Light goes through gold films even much thicker than 100 atoms. Light passing through gold leaf made by traditional means looks green because of absorption of long wavelengths. Silver does the same thing, turning sunlight blue.
Holy convection cells, Batman!
wow! … thats 2500 x 1600 = $4.000.000 just in gold on the windows …
They probably got a discount by buying in bulk.
that is not how commodity markets are working 
Okay, I had another thought: they didn’t buy the gold, they used bullion already in their vaults. It’s even safer from theft on the windows than it was in the vaults. And they saved $4 million on the cost of the building. Win-win!
In any case, it’s a great looking building.
I’d like to withdraw my savings.
Here are 2 1/2 panes, sir.
Well, it does make their accounting more transparent.
Maybe better for Factual Questions, but:
The bolded made me curious – Is it relatively trivial to reclaim that window-pane gold? I imagine that it’s technologically possible, but would it be more trouble and expense than it’s worth?
I’m no expert but I imagine it would be similar to the processes used to strip gold out of used electronics.
I suspect even easier as glass does not dissolve under aqua regia.
A quick search shows that New Zealand has been mentioned several times, but none with this nugget that came across my FB feed.
There are no signs of human habitation prior to 1314. Wiki
Pretty impressive for an island about the same shape and size as California.
Location, location, location.
Three recent things learned while browsing (à la
those columns Irv Kupcinet would submit in the Chicago Sun-Times “Things I Learned while Looking Up Other Things” when he was out of ideas for a column at deadline), coincidentally all “who rented/sold to whom.”
The Kaiser’s last home after exile to Doorn Netherlands was purchased from Audrey Hepburn’s mother (everyone besides me already knew this).
John and Yoko’s apartment in the Dakota had originally been a sublet from actor Robert Ryan. Some of us may regret that Robert Ryan has been forgotten. Believe it or not, by that same dynamic, John Lennon will also eventually fade from the public consciousness.
The chapel whose construction was the main plot point of the Sidney Poitier film “Lillies of the Field” was located on ranch land owned by Linda Ronstadt’s father. It was taken down after filming.
Not real estate-related, seeing golfer Lee Travino on MeTV ads for an arthritis clinic chain, I discovered that his career received an early boost from golf enthusiast and legendary gambler “Titanic Thompson.” Thompson was rumored, with strong support, to have had Arnold Rothstein assassinated. Rothstein was rumored, with strong support, to have “fixed” the 1919 World Series.
I learned the other day that Bruce Lee had the sweat glands in his armpits removed. I didn’t even know that was possible!
I believe those columns were written by Sydney J. Harris. As an impressionable teenager reading his stuff (why?) I referred to him as Pompous J.
Today I learned that four-legged chickens happen:
Polymelia (supernumerary limbs) happens in other animals too, including people. Frank Lentini, who appeared on the back cover of Alice In Chains’ 1995 album, had three legs…and two sets of genitals:
That’s not the first strange thing to come out of Kairi.
Ouch! The pane!
If it comes to an ass-kicking contest, I know who my money is on.