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The largest load-bearing glass structure in the world, the new TKTS booth in Times Square supports glass benches atop two-inch-thick windows.
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The ticket windows of the TKTS booth underneath the glass benches. For reinforcements, engineers at Dewhurst MacFarlane used a plastic film called SentryGlas Plus. The film is 100 times the strength of typical laminates and binds sheets together into structural pieces that are five times as strong as a wooden frame.
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