Isn’t glass too fragile for a monument?
The public perception of glass is typically associated with very thin layers of glass, such as in windows, eyewear and drinking glasses. If you were to slice a thin layer of granite from a slab and throw a rock at it, the stone would break much like glass does. Adversely, if you cast a slab of glass, it behaves very similarly to granite. Did you know that granite is called a super saturated silica stone, often containing up to 85% silica? Cast glass is an excellent material for exterior architectural components, and though it looks quite different from granite, it is stronger than many quarried stones.
