Glass

Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

August 2, 2022 James Parkes 0

Image of the interior of the glass pavilion

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann’s firm Studio Other Spaces has created the Vertical Panorama Pavilion, a conical pavilion made from 832 coloured glass panels, for a winery in California. The pavilion was designed by Berlin-based Studio Other Spaces for the winery The Donum Estate in the Sonoma Valley, California. It has a conical form

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Ten homes with light-filled glass extensions

July 17, 2022 Alice Finney 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve chosen 10 residential glass extensions that create airy, light-filled and modern additions to homes. Glass is a popular material for house extensions as it is durable, weather-resistant and – thanks to its transparency – adds light and brightness to a space. While glass extensions are common in cities all over

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Safdie Architects vaults glass atrium over indoor garden for São Paulo medical centre

July 14, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Safdie Architects has oriented a medical centre in Brazil around a massive atrium with a glass ceiling that was designed to evoke “the feeling of being under a tree canopy”. Safdie Architects created The Albert Einstein Education and Research Center (AEERC), located in southern São Paulo, to house a medical school as well as research

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WilkinsonEyre wraps Toronto skyscraper in “three-dimensional diamonds”

June 9, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

London architecture studio WilkinsonEyre has completed the CIBC Square skyscraper in Toronto, Canada, which is surrounded in undulating glass facades. Created as the headquarters for bank Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the 250-meters-tall skyscraper stands in Toronto’s central business district. Named CIBC Square, the building has a glass facade that covers the distinct volumes that make

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Ten living rooms that use floor-to-ceiling glazing to bring the outdoors in

April 30, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Floor-to-ceiling windows of Whidbey Island Farm

In our latest lookbook, we spotlight 10 homes with living rooms enclosed by floor-to-ceiling glazing and window walls that create seamless connections to their natural surroundings. The use of large panes of glass on the exterior of a dwelling is a popular trend in residential architecture as it is an effective way to make living

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Bill for bird-friendly glass buildings proposed for Washington DC

April 21, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Glass facade of SHoP's Midtown Center in Washington DC

A bill has been filed in Washington DC calling for new buildings in the city to use bird-friendly glass, in an effort to minimise avian deaths resulting from window collisions. Named The Migratory Local Wildlife Protection Act of 2022, the proposed legislation would require new buildings in the US capital to be designed with products

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Woods + Dangaran creates Desert Palisades house for rocky site in Palm Springs

April 6, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Patinated brass panels and extra-clear glass form the facades of a weekend dwelling designed by Woods + Dangaran for a boulder-strewn site in southern California. The Desert Palisades home – located in a gated community of the same name in Palm Springs – serves as a family weekend retreat for designer Brett Woods, who leads

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Xinxiang Cultural Tourism Centre by Mathieu Forest Architecte resembles a stack of ice cubes

March 10, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A stack of nine frosted glass “ice cubes” atop a pool of water houses this cultural centre in Xinxiang, China, designed by French practice Mathieu Forest Architecte. The Xinxiang Cultural Tourism Centre was designed as a sculptural icon for a new winter sports tourism district in the city, which will in future include an indoor

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Glass facades are “the main culprit” for billions of annual bird deaths

March 9, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Legislation is needed to force architects to prevent the mass slaughter of birds that “didn’t evolve to deal with glass”, experts have told Dezeen. “We need broad-scale legislation requiring buildings to be bird-friendly,” said Kaitlyn Parkins, an ecologist who is campaigning to reduce bird deaths in New York City. “Birds do not understand the concept

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Rediscovered Mies van der Rohe design completes in Indiana

February 22, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

A glass building designed in 1952 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has completed at Indiana University in Bloomington, more than 50 years after the German-American architect’s death. Now known as the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, the design was adapted for contemporary use from the rediscovered plans by New York architecture studio

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