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 A piece of roof glass is flown in by crane and cable to become part of this gradually materializing glass corridor. The corridor's wall panels, which weigh on average 1,400 pounds apiece, are 10.6 feet high and vary in width from 10 to 12 feet, depending on where they fit within the building's curve.
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Come to the Northern Virginia construction site at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus on any clear morning and you'll see an aerial ballet. Enormous sheets of glass glint in the sun as they rise from the ground and sweep through the air. Grasped by a dozen huge suction cups, the flying glass swings gracefully on thick cables suspended from the arm of a towering red crane. Gliding up and then gently down, the panes float into the outstretched hands of the hardhatted men waiting on a deck of the massive structure, who situate each window into its prescribed place. continued...
Photos: Paul Fetters
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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
Winter 2005, pages 31–33.
©2005 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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