About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 116. Chapters: Buildings and structures made of snow or ice, Glass architecture, Iron and steel buildings, Stone buildings, Wooden buildings and structures, Adobe, Stained glass, Igloo, Crown Fountain, British and Irish stained glass, Slab hut, Bush carpentry, Glaspaleis, Rose window, Project Habakkuk, Architectural glass, Leadlight, Ice sculpture, Abbot Pass hut, Grand Canyon Skywalk, Crystal Palace railway station, J&R Lamb Studios, Ice hotel, Nissen hut, Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival, Snowking Winter Festival, Float glass, 3 Hardman Street, Dieterich Spahn, Snowman, Icehotel, World Ice Art Championships, Ice palace, Bellman hangar, Newcastle City Library, Glass Pavilion, Sunroom, Quinzhee, Snow fort, Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Quonset hut, Cathedral glass, Plate glass university, Glass tiles, Glaspalast, Snow sculpture, Self-framing metal buildings, Pipestone Indian School Superintendent's House, The Glasshouse, Glass Age Development Committee, Tin tabernacle, Snow cave, Fanlight, Buchanan Street subway station, ICIUM, James K. M. Cheng, Glass-bottom boat, Glass brick, SnowCastle of Kemi, Snowzilla, Glazing, Glass floor, National Glass Association, Ice bar, Shading coefficient, Glass mullion system, Rippled glass, Buswartehobel, Dymaxion Deployment Unit, Snice, Stone House, Gaiola. Excerpt: Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago's Millennium Park, which is located in the Loop community area. Designed by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, it opened in July 2004. The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15.2 m) tall, and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on their inward faces. Construction and design of the Crown Fountain cost $17 million....
