ArchDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The allure of all-glass facades and the pursuit of curtain walls with larger panes of continuous glass have often come at the cost of functionality. This raises the question: is passive ventilation strategy becoming obsolete in high-rise design, or can operable systems be integrated effectively into our high-tech towers?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Draping over them is a single undulating roof, finished with perforated glass tiles that draw dappled light into the interior, nodding to the surrounding trees. A courtyard sits at the centre of the pavilion Intended to resemble "pixelated leaves", the glass roof tiles are composed of two perforated layers.

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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

The space was designed with a gallery-like feel At the centre of the 200-square-metre interior, a green acrylic glass cube that reaches from the floor to the ceiling holds spaces for the clinic's personnel. Surrounding the green box are waiting areas and treatment rooms, which have doors made from walnut wood and "cathedral glass".

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2025

A spiralling structure of cross-laminated timber and glass surrounds a circular events space at the Czech Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka , which was designed by European studio Apropos Architects. The outer walls of the spiral are clad with panels of subtly patterned glass to provide visitors with views as they ascend.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2025

Tucked in a suburban cul-de-sac in La Caada Flintridge, the Glass Ridge House was originally designed in 1973 by Ray Kappe, co-founder of California school SCI-Arc, which happens to be the alma mater of OWIU Design 's Amanda Gunawan and Joel Wong. "The We] wanted to honor this element in the overall design of the home."

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Dwell

JUNE 18, 2025

The material palette emphasizes natural elements—concrete, stone, wood, and glass—prioritizing durability, longevity, and timelessness. The house also had to be positioned to maximize sunlight in living spaces and preserve every existing tree.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These systems are crucial for protecting elevated spaces like balconies, terraces, and staircases, incorporating materials such as tempered laminated glass, stainless steel, aluminum and innovative fastening systems. Base shoes, a type of guardrail system, anchors glass infill panels to the structure, ensuring durability and precision.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The striking glass building, a symbol of the communist era, became an iconic representation of the political power of the time. For many years, Nová Scéna hosted the renowned Laterna Magika , the world’s first multimedia theatre. Read more »

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Work on the 17-acre expansion culminated with the addition of a new 32,000-square-foot glass greenhouse designed by Weiss/Manfredi that houses the immersive Mediterranean garden creation from Reed Hilderbrand, serviced by a network of 128 geothermal wells which are connected to a ground-level heat exchanger. Interior View, West Conservatory.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While big architectural gestures commonly feature glass and steel, those building with the material hope to show that hemp can be grand in its own right.

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Dwell

JUNE 18, 2025

Photo: Pablo Casals Aguirre Photo: Pablo Casals Aguirre Photo: Pablo Casals Aguirre See the full story on Dwell.com: For $290K, You Can Scoop Up a Glass-Clad Cabin in Chile Related stories: For $5.5M, You Can Own One of San Diego’s Four Richard Neutra Homes This $1.3M

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Using prefabricated materials like timber, glass, and aluminum, the Smithsons constructed a light-filled space that harmonizes with its surroundings, embodying their principle of "as found architecture " a concept rooted in honoring and adapting to preexisting conditions rather than imposing on them.

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Archinect

MAY 6, 2025

Installation of the "sophisticated" glass curtain facade system on the first 72-story residential building has begun. Childs passed away last month at the age of 83. SOM now expects work on the first half to wrap up sometime in 2027.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Clad in Western red cedar and embellished with Texas Lueder limestone columns, broad overhangs, and exposed wood beams, it's a stunning bayou home anchored by glass walls that connect it to the surrounding landscape – and keep it safe when Mother Nature rages.

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The use of light as a divine presence is another, with the didactic imagery of the colorful stained-glass windows augmenting the church liturgy. The ornate details, from the intricate wood carvings to the luminous stained-glass windows, speak to an era when no detail was too small to be perfected.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Image credit: Benny Chan Image credit: Benny Chan The centerpiece of the design is a transparent glass façade, creating a visual connection between the museum and Exposition Park. Inside, the Commons Theater and various multipurpose spaces have been built to accommodate an expanded slate of community-centered programming.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It features a circular glass-covered wall covering the original living room space and main volume. The listing, which first appeared last fall from Sotheby’s International Realty , includes a Michael Arad/ Handel Architects -designed addition. The home has four bedrooms with five full baths and sits on a lot totaling 41 acres.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The project, which had been marketed as an interdisciplinary and cohesive "makerspace" for Caltech scientists and engineering students, stands out thanks to an innovative building envelope shaped by an "undulating glass skim" that's noticeably distinct from other academic buildings on campus.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The six-building, 40-acre campus includes Frank Gehry ’s Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) and SANAA’ s Glass Pavilion from 2006. Plans will be unveiled in 2025, followed by the start of construction later in the year towards a 2027 completion.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 27, 2024

If anything, it was carrying humanism into dialogue with new machine and industrial processes, including glass, steel, elevators and automobiles. In response Eamez argued "Bauhaus and early modernism still carried much of the same ethos from Beaux-Arts -- human proportions, rationalism, monumentality.

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Archinect

JANUARY 13, 2025

Image: Whitney Kamman The Glass Cabin by Mjölk architekti in Polubný, Czech Republic The Glass Cabin. Image: BoysPlayNice Mylla Hyt.

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Archinect

MARCH 25, 2025

The Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo has announced an expansion on the Henry Hobson Ricardson-designed 19th-century Richardson Olmsted Campus that will come in the form of a new glass extension created by Höweler & Yoon. The Center’s executive director, Paris Roselli, frames it as an investment in the community.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

MAD Architects has unveiled the One River North apartment block in Denver Located next to a major interstate and light rail line, the 15-storey block's western facade has a curved facade clad in a glass curtain wall with a massive cut "cracking" the building open.

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Archinect

MAY 30, 2025

The mostly one-story plan takes advantage of the large site and creates strong connections to the outdoors with large expanses of glass interspersed with limestone masses. Dining and entertaining areas feature floor-to-ceiling glass pivot doors. The master bedroom, master bath and study all open out to the secluded gardens.

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designboom

JUNE 13, 2025

The new facade , composed of a transparent glass curtain wall system and a series of parametric aluminum louvers, embodies this idea. The glass curtain wall establishes visual continuity with the campus environment, reflecting adjacent structures and reinforcing contextual integration.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2025

In the highest volume, the bedrooms are lined by a glass wall and oriented to overlook the rooftop terrace, onto which they have access via sliding glass doors. The way the volumes conform to the terrain lightly and precisely creates a quiet architecture that feels as though it has always belonged," the studio explained.

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Deezen

MAY 25, 2025

The retractable glass panels across adjacent corners provide panoramic views of the landscape A semi-modular approach was taken to the construction of the concrete buildings some elements are repeated but each has features unique to its siting.

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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

Rising 40- and 46-storeys-high, the towers are made up of interconnected glass structures that widen at their tops and are joined by a podium at their base. Set off from this largely glass exterior, ornate screens typical of Islamic architecture surround the podium building.

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Archinect

APRIL 21, 2025

Glass curtain walls and decks extend the indoor surfaces outside (from the main living spaces, the lake is all one sees through floor to ceiling glass). Structural silicon-glazed curtain walls with hidden frames punctuate black-stained cedar walls allowing the smooth glass to be flush with the wood.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Australian architecture studio Bates Smart has referenced Australia's emerging architectural culture and the "monolithic forms" of its landscape for the design of an embassy in Washington DC , cladding it with glass and copper. The building's main entrance is oriented south toward the White House.

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Archinect

MAY 7, 2025

Photo: Edmund Sumner She designed a precise and revitalizing series of interevtions, replacing the glass wall framing an existing staircase in the Sainsbury Wing while expanding spaces its ground floor by 60%, removing columns, reconciling materials, and introducing the possibility for new dining and retail spaces, including a ne.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Materials like exposed concrete, steel, glass, wood, and stone are selected for their inherent beauty, introducing subtle richness through texture. The Bauhaus also embraced the use of materials like glass, steel and concrete — all key elements of minimalist architecture. Here, the ornamentation comes with the materials’ own qualities.

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Archinect

MAY 14, 2025

At the heart of the design, a transparent glass enclosure bridges two of the terracotta pavilions, transforming the core of the residence into an expansive, light-filled gathering space. This glass-wrapped center dissolves the boundary between indoors and outdoors, inviting sweeping views and abundant nat.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2025

Located in Melbourne, the office building is defined by pleated glass facades that sit atop a brick base. Architecture studio Kennon has completed the 550 Spencer office building in Australia , forming the "first building in the country" to be powered on-site by a solar facade system.

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designboom

MARCH 21, 2025

shaped from bamboo, rammed, earth, and glass, the rounded walls and curving roofline appear to respond the motions of the wind and the waves. The post undulating roof echoing a moving fish tail tops pablo luna studios tea room in indonesia appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

APRIL 28, 2025

The vessels are made from cut glass "Each vase in the Magnus collection has its own character, shape and scale, yet they're bound by a shared visual language," he added. The goal was to channel the essence of brutalism into something unexpected glass that behaves like architecture."

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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2025

Whether its Apples glass-ringed sanctuary by Foster + Partners or TikToks sky-high NYC playground designed by Gensler, each workspace tells a story about the companys unique culture, vision and commitment to excellence. Running on 100% renewable energy, the campus is also North Americas largest LEED Platinum-certified office.

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