With global population growth accelerating urban expansion, construction activity has reached unprecedented levels—placing ...

Discover the magic of stone, steel, and glass in modern design! These materials blend strength and beauty, creating environments that inspire and captivate. 🏙️✨ How these power players shape our ...

Despite the challenging site, Splinter Society has created a highly sustainable housing solution, using glass blocks as a key material to meet the stringent fire, acoustic and light requirements, and ...

Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion, Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, 1914 Inside the pavilion, the two spiral staircases leading to the upper level are set between glass brick walls, one of the earliest artistic ...

While this design is most commonly associated with the architecture of the 1980s, these types of glass blocks have a far richer design history than you may have expected. The material actually ...

ETH Zurich materials researchers have developed a groundbreaking method that enables the near-complete recycling of acrylic glass for the first time. The polymer chains are broken down into their ...

Luckily it blocks 98% of UVA radiation because it is made ... We see UV damage from sunlight through our home windows in faded materials, furniture or plastics. Most glass used in residential windows ...

Recycled glass is also commonly used in tiling, so you can lean into the trend of tiling your outdoor countertops, but this time with recycled materials. Butcher block is a trending material for ...

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 ...

FIRST ON FOX: A top Republican senator is introducing legislation to block the federal government from disposing of border wall materials after a controversy over the auctioning of border wall ...

639) causes me once more to draw attention to the great advantage which would be gained by the use of magnetic iron ore as a material for concrete blocks ... water in clean glass jars where ...

On top of that, structural tests of the material revealed that the glass could withstand similar pressures to concrete blocks, meaning they could easily replace the material in construction. As we ...