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Zeller & Moye and Katie Paterson align hundreds of glass cylinders for Apple campus sculpture

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Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has collaborated with artist Katie Paterson to create Mirage, a massive sculpture made from glass cylinders for technology company Apple 's campus in California. It is meant to be experiential Mirage derives its name from the effect that the glass gives off when hit by light.

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ACFD Architecture wraps glass home around apple tree in Quebec

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The Apple Tree House is a modernist-style glass residence. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree. Glass walls throughout the public areas of the home give sightlines of the tree and the other living areas from a variety of different positions. General contractor: Marion Gauthier.

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A Glass-Walled Rear Extension Revives a Cramped London Victorian

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Oliver Leech Architects transforms a West London townhouse using reeded glass that suffuses the family home with natural light while maintaining privacy. To add visual impact to the much-improved plan, Oliver Leech Architects worked vertically, adding reeded Linit glass panels to the double-height extension.

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Glass and steel form rooftop Cascada House apartment in Mexico City

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Kitchen cabinetry matches the structural colour scheme. This opens to a generous patio via sliding glass doors. Through large glass panels that open widely, the house integrates with the ambient vegetation, dissolving the boundary between interior and exterior," they explained. Project credits: Contractor: Ricardo Villa.

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A Wood Canopy With Netting Fills Out a Glass-Wrapped New York Apartment

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Continuing to interrogate the fundamental nature of a partition, the installation of a garden folly responds to the inhuman proportions found in the newly combined double-height space, which opens to the city through 22-foot-tall glass walls on three sides, and takes on the scale of landscape. Have one to share? Post it here.

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A Glass Extension Enlivens an Old Georgian-Style Home in Rural England

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The pergola structure provides solar shading to the glazed facade, while triple glazing with solar reflective glass improves the thermal efficiency of the building’s envelope." The redesign by Will Gamble Architects includes a sunken room to overlook the conservation area surrounding the home.

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Atelier Koma creates concrete chapel to offer "separation from the secular world"

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On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side. Read: Nicholas Burns nestles concrete chapel within grounds of Portuguese estate "The 12 funnel-shaped, stained-glass windows serve as metaphors of nature," said Eunsok.