By comparison, he says, a traditional glass wall could run closer to $100 per square foot. Advertisement “The glass blocks have an air pocket in the middle of them,” explains Swartz.

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Central to the Honeycomb's design of is the use of a specially engineered concrete “superslab” which is able to cantilever over 17 feet without wall brackets below.

SGPC is going to cover the historic structure at the sacred place which is called Gurdwara Manji Sahib and related to Guru Arjan Dev, with a concrete slab and glass walls in the name of preservation.