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Surely it doesn't get better than this? Absolutely beautiful.

Wow. That's amazing.

i was there for the opening gala picnic..and it was amazing..

They must go through a buttload of Windex.

This almost seems more Miesiean than Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth house.

Wow, did you see her site?

I want to know what she does for a living, she's on vacation almost every week!!!

Kyle's got a great corporate sponsor for the place there:

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OK, here's the TV spot;

All-white screen,
Music fades in: mid-195Os jazz over cocktail party sounds, glasses, laughter, conversation...

Fade in in black & white: closeup of glamorous brunette: dark lipstsick, cat's eye glasses, drinking champage from gloved hand that also holds cigarette in holder/
cut to hands on piano/
cut to sleek young man in black turtleneck/
cut to Cary Grant laughing/
cut to smoke curling out of beautiful female lips/
cut to bartender pouring martini/
cut to intellectual blonde bending to light her cigarette from man's lighter/
cut to Paul Rudolph gesturing broadly indicating large forms in space/
cut to group of young men laughing near piano, silhoetted through smoke lit from dappled sunlight/
cut to close-up of cigar in crystal asjshtray/
cut to exterior of glass house, filled with party crowd & filled with smoke as..
[muffled piano ends with strong dissonant chord & muffled applause as screen fades to black.

(silence)
Cut to interior of Glass House, brightly lit in black & white/
cut to empty glasses on glass table/
cut to overflowing ashtrays on counter/
cut to NYC phone number written in grime covering window
Cut to man's hand lowering tone arm on record player
(vinyl pops & hisses)

cut to record spinning
(then, Whistle While You Work)

Cut to Philip Johnon in white shirt, dark trousers, bow tie, round glasses & frilly floral apron apron
washing windows & whistling.
The overall scene remains black & white , but as PJ washes the grimy windows, the bright yellow-green of Connecticut woods appears where he wipes./
Cut to PJ smiling broadly.

Cut to PJ cleaning stainless steel refrigerator/
cut to PJ cleaning countertops,
Cut to PJ cleaning glass-top cocktail table/
Cut to PJ copying phone number off window,
Cut to PJ whistling/
Cut to PJ removing apron,
Cut tp PJ's hand hanging apron in round closet module
Cut to closet interior full of frilly floral aprons.
Cut to closing closet door.
(Whistle While You Work ends as door closes)

(brief silence changes to
(Sound of birds singing, footsteps crunching on gravel)
Cut to long shot of Glass House, backlit & sparkling in sunlight, figure of PJ in black suit, walking quickly offscreen right.

White Helvetica title & Windex bottle superimposed over exterior long shot of The Glass House:
WINDEX: Offical Cleaner of The Glass House

You are all free to run with this with no strings attached, except that I get a credit line and a CD of the finished product.

Magnaverde.

Great pictures to start the day with.

I wonder how many birds fly into that house?

A caption from Metropolis's story on the Glass House (http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2379): “The nature comes inside the house,” MacLear says of the glass. Throughout the building’s history, birds have flown into the walls. Two summers ago a turkey broke through a glass panel, leaving behind feathers and other bird detritus.

I just bought tickets this weekend... for next august!

Omigosh Archie, I was just just having a conversation about this, about beautiful glass houses and the amounts of birds that must be sacrificed in order for them to exist.

Unless there's something I don't know, like whistles installed under the eaves or nefarious scents to keep them away.
Does anyone know? Do these glass masterpieces have any built-in bird warnings?

At this glass house, they put up a bunch of coyote cutouts to discourage the turkeys from venturing too close.