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Dezeen Agenda features water-filled windows that use sunlight to heat and cool buildings

January 10, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features windows filled with water that use sunlight to heat and cool buildings. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. British startup Water-Filled Glass has developed panes of glass filled with water that use sunlight to power a “crazy” energy-saving heating and cooling system. Water-Filled Glass (WFG) aims to

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Water-filled windows use sunlight to heat and cool buildings

January 3, 2023 Nat Barker 0

British startup Water-Filled Glass has developed panes of glass filled with water that use sunlight to power a “crazy” energy-saving heating and cooling system. Founded in 2020 by Loughborough University architecture lecturer Matyas Gutai, Water-Filled Glass (WFG) aims to use patented technology to make heavily glazed buildings significantly more sustainable. Its windows contain a thin layer

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Geddes Ulinskas Architects includes cast-glass staircase in San Francisco home

November 24, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. The Bay Area studio designed the 12,000-square foot (1,114-square metre) home on a vacant 0.26 acre (1,073 square metre) lot that looks out to the Golden Gate Bridge. “We were

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GBBN expands historic Pennsylvania residence with metal-clad education facility

November 22, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. Completed in April 2022 for Pennsylvania State University Behrend, the Federal House Renovation & Addition project saw the conversion of the oldest brick building in the Harborcreek Township into a modern

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Odile Decq builds all-glass Maison de Verre for client with vision loss

November 7, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. Decq designed Maison de Verre for an owner who suffers from an irreversible and progressive condition that means he can only make out vague shapes, so needed his home

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YOD Group designs Terra restaurant interior to “mirror its surroundings”

November 4, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

Ukrainian design studio YOD Group dressed this restaurant interior in Vynnyky with terracotta tiles and slabs of green glass to reflect the earthy landscape outside. Called Terra, the eatery features a colour and material palette that takes cues from the rolling hills and a lake that border the restaurant. It was completed in February 2022,

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Marc Perrotta updates traditional Mérida home with courtyard extension

October 18, 2022 James Brillon 0

Architect Marc Perrotta has renovated a traditional home in Mérida, Mexico by removing a “clumsy” addition to the home and substituting it for a concrete structure with glass and brick walls. According to local architect Marc Perrotta, the original 19th-century house had undergone several renovations that negatively affected the structure. “It had several additions obscuring

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Proctor & Shaw adds glazed extension to Sky Lantern House in London

October 8, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has refurbished and extended a Victorian townhouse in south London, adding a series of glazed volumes to the rear facade that allow daylight to reach deep into the plan. The brief for the home, named Sky Lantern House, involved preserving the character of the existing building while making its interior

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Concrete designs apartment block with “cloud-like” top for Hell’s Kitchen

August 2, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0
West Residence Club by Concrete facade

Dutch architecture studio Concrete has completed The West Residence Club condominium building in Manhattan, which features a brick base made with recovered debris and an upper portion made of glass boxes. Encompassing 201,000 square feet (18,673 square metres), the apartment building stretches along 11th Avenue, between 47th and 48th Streets, in the Hell’s Kitchen neighbourhood.

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Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

August 2, 2022 James Parkes 0
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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. It has a conical form that

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