The bridal-white Broad is a special case because the building has two layers: an exterior consisting of more than 2,500 honeycomb panels made of fiberglass-reinforced concrete, called "the veil," which shades an interior shell made of glass.
Designed by Asymptote, the hot architecture firm based in New York, the 499-room Yas Hotel is covered in a shell of diamond-shaped glass panels, like a high-tech veil.
Its components include a chess-piece-like female figure; a hanging, not quite human spine; a soaring, skeletal bird-thing; a ball nested in a spoonlike shell; and a bit of glass ceiling.
This painting focuses on 2 children, one of whom sits on the wet sand inspecting her foot, possibly injured from a jagged shell or broken shard of glass; her companion crouches, peering from under a wide-brimmed hat, perhaps offering comfort.
AMONG the unwritten bylaws of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society on Staten Island is this: Throw nothing away, for there is beauty in these pebbles, in those shells, in this here piece of glass.
Mobiles can be created with pieces of glass, beads, shells, metal, recycled material, toys or cardboard cut into specific designs.
A gold-tone cluster of bangles and beads, for example, looks recognizably Subversive, as does a tangle of pearls (actually shell and glass) attached with a fringe of chains to a pocket-watch frame, floating like a squid underwater.
There are stuffed wild turkeys, a porcelain great-horned owl, Georgian pine cones, cases of Finnish and Venetian glass, kaleidoscopic butterfly displays, mounted and framed, a bark canoe, tortoise shells, tens of thousands of dollars of glass crystal prototypes for Steuben, a Sub-Zero-size jeweler's safe, ferns and a live canary that sings but has no name.
As the first example, internally pressurized thin hybrid general (asymmetric) four-layer cylindrical shells with RS2-C4 boundary conditions, made of glass and carbon fiber reinforced composite layers, are numerically investigated.
Bead, small, usually round object made of glass, wood, metal, nut, shell, bone, seed, or the like, pierced for stringing.
