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Lasvit presents Sanctums exhibition featuring kinetic glass installation

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Promotion: Czech Republic design brand Lasvit has will launch an exhibition featuring a moving glass art installation and newly launched design collections at this year's Milan design week. ulenová 's Frames – a hanging glass sculpture designed to create playful shadow compositions throughout a room. Partnership content.

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Frankey installs "world's tallest canal bridge" between two Amsterdam buildings

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Frankey , whose real name is Frank de Ruwe, installed his cartoonish Canal Skybridge between a pair of buildings on Rokin, a major street in central Amsterdam. When people use the bridge, it becomes clear that the passageway is not over the top of the vaulted form, but via a transparent glass walkway that runs underneath.

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iHouse’s Customizable Prefab Homes Have Huge Glass Sliders That Connect Them to Their Setting

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The home stands out as a pavilion with two of the largest facades completely covered with glass, so it feels like you’re immersed in the forest. From one day to another the house was fully installed and functioning in the middle of the forest, without disturbing it. What qualities make your prefabs stand apart from the rest?

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Ten homes with light-filled glass extensions

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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. Find out more about The Glass Ribbon ›.

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Studio Odile Decq's minimalist glass pavilion recalls traditional greenhouses

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The Green Pavilion, a glass pavilion with a pyramidal roof, was designed by architect Odile Decq to evoke historic orangeries and installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. It was designed with a minimalistic structure, the bare minimum to hold the massive glass panels.

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Glass blocks divide Eye Eye optical store by Best Practice Architecture

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Local studio Best Practice Architecture has used punchy colours, glass bricks and dichroic glass inside an optometry store in Seattle 's Leschi neighbourhood. So the architects had to get creative to turn the "drab" commercial building into a fun and inviting environment.

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Connect Homes Builds Modernist-Inspired Prefabs With a Surprising Amount of Floor-to-Ceiling Glass

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This led to houses being installed in very inaccessible places where it was difficult to access by car. Today, our most exciting projects are when a client’s house looks like a beautiful, completed midcentury steel-and-glass home from the moment it’s craned on site. This sometimes made a project a little too exciting!

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