Not transparent enough.SIR: I am confused by your cover and contents of the August issue which is supposed to be devoted to transparency. That big cone Big Cone is a geyser in the West Thumb Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. It is a large sinter cone that rises from Yellowstone Lake. At times, the water level rises high enough to submerge the cone completely. References
stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. as the article states: what has this to do with transparency? The laboratory block by Sauerbruch Hutton at Biberach is clad in glass panes so deeply coloured that they must often seem translucent at best to people inside the building looking out. Ando's museum in Fort Worth has such heavy and stolid stol·id adj. stol·id·er, stol·id·est Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive: "the incredibly massive and stolid bureaucracy of the Soviet system" glass mullion mullion (mŭl`yən), in architecture, a slender, upright intermediate member that subdivides an opening, as a division between panes of a window or between adjacent windows. detailing that it can scarcely be called transparent. In fact the issue was hardly about transparency--it turned out to be concerned with show-off uses of glass. Where was a thoughtful analysis of the nature of modern transparent materials (many are available besides glass), and where were ideas about how to develop new materials in the future? Yours etc ANATOLIE FRILS Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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