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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 ...

When some design trends go out of style, they stay that way. Others come back around eventually, including the glass block ...

The fact that glass block showers have been around forever — or at least since the early twentieth century — tells you two things. Glass blocks aren't out of style (though some say they're one of the ...

Using a 3D printer that works with molten glass, researchers forged LEGO-like glass bricks with a strength comparable to concrete. The bricks could have a role in circular construction in which ...

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled ...

If you’ve been in Pittsburgh for more than a few hours, you’ve definitely seen them. They’re in basement, bathroom and kitchen windows, of course — odds are you have one in your house. But they also ...