building have made much of how apt a glass-enclosed building is to the openness at the heart of the journalistic mission.

Did you know that glass wing butterflies lay eggs on the nightshade after which the caterpillars feed on the plant and store the poisonous alkaloids in their tissues?

As built, the glass wings have turned to limestone.

"In my house in Oxfordshire, we have this big, beautiful Andrew Logan sculpture of a lovely Pegasus with blue glass wings.

Glass wings rose up on either side of the original building, a trim, red-brick, Georgian-style structure that brought to mind a suburban bank.

Italian architect Manfredi Nicoletti designed the city's concert hall, a mess of turquoise glass wings that writhes like a crash-landed kingfisher near the presidential palace.

At the Montclair, a residential project under construction on Meridian Avenue in South Beach, he added glass wings of low-rise lofts that flank a renovated Art Deco building.

But the most moving sections of Glass Wings are the first, with its series of personal encounters, and the third, "Campbells", about Adcock's early married life and children.

The sensation of ducking beneath the dragonflylike glass wings of the Art Nouveau Abbesses station entrance in Montmartre, and corkscrewing down the spiral staircase that plunges to the platforms 40 yards underground (only to encounter a cordon of ticket-inspectors trapping dizzy fare-skippers at the bottom).