IMO glass uppers are made for those who don't have 1.5 kitchens worth of cookware (aka stuff) to hide. Only you know what type of organizer you are and whether you'll take time to create behind-the-glass displays. Like open shelves, they sound and look great but are YOU going to enjoy the process.

I am doing solid doors for my stacked cabinets. Two reasons, one because I had glass ones before and never had anything to put in them and once in a while I would look up and see dirty glass that I had to clean! Two, the way my kitchen will be set up, there is no distant view of the upper cabinets from across the room. The view from the family room is the sink wall with large windows and no upper cabinets, so glass stacked cabinets would only be seen right in the kitchen and it wouldn't give you a good view of what was in those high cabinets.

I would probably do solid, unless you had a collection of large colorful cookie jars or something like that that are big, highly visible and colorful. If you have to think about how you would style them properly, don't do it, you can always use extra storage, for things you don't use often.

Maybe a chimney style hood to open up that wall ...

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I love glass-front uppers, BUT you already have open shelves on the left side of the kitchen. THAT is your fancy-spot and your display area. If you add glass-fronts on the right side of the kitchen, it will be a competing fancy-spot /display area, and both sides will suffer.

We use mirrors quite often for that location. Architectural Glass Effects in NJ sells frosted, antiqued, lots of different options. Gives the look and feel of glass but you don’t care what you put inside. And you save on more led lighting…

I agree you need to understand what those cabinets will hold and BTW mirror up there not on your life unless you really love climbing on a ladder to clean mirror all the time. I do hope you mean and island that is 8.5' long not wide .How and where is that hood being vented? I really dislkke open shelves in kitchens so what exactly will you have on those ones?

I like glass cabinets. I’m doing a wavy type glass that you can’t totally see through so I plan to use my glass cabinets the same as other cabinets and don’t plan on styling them in any particular way. I mean I won’t use it for our Tupperware 😂 but not planning on it just being for display.

Where is your sink?

Would use solid doors for kitchen cabinets -- except, perhaps, for a pair near the sink where you will be storing items easily arranged for display such as drinking glasses on the bottom shelf and what you want to display on your upper shelf or shelves such your largest serving platter (perhaps leaning against the back of the cabinet) and bowls that are going to take up most of the shelf anyway so visual clutter would not be an issue.

On that open shelving unit: Do you have that much you really want to display? Is that for dishes -- is that to be your china cabinet? Or is that for decorative canisters and jars containing food items (sugar, powdered sugar, brown sugar, flour, cornmeal, pasta, nuts, cocconut, raisins) to which you want easy access without opening a cabinet door? and is the countertop beneath the open shelving to be a food prep station? Consider what you will be storing there and how easy or difficult it will be to keep it organized.

If any part of that open shelving is for use as your china cabinet, seriously consider making all those shelves glass front cabinets with the possible exception of a bottom open shelf (and then the upper shelves could be deeper and the bottom shelf might not need to be as deep). If you actually cook in your kitchen, It will be a LOT easier to keep clean.

Don't forget to add under cabinet hidden light fixtures above all parts of your countertop (and stove and sink) to light your countertop so you're not trying to work in your own shadow.

Thanks for all your comments.
The sink is in the island. The open shelving by the frig is for decorative purposes, I have some pottery pieces, etc. That counter is not likely a prep Center, more of a command central station.
I am leaning towards solid front cabinets on the range wall. The hood is vented directly outdoors. I don’t love cleaning glass and mirrors at the best of times, so probably should avoid all that ladder work!