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Keep up to dateMirona, launched by Schott, is a decorative glass that switches from transparent to reflective according to the lighting conditions.
Each panel of glass has a coating that looks like a silvery mirror when placed in front of a dark background, but becomes transparent when the background is light or if backlighting is applied.
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Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, 鈥榙ragon-tailed鈥� cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK鈥檚 13th Maggie鈥檚 Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
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