In those years, people dealt with the vacant houses by burning them down, a practice that became so routine in the 1980s that the mob made a business of it, stripping glass doorknobs and mahogany mantelpieces before setting the blaze in a process known as "scarfing," said Sherry Linkon, a co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State.
SAYVILLE Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts Gallery "Strip Cutting Glass Art".
The couple hired the Japanese architect Hiromi Tsuruta, who painted the concrete outer wall the color of morels and cut it with a low strip of glass.
Instead, Calatrava had substituted a less costly mechanism, whereby a strip of glass panels bisecting the roof could open up on September 11th or on other occasions.
Mr Pennac throws wide the windows to facilitate their passage, but there are always some that hit the thin strip of glass that does not open.
The twilight effect is aggravated by a long strip of glass, set into the pavilion's outer wall, and a vertical window in one corner.
A strip of glass at the top of a partition separates the bedroom from a bathroom, making each feel larger and balancing the light.
Slab, the first supper club, will be more radical, a two-story concrete box on the east end of the Sunset Strip with glass walls facing east and west and a forty-five-hundred-square-foot roof deck.
From inside, the Oculus is as eye-popping as its name implies, consisting of ribs of steel, interleaved with windows, that reach to an arching strip of glass, a hundred and sixty feet overhead: a spine seen in negative.
(Some houses built in the 1940s also incorporate perky art-deco elements: semi-circular balconies; a long, vertical strip comprising glass panes for the stairwell; porthole-shaped windows; and the famous sunrise motif on grilles and gates).
