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Expose something nice in those windows instead of making them blind mirrors.

• sp332 11y ago
  There's too much sunlight coming in. Your options are to cook/blind everyone inside, put something opaque (and visible to the street) inside the windows while blocking the view, or dim the windows and let the occupants see the street.
  • guard-of-terra 11y ago
    You can put something interesting behind the window, then erect a wall, then your regular space goes. Some stores do that.
    • sp332 11y ago
      Is this different from the second option I mentioned? The wall would still block the view of the people inside, right?
      • guard-of-terra 11y ago
        You can make inner wall translucent perhaps?
  • colanderman 11y ago
    Boston's John Hancock tower recently got such a mural, visible from miles away: http://bcheights.com/metro/2015/mural-hancock-tower-public-art/ http://bcheights.com/metro/2015/mural-hancock-tower-public-a... You don't need to block much light to do something like this. Blocking with a bright matte paint an amount of light equal to that which is normally reflected would be quite visible, and would not significantly impact the light entering the building. (This is because you don't normally see reflections of the sun off a glass building, but rather reflections of other buildings, which are matte surfaces. So e.g. a translucent matte mural which blocks 10% of sunlight would be nearly twice as bright as 10% reflections of matte buildings that reflect/scatter 50% of sunlight, while only reducing transmitted light by 10%, from 90% to 81%.)