glass curtain
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They already have the operable windows required in housing, unlike the climate-controlled modern offices sealed behind glass curtain walls.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
The centerpiece of Shigematsu’s design is a new three-story gallery building, sheathed in a glass curtain wall.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
That facade has since been replaced by a glass curtain wall, which admits daylight into the previously dim building and serves as a point of visual and physical connection to the Geffen Theater orb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
Its shimmering glass curtain wall, a feature that later became essential to Bauhaus design, brought together everything Gropius loved.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
It designed two boxes — the main one that holds the offices and a skinnier one attached to the front— that supports a glass curtain.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2016
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