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The New York Times reports:
Engineers, architects and fabricators, aided by materials scientists and software designers, are building soaring facades, arching canopies and delicate cubes, footbridges and staircases, almost entirely of glass. They're laminating glass with polymers to make beams and other components stronger and safer... and analyzing every square inch of a design to make sure the stresses are within precise limits. And they are experimenting with new materials and methods that could someday lead to glass structures that are unmarked by metal or other materials."Ultimately what we're all striving for is an all-glass structure," said James O'Callaghan of Eckersley O'Callaghan Structural Design, who has designed what are perhaps the world's best-known glass projects, the staircases that are a prominent feature of every Apple Store.Check out the photo.
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