Glassed In: High-Rise Living, Corporate Style

“In New York City, glass has long been considered a workplace material – honest, transparent and spare, as befits containers of capitalism. There’s rarely much to see: Accounts Payable in one skyscraper looks pretty much like Accounts Payable in another. But in the past few years, as the home and office have merged thanks to portable gadgetry, apartment buildings have come to look like corporate headquarters, with their floor-to-ceiling, column-to-column windows.”