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Examples
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It looks the same, the heavy glass-and-metal door, the tiled art deco passageway, the box elevator and narrow staircase.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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It looks the same, the heavy glass-and-metal door, the tiled art deco passageway, the box elevator and narrow staircase.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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It looks the same, the heavy glass-and-metal door, the tiled art deco passageway, the box elevator and narrow staircase.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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The Queen called a national holiday, councils held street parties in his honour and the City erected a 600ft glass-and-metal statue in the shape of one of his Flavour Shakers known today as "the Gherkin", after one of his favourite sandwich fillings.
Charlie Brooker: Jamie's Dream School – a youth club with David Starkey instead of a pool table 2011
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Suddenly this glass-and-metal box feels new and powerful, as if all it needed was a little air, a little breathing room.
Mies's modernist D.C. library building is getting a complementary companion 2010
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But this is what humanity in Southern California had been reduced to, angry rats trapped in isolated glass-and-metal cages, making twisted faces and obscene gestures at each other as they inched forward along the hot asphalt, vulnerable and afraid.
Babylon Nights Daniel Depp 2010
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Others were covered with unbelievably intricate carvings or etchings, and Bowman could not help contrasting them with the stark glass-and-metal boxes of his own world.
Tin 2010
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Let's see: Three-story brick building; enormous, convex, glass-and-metal jackknife into the sky; four-story brick building.
Absurd Juxtaposition on Third Avenue Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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Mr. Trichet made the comments in an interview in his office atop the bank's 37-story glass-and-metal tower ahead of the 10th anniversary of the central bank.
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Their 2,000-square-foot homes are built from four vertically stacked steel boxes -- connected by a precut glass-and-metal staircase.
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