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Jon Astbury investigates why they remain so popular. In 2011, British architect Ken Shuttleworth – who designed the Gherkin while at Foster + Partners – declared that "the tall glass box is dead".
(The World's Tallest Glass Tree) The majority of glass in the U.S. ends up in landfills, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where it could take up to 1 million years to decompose.
"We are the glass building right downtown," Friehe says, "the tallest one." He’s right: Aflac lays claim to a portion of the tallest building in Sioux City – the 11-story, 168-foot Ho-Chunk ...