Glass Curiosities: Cape Town Stadium’s 4,700-ton roof may be the largest glass ceiling in the world

FILED UNDER: Curiosities, Design, News

An aerial view of what some are calling the largest glass ceiling in the world.

Tuesday June 8, 2010 | by Lee Brooks

Glass Curiosities: Apple’s new iPhone 4 encased in gleaming aluminosilicate glass armor

FILED UNDER: Curiosities, Design, News

Tuesday May 25, 2010 | by Andrew Page

On Other Blogs: Glass window at New York’s TimeWarner Center spontaneously shatters

FILED UNDER: Design, News, On Other Blogs

The cable-and-glass multi-story atrium window designed by James Carpenter, seen here directly across from the obelisk, was not affected by the spontaneous shattering of a sixth-story window on another face of the complex on last Friday afternoon.

Thursday May 20, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Designers of Toledo’s Glass Pavilion win architecture’s most prestigious award

FILED UNDER: Award, Design, Events, News

The Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion was one of the projects that won its Japanese architects, SANAA, the 2010 Pritzker Prize. photo: fabrizio costantini

Tuesday April 27, 2010 | by ptravisano

High-school student designs glass trophy for 2010 Endangered Species Day Award

FILED UNDER: Design, News

On the second floor of Studio Inferno in New Orleans, Meredith Graf worked with glass artist James Vella on a trophy commission.

Tuesday March 2, 2010 | by apekshavanjari

Opening: Sixth edition of “Finnish Glass Lives” documents end of glasshouse era but also the floweri

FILED UNDER: Design, Exhibition, New Work, Opening, Uncategorized

Alma Jantunen, Bonsai, 2008.

Thursday February 18, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Cancer surivivor turns handblown votives into five-store retail success story

FILED UNDER: Design, News

Now available in 300 hues, the glassybaby votives sell for $40 in Seattle, Bellevue, and Portland — $44 in New York City.

Wednesday January 27, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Book Report: Before the Studio Glass movement, there was Andries Dirk Copier

FILED UNDER: Book Report, Design

If the story of Studio Glass is a tale of liberation from the factory, then the life and career of designer and sculptor Andries Dirk Copier (1901—1991) is a case-study of this transition. A lavish newly-published book by German publisher Arnoldsche titled Andries Dirk Copier: Ideas in Glass, Unica and More chronicles the experimental work of a designer for Leerdam Glass Factory in the Netherlands who pushed aesthetic and technical boundaries first within the factory system, and later in collaborations with the emerging Studio Glass artists who were reshaping the field.

Saturday January 16, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Call for Submissions: Design exhibition exploring new uses of glass invites artists

FILED UNDER: Call for Submissions, Design, Exhibition

For the 2009 American Design Club exhibition "Purpose and Worth," the window of a Design Within Reach store in Manhattan was painted with a provocative Charles Eames quote: "The details are not details. They make the product."

Friday December 18, 2009 | by Kim Harty

Glass Curiosities: Piece of glass art history makes for an unusual holiday gift

FILED UNDER: Curiosities, Design, News

In 1960, Robert Sowers designed what at the time was the largest window in the world for American Airlines JFK terminal, recently demolished.