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Glass in architecture refers to the use of transparent or translucent material, typically made of silica, as building material for windows, walls, and skylights. Glass provides natural light and views, improves energy efficiency, and enhances the aesthetic appearance of a building. In modern architecture, advancements in glass technology have allowed for the creation of various types of glass with different properties, including tempered, laminated, and low-emissivity glass. Glass has become an essential component in the design of many contemporary buildings and is widely used for its functional and aesthetic benefits.
Low-E glass may appear identical to conventional clear glazing in architectural applications, yet its performance is vastly different. This thermal and solar-control performance comes from extremely thin, highly engineered coatings…
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Chang’an Academy and Xi’an Public Library is a 70,016.90-square-meter cultural complex on the Ba River in Xi’an, where a broad civic roofscape frames a library interior organized around reading, circulation,…
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Xingu House by TETRO is a 1,800 m2 residence in Nova Lima, Brazil, where three elevated wings negotiate an irregular mountain site through cantilevered concrete slabs, inhabited structural pillars, stone…
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The Rolex Learning Center by SANAA is a continuous academic interior on the EPFL campus near Lake Geneva, organized as an undulating concrete landscape rather than a sequence of rooms…
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The Estonian National Museum in Tartu, designed by Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane / Architects occupies the charged terrain of a former Soviet military airfield in Raadi, transforming the surviving runway into the organizing…
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SANAA’s Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art is a low, square, glass-walled building in Toledo, Ohio, that combines collection galleries, glassmaking workshops, public rooms, and courtyards within a…
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Designed by Jan Duiker with Bernard Bijvoet between 1927 and 1930, the Eerste Openluchtschool voor het Gezonde Kind in Amsterdam translates early-twentieth-century concerns with sunlight, air, and childhood health into…
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Bjerkebaek Visitors Center in Lillehammer is a museum threshold built at the edge of Sigrid Undset’s protected home and garden. Designed as a low linear structure between road and landscape,…
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Rising 850 feet above Manhattan’s East Side waterfront, Sutton Tower introduces a slender limestone-clad profile into the historically low-rise enclave of Sutton Place. Designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen and completed in…
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Santiago Calatrava’s Gare de Mons organizes a fractured urban territory into a continuous civic sequence by spanning the rail corridor with a raised concourse and a long steel-and-glass canopy. The…
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Set within a private estate in central Ukraine, Under the Reed Roof Guesthouses reinterpret the rural hata-mazanka through a single, dominant architectural gesture. A monumental thatched roof shelters a compact,…
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Casa Conte extends a late-1970s house on a steep alpine slope in South Tyrol, resolving regulatory constraints and topographical pressure through a low, terrain-adapted addition that reinforces spatial autonomy while…
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The Tiffany Façade Beijing introduces a vertically articulated glass layer to a four-storey retail building in the Taikoo-Li Sanlitun district, using depth, curvature, and translucency to negotiate visibility, scale, and…
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The Perigon is a 17‑story residential tower on Miami Beach’s Mid‑Beach that leverages a rare dual‑waterfront site between Indian Creek and the Atlantic Ocean. Designed by OMA / Jason Long,…
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