When you hear the phrase “glass block,” the mind immediately wanders to neon-accented icy interiors of the ‘80s. And don’t worry, those decor trends have been left in their decade ...

Conventional glass blocks are too heavy for those kinds of applications. Also, while blocks of both materials can be used to build partitions, the weight of glass blocks in substantial quantities ...

glass blocks are making a comeback thanks in part to a new fan base on social media. One Instagram reel showcasing several types of the retro building material has racked up more than 5 million ...

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.

Glass that blocks out heat but not light when a room ... The glass is coated the chemical vanadium dioxide. This material transmits both visible and infrared wavelengths of light, and normally ...

A new switchable window material, however, blocks incoming heat while remaining mostly transparent. First of all, there are already windows with electrochromic glass, that electronically tints on ...

Researchers from Exeter University developed new glass blocks that are embedded with ... it to be embedded in conventional construction materials, meaning that its applications are myriad.” ...

Small voltages applied to the material trigger it to block heat and ... embedded some of those nanoscale heat sponges into glass made from niobium oxide, which darkens when exposed to current.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. NYC, where I live, is a city built in large part from glass. It’s not the famed sheet-glass skyscrapers ...

The glass blocks were handmade ... with what he calls “an incredible collection of scrap graphite” (an ideal material for hot-casting glass). Hot-casting is a process that involves pouring ...

They made a toy of the light. Today, I get the same nerdy kick from glass block, the way it garbles objects on the other side of it and dapples incoming light. I’m aware that many people derive ...