Q.Our 25-year-old brick house has aluminum windows and a gas furnace in the basement.

They are aluminum windows with horizontal lights, the lower light being operable.

She put her hands on her hips and studied the aluminum windows of the horrible little ranch house.

For example, she said, some landmarked buildings must have a special kind of wood-frame window that costs three times more than a modern aluminum window.

Those included replacing most of the existing aluminum windows with double-glazed ones for more energy efficiency.

"Wait," he said, jabbing an index finger toward the forward transparent aluminum window.

Meanwhile, the same commission that sent him back to the drawing board approved after the fact some modern aluminum windows on the building next door.

The vulgar brown aluminum windows look like the work of a fly-by-night loft converter.

He leaned against the transparent aluminum window, watching the stately yellow world that turned below him.

Many of these new homes featured two story design, basements and aluminum framed windows.