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  • The list includes the sales of a home on the dunes in Amagansett, L.I., for $6.5 million, a $27.6 million penthouse loft in SoHo and a modernist, glass-box office building on Fifth Avenue for $57 million.

    Designer Tailors Penthouse Deal Josh Barbanel 2011

  • AC has enabled such modern enormities as glass-box architecture.

    The Big Chill: Giving AC the Cold Shoulder 2010

  • So one evening I was at work on the fourth floor of a large glass-box building, and heard crickets - arrgh!

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • The glass-box design was supposed to give the building a look of sleek elegance, but all the makeshift barriers made the interior look like a tenement in Brasilia.

    Insignificant Others Stephen McCauley 2010

  • And here was Mies with his glass-box house to put a Mrs Farnsworth in as some sort of living female sculpture. 1 Which is strange, unless we interpret "living machine"  in some metaphysical sense.

    the machine to live 2010

  • Of the 1,307,000 square feet of total space, 174,000 feet belong to premier retailers in the building's ground and first-floor, glass-box units, such as H&M, Home Depot, and the Container Store.

    The Neighborhood Changer 2009

  • Vornado erected another two-story, glass-box space at 968 Third Avenue, at 58th Street, to fill out the neighborhood, both in design and clientele; and it owns the brushed brass and limestone Architects & Designers building at 150 East 58th street.

    The Neighborhood Changer 2009

  • A minimalist Philip Johnson-style glass-box house could be accented with them successfully.

    DOUBLE PINK KNOCKOUT ROSES FOR BEGINNERS Pooky 2009

  • Vornado erected another two-story, glass-box space at 968 Third Avenue, at 58th Street, to fill out the neighborhood, both in design and clientele; and it owns the brushed brass and limestone Architects & Designers building at 150 East 58th street.

    The Neighborhood Changer 2009

  • Of the 1,307,000 square feet of total space, 174,000 feet belong to premier retailers in the building's ground and first-floor, glass-box units, such as H&M, Home Depot, and the Container Store.

    The Neighborhood Changer 2009

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