Over the years, materials and aesthetics fall in and out of the design world's favor; there are few better examples of this than glass blocks. Once revered and used in architectural marvels the world ...

From a privacy-conscious home in Japan to a vaulted greenhouse in Chile, this roundup spotlights buildings from around the world that are brightened by luminous glass bricks and blocks. Popularised in ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Water-induced transparency loss in styrene–butadiene block copolymers (SBCs) has been ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

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You will need to collect a few simple things before you can produce glass in Minecraft. Gather sand blocks — You will require a minimum of one sand block to obtain a single glass block. Craft or use a ...

‘Brique de verre’, aka the humble glass block, first patented in 1886 and a regular feature of art deco buildings, may have had a starring role in the iconic 1932 Maison de Verre in Paris, yet it has ...

Building a glass farm in Minecraft automates the glass collection process, saving effort and providing a steady supply. Key steps include gathering materials, selecting a desert location, setting up ...

Abstract: We report the application of rectangular glass micro-capillaries with cross-section of 20 μm × 200 μm and 50 μm × 500 μm as capillary-driven liquid-core optical cavities for fluid refractive ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Rory Gardiner. Architect: Allied_office Interior Architect: Akin Atelier It’s official: ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. NYC, where I live, is a city built in large part from glass. It’s not the famed sheet-glass skyscrapers that ...