CanadianMe
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Head Office of the Royal Bank of Canada. Each pane of Glass is sheeted in real gold.

Hah, nice.. I wonder how much gold was actually used.. Hmm...
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Good old wiki... Just incase anyone else was curious..
"The exteriors of the structures are largely covered with glass; together they have more than 14,000 windows. Each of these windows is coated with a layer of 24 karat (100%) gold. At a cost of about $70 per window, the total value of gold in the windows is over $1,000,000 but, due to the manufacturing technique used to make the glass, the gold is unrecoverable. The gold gives the windows a distinctive colour. Gold was used as an insulator to reduce heating costs."
very very cool capture.....