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

August 2, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

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

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. It has a conical form that

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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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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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Imbue Design completes glass-and-steel home in Utah desert landscape

January 24, 2022 James Brillon 0

Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA’s most renowned landscapes. The Watchman Cabin was completed collaboratively with a nature-loving client who was “captivated” by the area’s natural surroundings after visiting. Located in Springdale, the site is near

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Ten interiors that use glass-block walls to play with light and shadow

January 22, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Apartment with glass blocks in Buckle Street Studios by Grzywinski+Pons for Locke hotels

As glass bricks are experiencing another renaissance, our latest lookbook features ten projects that showcase how glazed masonry can illuminate any interior – even cramped bathrooms and hallways. Originally invented and popularised in the 1930s, as seen in Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre and Villa Stenersen by Norwegian architect Arne Korsmo, glass blocks went in

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Herzog & de Meuron unveils plectrum-shaped AstraZeneca research centre

December 10, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Disc-shaped glass research centre for AstraZeneca

Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed The Discovery Centre, a glass-clad facility for research and development designed for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in Cambridge. The research centre, which is shaped like a triangular guitar plectrum and features a sawtooth-shaped roof, is located in the middle of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and was designed in

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