Glass blocks, also referred to as glass bricks, are a semi-transparent building material made out of, you guessed it, glass. Although these terms are often used interchangeably, they actually have ...

Here are ten ways to reclaim the glass block (and yes, it’s not the same thing as a glass brick). advertisement. ELLE DECOR. You Don’t Have to Hate Glass Blocks Anymore.

The system can use glass bottles – so the recycling is baked right in – which are crushed and melted down for the printer to deposit layer by layer. The strongest prototype bricks were ...

In the 1920s and 30s, at the beginning of architecture’s modernist movement, glass bricks were valued by innovators such as Le Corbusier for their clean, industrial aesthetic and light-flooding ...

Early examples of glass bricks in architecture can be seen in Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion for the Werkbund Exhibition (1914), the Maison de Verre (1928), and Argentina's Chacabuco 78 (1910), an ...

This building in Amsterdam is, technically, a brick house, but not one like you've ever seen. The magnificent "crystal" facade is the front of Chanel's flagship store in the city, and it's made ...