Snøhetta renovates Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in France
Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the renovation of Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in France, unifying its performance spaces around a…
Seven buildings draped with undulating glass facades
In this roundup, we spotlight seven buildings with undulating glass facades that resemble flowing fabric, giving new meaning…
Forgeworks revamps Somerset farmhouse with stone extension
An extension built from timber, glass and limestone unites a 19th-century farmhouse with an adjacent barn at this…
It’s Hard Like a Diamond But Looks Like a Liquid
An ideal glass (left) compared to a conventional glass (right). In the ideal glass, all the particles are…
Apple supplier Nittobo to roll out improved glass cloth crucial to AI chips
Materials Nvidia, Google among US tech companies vying to secure material from top producer Nitto Boseki’s glass cloth…
“A little over the top but it makes a statement” says commenter
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Tiffany & Co’s flagship store in Beijing, designed by Dutch…
MVRDV drapes glass veil around Tiffany & Co flagship in Beijing
A curving glass veil that appears to be “constantly changing as you move” cloaks the exterior of the…
Australia’s top glassmakers are the focus of the exhibition Glass Chrysalis II
When glassmaker Isobel Waters works in the hot shop, using a blowpipe to form and shape molten glass…
The Line of Fragile Radiance: Neon Light as Atelier, Architecture, and Archive
Portland Street, Hong Kong, with neon lights, 2007. Image © UCLARodent via Wikipedia under license CC BY-SA 2.5…
Redeveloped Toi Tauranga Art Gallery now open: I’m quite overwhelmed with what we have achieved’
The problem with the Tauranga Art Gallery was that it faced the wrong way. The building originally belonged…
French scientists discover law that predicts how most objects shatter
Fragmentation, the way objects break into pieces, has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have observed that broken objects tend…
A glass bead and a green laser helps scientists observe lightning form in real time
A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping…