Modern public architecture faces a complex design challenge: maintaining an open, welcoming environment for students, ci ...

Western Architectural Openings, part of the MITER Brands portfolio and the premier national provider of large-format glass walls, doors, and window systems, recently announced the launch of its new ...

There’s a reason so many contemporary homes and buildings feature walls of glass instead of brick or stone. Glass has become ...

The designer of “The Blue Whale” has died. The Argentinian born architect César Pelli passed Friday at age 92, after a long career designing some of the most famous buildings in the world. But in LA ...

Architect Philip Johnson built his famous Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., in 1949, when the rectilinear, one-story residence was decidedly avant-garde. In the 70 years since, the influence of the ...

The MIT Mediated Matter Group’s 3D glass printer is slowly morphing from a conceptual tool to something designers could use one day. Design’s wonder material is also one of its most common: glass.

Long Island is home to one of the most prominent architectural glass industries in the country, encompassing huge state-of-the-art computerized glass-cutting factories servicing skyscrapers and small ...

On April 19, for the afternoon keynote of The Architect’s Newspaper’s Facades+ conference in New York, architect Ian Ritchie discussed his decades-long involvement in forward-looking glass ...

Scientifically, glass is defined as an amorphous solid, meaning its atoms are not arranged in a regular crystalline structure. This is why the material is often described as a "liquid frozen in time." ...

From Architectural Record, July, 1928. Read a PDF of the original article here. Perhaps the greatest difference eventually between ancient and modern buildings will be due to our modern machine-made ...

Vitro Architectural Glass announced the appointment of Elliot Adams as national architectural manager for the New England ...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that skyscrapers made of glass and steel “have no place in our city or our Earth anymore.” He argued that their energy inefficient design contributes to ...