These include angle selective glazing, light guiding shades, vertical and horizontal light pipes, switchable glazing and angle selective skylights.
Several innovative daylighting systems such as light shelves, fixed and movable reflective louvres, reflective sills, prismatic glazing, light pipes, etc., have been developed to address this problem.
Windows in the cafeteria provide views of the new play area and the neighborhood, and glazed "light boxes" funnel light into classrooms from two sides and the roof.
He fumbled for something on his desk, sifting through the papers there until he held up a single sheet, transparent in the light glazing the windows.
While the Greek standards baklava and galaktoboureko are well executed, the yogurt (imported from Greece, Mr. Sarris told me) is exceptional: dense and complex, tart and almost fruity, with a light glazing of honey and a dusting of nuts.
A stunning new icon for the city of Marseilles designed by Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti, the MuCEM's most recognizable feature is its delicate façade, an intricate network of concrete glazing resembling a light mesh that dematerializes the structure.
Sudbury Town, the first station to be rebuilt in 1931, formed a template for many of the other new stations that followed: a tall rectangular brick box with a concrete flat roof and panels of vertical glazing to allow light into the interior.
In the fall recurrent rains — water meeting water — are like layers of kinetic glazing, breaking light up, so the city becomes incoherent scintillation.
Due to the transparent glazing at light tube base the sunbeams illuminate the interior working plane or floor with circular bands.
Electrochromic devices can vary the throughput of solar energy and visible light in glazing for buildings, which are then able to combine improved energy efficiency with enhanced indoor comfort and convenience.
Look out for features such as 100% acid free conservation mat boards, reversible-mounting adhesives, and ultraviolet light filtering glazing.
