And while those buildings utilize glass blocks on impressive facades from floor to ceiling, designers today are finding ways to bring the material back to life indoors, without the cringeworthy ...

Also, while blocks of both materials can be used to build partitions, the weight of glass blocks in substantial quantities can require reinforcement of the floor. That’s much less likely with ...

Glass city. Pittsburgh boomed as a city of steel. But before there was steel, there was glass — Western Pennsylvania was the center of the U.S. glass industry for about 110 years, from the 1840s ...

Glass blocks used to be such a pain. Though they don’t absorb mortar like bricks, glass blocks used to be installed in much the same way, stacked with messy mortar. If you piled a wall too high ...

Bye-bye, blinds: A new smart glass could make windows block heat without absorbing light, saving energy costs, says Nature study. ... Most of these kinds of materials degrade fairly quickly, ...

The material joins other eco-friendly glass bricks including those made from discarded glass and recycling waste ash, as well as a set of highly insulating glass blocks made from aerogels.

Researchers in China have now spruced up the humble window with hydrogel-glass, a material that can selectively block heat from the Sun without blocking its light. SUBSCRIBE. LOG IN.

This is not the material's first foray into the realm of bathroom design. Back in the 80s and 90s, when the glass block was ...

Raise your glass—metaphorically—to these new products, which range from bird-safe glazing to sleek, contemporary ...

Glass blocks are, today, the Marmite of building materials, inspiring both love and hate. Abby Happel, a Chicago-based architect, is in the former camp.

In a video posted to Reddit, user Debatrax shows a glass block in Minecraft with both Misa's Realistic Texture Pack and BSL shaders installed and, from the look of the video, the result is pretty ...

Dear Jim: My house needs more efficient windows. I live alone, so I am considering some glass block windows for security. Are they very efficient, and how can I have some summertime ventilation wit… ...