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A TikTok creator turned scrap wood and leftover glass bricks into a retro glow-up for under $40 — and the design is easy to ...

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 ...

Along with 1980s neon manicures and vintage ’90s blazers, glass blocks are making a comeback thanks in part to a new fan base on social media. One Instagram reel showcasing several types of the retro ...

Buildings have a lot of surface area that's exposed to sunlight, so why just stop at rooftop solar panels? We've already seen solar energy-harvesting windows, and of course Tesla's solar roof. Thanks ...

Q: I am considering installing glass block windows on some first floor ones for security. Is the solid glass energy efficient and can I have some summertime ventilation with them? A: From a security ...

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 ...

Glass that blocks out heat but not light when a room starts getting excessively warm has been developed by UK scientists. At most room temperatures the glass lets both visible and infrared light pass ...

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 ...