In case you haven’t heard already, glass blocks are back. In a big way. These translucent building blocks have been popping up in all of our favorite designers' work, and we’re ready to bring the ...

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Glass block walls have become a modern favorite in both home and commercial building design, offering a unique blend of aesthetics and functionality. If you’re looking to add a touch of elegance or ...

Sturdy building block and fragile glass make an unlikely combination. But that’s what you get with glass block — the strength of masonry and the light of a window. It’s used mainly on modern-style ...

This material is making a big comeback. 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 ...

AS A KID, I was beguiled by the prisms you could buy in science stores. They made a toy of the light. Today, I get the same nerdy kick from glass block, the way it garbles objects on the other side of ...

Like many 1930s houses, the interior of this one in the Melbourne, Australia, suburb of South Yarra was drenched in character. But sunlight? Not so much. The homeowner and her children had lived in ...

Unique, contemporary, one of a kind — all words that describe 5405 Eastman, custom built in 1940, and currently for sale for $265,000. To say that the house is unique is really an understatement. Lori ...

Some years back, a Playboy humorist predicted that “everything will be plastic, by and by.” Although he was referring to plastic surgery and anatomical augmentation, his forecast was just as apt when ...