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  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings and were just being built when I traveled to Malaysia for another story.  Walking around downtown, I could see these strange mechanical arms protruding from the tops of the towers with these men in strange buckets that descended like mechanical spiders from the upper reaches of the building.  There are several teams of fearless window washers employed to clean the tower windows.  Like the painters who paint the Golden Gate Bridge, once they finish they start right back at the other end.  It takes a month to wash the windows of one building.
    Petronas Towers 0002 Window.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings and were just being built when I traveled to Malaysia for another story.  Walking around downtown, I could see these strange mechanical arms protruding from the tops of the towers with these men in strange buckets that descended like mechanical spiders from the upper reaches of the building.  There are several teams of fearless window washers employed to clean the tower windows.  Like the painters who paint the Golden Gate Bridge, once they finish they start right back at the other end.  It takes a month to wash the windows of one building.
    scf4327-727petronas towers 0002 wind...jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings and were just being built when I traveled to Malaysia for another story.  Walking around downtown, I could see these strange mechanical arms protruding from the tops of the towers with these men in strange buckets that descended like mechanical spiders from the upper reaches of the building.  There are several teams of fearless window washers employed to clean the tower windows.  Like the painters who paint the Golden Gate Bridge, once they finish they start right back at the other end.  It takes a month to wash the windows of one building.
    scf4327-727_Petronas Towers 0002 Win...jpg
  • The Window Treelike most Sequoia gigantias have been struck by lighting and much of the interior is burnt out sometimes leaving only a thin crust of wood to sustain life.  Andy Taylor looks out its window.
    Tree Climb0041Window Tree.jpg
  • Window boxes in guest bedroom.
    Corbero Xavier 0027.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    Petronas Towers 0005 Window.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    Petronas Towers 0004 Window.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    Petronas Towers 0001 Window.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    scf4327-728petronas towers 0005 wind...jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    scf4327-728_Petronas Towers 0005 Win...jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    fct4383-892_Petronas Towers 0004 Win...jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    Petronas Towers 0003 Window.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Peli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    Petronas Towers 0043 window.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Peli are the world’s tallest buildings.
    scf4327-732petronas towers 0043 wind...jpg
  • Windows in meditation room at Genkoan Temple in Kyoto Japan.  The round window is called "Window of the Spiritual Awakening."  The nearby Square window is called the "Window of the Trouble" as it is a symbolic expression of human life representative of the 4 pains of mankind, birth aging and disease and death.
    Genkoan Temple001.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Peli are the world’s tallest buildings and were just being built when I traveled to Malaysia for another story.  Walking around downtown, I could see these strange mechanical arms protruding from the tops of the towers with these men in strange buckets that descended like mechanical spiders from the upper reaches of the building.  There are several teams of fearless window washers employed to clean the tower windows.  Like the painters who paint the Golden Gate Bridge, once they finish they start right back at the other end.  It takes a month to wash the windows of one building.
    Roads 0010.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Peli are the world’s tallest buildings and were just being built when I traveled to Malaysia for another story.  Walking around downtown, I could see these strange mechanical arms protruding from the tops of the towers with these men in strange buckets that descended like mechanical spiders from the upper reaches of the building.  There are several teams of fearless window washers employed to clean the tower windows.  Like the painters who paint the Golden Gate Bridge, once they finish they start right back at the other end.  It takes a month to wash the windows of one building.
    Roads 0010-2.jpg
  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Peli are the world’s tallest buildings and were just being built when I traveled to Malaysia for another story.  Walking around downtown, I could see these strange mechanical arms protruding from the tops of the towers with these men in strange buckets that descended like mechanical spiders from the upper reaches of the building.  There are several teams of fearless window washers employed to clean the tower windows.  Like the painters who paint the Golden Gate Bridge, once they finish they start right back at the other end.  It takes a month to wash the windows of one building.
    Petronas Towers 0042.jpg
  • A member of the Christian clergy stands before a stained glass window in his Church.
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  • A member of the Christian clergy stands before a stained glass window in his Church.
    scf4374-179_Religion 0001.jpg
  • Several hundred potted plants line the outside passageways leading to the compounds many buildings.
    Corbero Xavier 0030.jpg
  • Co-founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man.
    Gates Bill 0030.jpg
  • Co-founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man.
    Gates Bill 0030a Closeup.jpg
  • Co-founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man.
    Gates Bill 0030-2.jpg
  • Decorative boxes from around the world next to a bedside guest bedroom.  Small window box above the pillow close with a metal window shade.
    Corbero Xavier 0028.jpg
  • Xavier Corbero's Master Bedroom Office Window with woman in marble sculpture.
    Corbero Xavier 0018.jpg
  • Xavier Corbero's Master Bedroom Office Window with woman's form in marble sculpture.
    Corbero Xavier 0017.jpg
  • Hyperion's deckhouse windows are hurricane-proof, provide UV protection and can come completely down to create an alfresco atmosphere and are air-sealed  Portside deckhouse photographed near Cabo San Lucas
    Hyperion 0012 Deckhouse.jpg
  • Photography is usually one of the professions where, if you do a bad job nobody dies but when I photographed the Chrysler Building there was every chance that if we messed up – statistically someone was going to get hurt.  We fabricated a scaffold with adjustable platforms to mount four motorized Hasselblad cameras and hang it over the edge of the Chrysler Building to get this viewpoint. One of my assistants, a bit of an electronics buff wired all the cameras to a single switching box so I could fire them all with one button. It so happened that the previous tenants had vacated the week before so we had the whole wing of the floor to ourselves.  We strung climbing rope through the windows and around the building as a main lifeline and clipped ourselves onto the line with harnesses.  The whole heavy contraption was lowered and raised about thirty times over rush hour pedestrian traffic some 57 stories above Lexington Avenue as we changed film backs and adjusted exposures and made slight adjustments in camera angles.  Even though we were all roped and harnessed in, if anything fell, say a film back or film slide and hit someone it would have been a disaster.<br />
We photographed the building over several days during a couple of sunsets and sunrises, even at different times of year but the best shot was taken the first day.  It was one of those miraculously rare clear days when the pollution was blown out to sea leaving metropolis looking like it just got out of the bath.  I used Tungsten film to accentuate the blues of magic hour when two divergent spectrums of light, blues and reds, coverag
    Chrysler 0001 Guardian.jpg
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