Editing Mirror (section)

=== Architecture ===
[[File:Mirrored building in Manhattan, 2008.tif|thumb|Mirrored building in Manhattan - 2008]]
[[File:Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-20, DD 05.jpg|thumb|[[Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)|401 N. Wabash Ave.]] reflects the skyline along the [[Chicago River]] in downtown Chicago]]
{{See also|Architectural glass}}
Mirrors are a popular design-theme in architecture, particularly with [[Modern architecture|late modern]] and [[Post-modern architecture|post-modernist]] high-rise buildings in major cities. Early examples include the Campbell Center in [[Dallas]], which opened in 1972,<ref name=brown2012/> and the [[John Hancock Tower]] (completed in 1976) in Boston.

More recently, two skyscrapers designed by architect [[Rafael Viñoly]], the [[Vdara]] in Las Vegas and [[20 Fenchurch Street]] in London, have experienced unusual problems due to their concave curved-glass exteriors acting as respectively cylindrical and spherical reflectors for sunlight. In 2010, the ''Las Vegas Review Journal'' reported that sunlight reflected off the Vdara's south-facing tower could singe swimmers in the hotel pool, as well as melting plastic cups and shopping bags; employees of the hotel referred to the phenomenon as the "Vdara death ray",<ref name=vdara2010/> aka the "[[fryscraper]]." In 2013, sunlight reflecting off 20 Fenchurch Street melted parts of a [[Jaguar Cars|Jaguar car]] parked nearby and scorching or igniting the carpet of a nearby barber-shop.<ref name=fench2013/> This building had been nicknamed the "walkie-talkie" because its shape was supposedly similar to a certain model of two-way radio; but after its tendency to overheat surrounding objects became known, the nickname changed to the "walkie-scorchie".