California-based artist Kelly Akashi has created a glass chimney to recount her personal experience of loss after the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles for the 2026 Whitney Biennial exhibition. More about Kelly Akashi creates glass chimney as memorial to Los Angeles wildfire losses
Glass bricks and stainless steel characterise this apartment by Berghain designer Studio Karhard, renovated to capture the mood of Berlin's most famous nightclub. More about Berlin apartment designed to be "Berghain in a homely context"
Design studio Safwat by Safwat has balanced a bar, lounge, and restaurant programme at Funny Bar in New York's Lower East Side, using glass brick and postmodern details. More about Safwat by Safwat balances "humor, clarity, and restraint" at Funny Bar in New York
Local practice Bétyle Studio has transformed a former agricultural building in Marseille, France, into a compact home featuring rooms separated by glass blocks that allow light to filter through. More about Bétyle Studio transforms historic French farm building with wood and glass partitions
Local clay and rubble from buildings razed during Apartheid were fired into bricks and fittings for the Rahmah Library in Cape Town, South Africa, completed by local studio The MAAK. More about The MAAK incorporates Apartheid-era demolition rubble into Cape Town school library
Demonstrations of a new glass block type and silicone pottery featured at the Detroit Warehouse: Art and Design Fair show during Detroit Month of Design in a post-industrial building. More about Experimental glass brick features at "long-awaited" Detroit design exhibition
Colombian studio 5 Sólidos has outfitted a duplex apartment in Medellín with a curvaceous red velvet couch and a concrete stair surrounded by vintage glass brick as an homage to 1980s style. More about 5 Sólidos "channels the 1980s" with glass brick and velvet for Medellín apartment
From a privacy-conscious home in Japan to a vaulted greenhouse in Chile, this roundup spotlights buildings from around the world that are brightened by luminous glass bricks and blocks. More about Eight buildings bejewelled with glass bricks and blocks
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an infill home in Belgium with a glass brick facade, designed by local studio Delmulle Delmulle Architecten. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about "A lot of effort for dubious effect" says reader in this week's Dezeen Debate
Walls of glass brickwork pull natural light into Glass Brick House, a home on an enclosed infill site in Belgium designed by local studio Delmulle Delmulle Architecten. More about Glass-brick facade pulls light into Belgian infill home by Delmulle Delmulle Architecten
French studio Chatillon Architectes has transformed a 1950s post office in Brittany into flats, adding an extension with a glass-brick facade. More about Chatillon Architectes turns Brest Post Office into flats with glass-brick facade
The terraced, pixelated King Toronto Residences urban development, designed by Danish architecture studio BIG, is under construction in Toronto, Canada, with move-ins planned for next year. More about Mountainous residential development by BIG rises in Toronto
Photographs have revealed the Casa de Vidrio greenhouse in Chile by architecture studio Max Núñez Arquitectos, which has vaulted roofs made of glass bricks. More about Max Núñez Arquitectos tops greenhouse with vaulted glass block roofs
Design studio Dihome has created a colourful industrial-style interior for this compact 15th-floor apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. More about Glass bricks divide spaces in Suprematism apartment in Kyiv
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an apartment in Porto with graphic metal facades, curving glass-brick walls and bespoke black and white cabinets. More about "Thank God for the sexy cabinets" says commenter
Graphic metal facades and curving glass-block walls characterise this apartment in Porto, which was converted from a ground-floor shop by local architecture studio Fala Atelier. More about Fala Atelier adds geometric "metal masks" to exterior of Porto apartment
Architect Dima Srouji has used glass bricks to construct a miniature waiting room inside the Fenaa Alawwal cultural centre in Riyadh to visualise the bureaucratic limbo faced by displaced Palestinians. More about The Water Clock installation captures the "torturous experience" of waiting at an embassy
Bottega Veneta's creative director Matthieu Blazy has designed the brand's Avenue Montaigne flagship store in Paris, which is dominated by walnut wood fittings and glass bricks. More about Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy combines glass bricks and walnut for first store
Scandinavian and Japanese influences come together at Studio Frantzén, a restaurant in London's Harrods department store designed by Joyn Studio. More about Wooden elements "take centre stage" in Japandi-style Studio Frantzén restaurant
Local firm Studio Noju has updated a two-storey Madrid apartment within the Torres Blancas high-rise with a renovation that remains "in constant dialogue" with the original apartment design. More about Studio Noju renovates curvy apartment in brutalist Torres Blancas tower