A system of thin steel purlins runs perpendicularly over the top of the precast roof joists to provide lateral bracing. While glass lies at the heart of all things at the Corning Museum, in this case, ...

There are more than 50,000 objects in the Corning Museum of Glass ... through a ceiling made of 980 skylights — transparent, translucent or opaque glass — onto the art-glass objects below.

Still, that hasn't stopped travellers from heading to the hometown of Corning Inc, the famed creators of CorningWare, Pyrex and these days, fibre optic cables and smartphone displays, to visit its ...

The new campus green is bordered by the 1951 Harrison & Abramowitz Corning Office building ... building of the former Steuben Glass factory adjacent to the museum’s current building.

The Corning Museum of ... The glass-walled new wing, measuring a massive 100,000 square feet, will feature a surfeit of natural light, thanks to diffusing skylights, and a “hot theater ...

It goes without saying that the material of choice for a glass museum is glass. At the Corning Museum of ... Spaced 3 feet, 2' inches apart, the slender beams direct daylight from the skylight-covered ...

Diffused skylights ... glass,” Phifer said. The climate controlled environment controls interior temperature and humidity while carefully eliminating dust and other polluting agents from the ...