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Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, ... It has a beautiful copper color, and the shell is sometimes translucent.

Workers weld copper bands around the bottom of the now-shiny shells. Another machine quickly heats and presses the shell’s open top into a tapered nose. It now begins to look like an artillery ...

A green-patinated copper shell topped with solar panels forms this "habitable power station" in Oxford, designed by local studio Adrian James Architects. Named Copper Bottom, the two-storey house ...