Walking on Air: Thrilling Sao Paulo Views from a 42-nd Floor Glass SkywalkSponsored ContentSave this picture!Courtesy of EastmanWalking on a glass floor is a unique experience that blends awe with a touch of unease. The transparency creates the illusion of emptiness beneath your feet, despite the firm support, generating a visual disconnection that makes each step feel tentative, as if you were floating or crossing an invisible bridge. Although glass is engineered for safety, the mind often associates it with fragility, producing a curious tension between trust and doubt. It's this mix of emotions that makes walking on a glass floor so unforgettable.Modern glass floors are remarkably strong, thanks to advanced materials and manufacturing processes. Typically made from laminated glasscomposed of multiple layers of glass bonded with a durable interlayerthey are designed to prevent shattering into sharp fragments. In terms of load capacity, a well-designed glass floor can support weights equivalent to or greater than traditional flooring materials, often exceeding 500 kilograms per square meter or more, depending on the design and application.Step onto a glass floor, and you're not just walkingyou're floating, suspended between reality and illusion in a thrilling feat of modern design.Glass floors are widely used in structures where aesthetics and functionality intersect, allowing natural light to pass through to spaces below. On ship decks, for instance, these floors offer panoramic views of the sea while letting light illuminate interior areas, creating a more open and inviting atmosphere. Additionally, walkways and observation decks are among the most common applications of glass flooring. In these cases, glass transforms the visual experience, enabling visitors to walk over the void, evoking a sense of lightness and floating while enjoying uninterrupted views of the landscape below. The use of glass in such spaces not only fosters a stronger connection with the natural environment but also contributes to a unique and thrilling experience, combining safety with innovative design.The Sampa Sky, located on the 42nd floor of Mirante do Valethe tallest building in So Paulois an example of a tourist attraction that blends structural innovation with cutting-edge engineering. Featuring retractable glass platforms that extend up to 2 meters beyond the faade, the project pushes technical boundaries to offer a one-of-a-kind experience 150 meters above the ground. The platforms are made from Guardian glass with 10 mm thickness and three layers of 10 mm structural Saflex PVB interlayers, resulting in a laminated system capable of supporting loads of up to 30 tons. This strength was achieved through a rigorous design and manufacturing process, ensuring structural safety along with high transparency and durability.Save this picture!Save this picture!Additionally, the faade incorporates two layers of 6 mm Guardian Sunlight glass with Saflex Clear interlayers, providing extra protection against impacts and weather conditions. Each deck weighs approximately 4 tons, and its technical development took eight months to ensure the feasibility and safety of the retractable systemthe first of its kind in the world. Material selection was critical:Saflex PVB interlayers offer intrinsic properties such as solar control, UV protection, and edge delamination resistance, ensuring longevity and low maintenance costs. Another notable aspect was the integration of the decks with the existing building, which required engineering solutions to preserve the original faade while maintaining structural stability. The attachment systems use high-precision metal structures designed to evenly distribute the loads applied by the decks and minimize stress on the external walls.The combination of advanced engineering and functional design also considered environmental impact.Saflex PVB interlayersassist with thermal and acoustic control, reducing the building's energy consumption and enhancing visitor comfort. Additionally, the laminated glass was treated to minimize glare and ensure perfect visibility even under intense sunlight. These technical details reflect the project's commitment to delivering a safe, functional, and visually stunning experience.Save this picture!The use of glass flooring transcends aesthetic innovation, offering a sensory and visual experience that merges boldness with safety. The fusion of transparency and the resilience of advanced materials redefines how we interact with spaces, creating environments where the sensation of floating is both an emotional thrill and a technological milestone. Projects like Sampa Sky exemplify how cutting-edge engineering can transform a simple walk into an adventure, pushing technical limits and exploring new dimensions of architectural design. By integrating structural safety, aesthetics, and functionality, these installations not only provide breathtaking views but also open new horizons for modern architecture, where innovation meets user experience in unexpected and unforgettable ways.Image gallerySee allShow lessAbout this authorEduardo SouzaAuthorCite: Eduardo Souza. "Walking on Air: Thrilling Sao Paulo Views from a 42-nd Floor Glass Skywalk" 27 Dec 2024. ArchDaily. 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Squid Game season 2 isnt here to give us resolution. Rather, it follows a similar trajectory of The Hunger Games Catching Fire: Now wealthy Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returns to the games, desperate to shut them down once and for all. The stakes are technically the same as the first season you win or you die but another round adds to the pressure. Now he knows the odds, and so do we; extratextually, we know that this version of Squid Game has to up the ante for Gi-hun in order to do it for us in the audience.And it does, with the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) accepting Gi-huns challenge to go back in the game, and opting to go in alongside him. In a way this is a repeat of what we saw in season 1, with Gi-hun unknowingly befriending and protecting a member of the games establishment. But Lee Byung-huns and Lee Jung-jaes performance brings the dynamic and the themes of the show to a new level. This is Squid Game, in radically new form. And creator Hwang Dong-hyuk asking the big questions.The seasons events technically flow out of Gi-huns decision at the end of season 1 to not get on the plane and visit his kid and go off into the sunset with his billions, but rather to remain haunted by his time in the game but it finds its footing in his final conversation with Oh Il-nam (O Yeong-su), the creator of the games who played alongside him. There, Il-nam lays out a belief that drove him to create the games: People are inherently greedy and corrupt, and the game is simply a way of letting people indulge their natural impulses in order to at least provide some good fun, and take the trash out of the wider public.Gi-hun, of course, vehemently disagrees. And spiritually, the show seems inclined to agree with him: Gi-hun wins Il-nams bet about someone helping a drunk man out of the cold before midnight, and Il-nam dies in his weird, desolate office space. But, as that final beat of Squid Game season 1 taunted, that such evil could prey on the world was far too haunting for Gi-hun to just walk off.Season 2 isnt just built on the usual sequel stuff of getting Gi-hun in the game and trying to bring it down. The season is structured to allow Gi-hun to explore the question of what really drives the games, whether these are really bad people or just people driven to bad things. Hwang elegantly explores those questions through the gulf between Gi-hun and the Front Man even when the former doesnt know its being tested at all.The beauty of the seasons seven episodes is in how seamlessly it weighs the meaty themes. Gi-hun makes it his mission to bring a halt to the game, and enlists a small team of helpers to help sway the crowd around the votes. The Front Man now disguised as Player 001, and using the name Oh Young-il approaches him and pours honey into his ear. But all the while, he continues the grander conversation of what the games are driven by. As Young-il, he says Gi-huns success is what convinced him to stay, that he trusts his judgment. But after voting to keep the game going once, he votes no every time, verbally and physically supporting Gi-huns agenda.Its never enough, which feels poignant. Its not that people are inherently good or bad, but they are desperate and trapped. Gi-hun is the one fighting an uphill battle here, and even with the guy running the thing on his side (ostensibly, at least) the game goes on.At a press event earlier this year, Lee Byung-hun told Polygon that the performance was a challenging one, where he was balancing his personas, including the Front Mans actual backstory as Hwang In-ho, through just his eyes. So at times, I would have to switch on and off from my eyes having to be that of Young-il and then the next glance, having to be that of In-Ho, and having to switch that immediately on and off with each fleeting moment.Having his shift be that small is a constant strength of Squid Game season 2. You never lose the character, whether hes docile as Young-il or sinister and imposing as the Front Man. And it bolsters the shows grander conversation where a weaker show might fail: were able to see the places he laces his lies with the truth of his own life, and how thats corrupted him so deeply he cant see Gi-huns hope as anything other than naivet.Which, unlike so many sequel equivalents, actually does make Squid Game season 2 feel worth another go at the games. Beyond Gi-huns desperation, the second season explores a variety of peoples reasons for going in the games the hope to pay off medical treatments, gambling debts, or just provide for an actual future among the capitalistic stakes of the real world. Plus, with our first look behind the scenes at some of the guards motivations, Squid Game actually feels like its building to something bigger (presumably in a third season that will feel more like part 2 of this season).As their stories all meld and swirl, Squid Game finds a groove, constantly dancing between the despair of their current predicament and the hopelessness of the life that brought them here. Its a smarter way to advance a point, not withholding answers so much as miserably asking more questions. Its characters are straightforward, but they help focus a season that could otherwise be a rehash of basic themes.And as much as Gi-hun and Young-il want to help, the Front Man lets the anguish around them speak for itself. As they witness or even perpetrate one heinous act after another, Squid Games players are looking for easy solutions in a world that has none of that. Instead of running from that conversation (or simply repeating itself), Squid Game looks us square in the face and asks us why we think were any better off.

The death of Adobe Flash on Dec. 31, 2020, may have marked the end of a great era of internet creativity but one of its most significant triumphs is still around. In an archival feat for the ages, HomestarRunner.com still lives on YouTube.In an age before algorithms or social media, Mike and Matt Chapman went viral the old-fashioned way uploading good stuff at a reliable pace that was so quotable it rewired the brains of an entire generation. All of Homestar Runners bits, japes, and inside jokes were heavily regurgitative of 1990s media cartoons, video games, action movies but while the flagship series of the website was the Strong Bad Emails, I have a dark horse contender for the best of HomestarRunner.com.With the Teen Girl Squad, the Chapmans turned their eyes to the wide world of Shows With Stuff Executives Think Girls Like, and its kind of the tightest bit they ever uploaded.The conceit: the ongoing adventures of ambitious Cheerleader, overachieving So and So, drab Whats Her Face, and unpredictable The Ugly One with each episode presenting some kind of challenge (usually to get one or several boys). But the framing device of Teen Girl Squad was a comic made and narrated by Strong Bad, first as a challenge and then, its implied, because he just enjoys making it.This creates a teen girl show as interpreted or perpetrated, honestly by Strong Bads rather teen-boy-inspired capacity for violent doodles and paucity of artistic talent, a show where several or all of its stars meet some kind of grisly Looney Tunes death in each episode. You wouldnt think that formula would hit on any absolutely piercing observations of teenagehood, and yet, I do remember the age when I was too cool for Nick at Nite but also considered WB shows the pinnacle of sophistication.I also recall being an awkward girl wearing pants and a shapeless top, harboring dreams of dating Sci-fi Greg, or the equivalent D&D rule-quoting and only-mildly-misogynistic-by-2000s-standards boy. Sure, sure, America Ferreras Barbie speech is good, but have you seen the episode where the Girl Squad tries to form a band and So and So suggests they call themselves Smartly Pretty?Modern kids may have had Riverdale, but I had my own absurdist teen media pastiche, still available in bite-sized YouTube segments to this day. Also, it gave us the phrase Taking the vowels out of words doesnt always make them cool. If thats not peak internet prescience, I dont know what is.

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The brands reinvigorated space, La Casa Dragones, was recently awarded the prestigious Crateurs Design Award and LIV Hospitality Design Awards thanks to a collaboration between multidisciplinary design studio Meyer Davis, leading design curator Ana Elena Mallet, and craftsman curator Raul Cabra.MAY: Michelin-Starred Chef Elena Reygadas Partners With R+D.Lab for Rosetta CollectionJust this May, Michelin-recognized chef Elena Reygadas was celebrated as one of Mexicos top culinary talents, among other things, which included various accolades and a collaboration with R+D.Lab. Together, the creative partners drew upon a shared vision for glassware expressive of everyday luxury. The resulting Rosetta Collection comprises the Rosetta Sour, the Rosetta Martini, and the Rosetta Acqua, each handcrafted in Italy with Borosilicate glass, and shaped through a traditional mouth-blowing technique.JUNE: Capturing Taste: A Visual Journey Through 2024s Culinary Award SeasonTaste is deeply personal and highly subjective, whether in the context of flavor or aesthetic preference, and varies widely by human experience. Because of this, awarding excellence in the culinary world presents a unique challenge and an elastic palate. Interested in broadening your range? Experience new flavors through the accolades and celebrations at the James Beard Awards, The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants, and the 2024 Michelin Star recipients, as well as some winners of the Pink Lady Food Photography Awards. Theres a little bit of something for everyone.JULY: Rose McAdoo Shares Climate Change Science With Her CakesClimate change is a heavy topic, but artist Rose McAdoo makes discussion of this existential crisis more digestible through her tasty confections. From crafting cake atop a glacier to whipping up treats while out at sea, each creation tells a story with the goal of communicating information that might affect action. Playful recipes and hopeful desserts are sciences new methods of reaching stomachs and changing minds.AUGUST: Delectable Coconut Tapioca Pudding With Passion Fruit Gele [Recipe]Food fragrance, taste, and even texture seemingly have the power to fuel our imaginations with summertime bearing the sweetest associations. And for some, even sweeter memories. This piece mixes personal notes from the margins of Girards storied romance with foods and a recipe that is equal parts refreshing and nostalgic. Tropical fruits take center stage in this recipe for a delicious make-ahead dessert.SEPTEMBER: Rokusho: At the Crossroads of Soft Brutalist Design + Culinary Creativity in LASome consider exotic food experiences to be those which showcase cuisine in its purest form, while others enjoy the novelty of fusion. If you happen to appreciate both approaches, Rokusho, the newest culinary sensation to hit Los Angeles, offers a menu featuring beloved Japanese classics alongside inventive new dishes tailored to local tastes. Its a sensorial experience worth the wait from the minds of Michelin-starred chefs.OCTOBER: Designing Delight: The Artful Cakes of Yip.Studio and A.R.D BakeryFood has always been a canvas for artistic experimentation and conduit for emotional expression. But recent years have seen it becoming much more mainstream, a bit more accessible, and of increasing allure to professionals looking to cross over from other fields. The cultural shifts reflect a curious consumer base with a taste for visually striking food experiences. Amid these upward trends, cake artists Alison Dunlop of A.R.D Bakery and Amy Yip of Yip.Studio are redefining what it means to create a cool confection.NOVEMBER: 2024 Best Modern Gifts for Cooks, Chefs, and the Culinary CuriousFor culinary curious friends or family, offering something delicious displayed with something cool the host can keep is a winner move. Whether you are shopping for someone early on in their culinary adventure or for the person who has every cooking gadget, Design Milks TJ Girard shared 10 modern gift ideas to make any foodie happy this holiday season.Check out the rest of Design Milks end of the year coveragehere!