Czech architect and designer Bořek Šípek dies aged 66
Bořek Šípek, the Czech architect and designer known for his flamboyant glassware and furniture, has died in Prague aged 66. More
Bořek Šípek, the Czech architect and designer known for his flamboyant glassware and furniture, has died in Prague aged 66. More
Maison&Objet 2016: Czech designer Petra Krausová has used traditional glass-blowing production and finishing techniques to create a constellation of pendants for lighting brand Lasvit (+ movie). More
Maison&Objet 2016: colourful sweets sold at Brazilian markets influenced these glass lights designed by Humberto and Fernando Campana for Czech brand Lasvit (+ movie). More
This dining table by British design brand Duffy London uses layers of wood and glass to create the appearance of a watery abyss (+ slideshow). More
A church shaped like a giant version of Cinderella's fabled glass slipper has been built in Taiwan to entice female visitors. More
The tilted frame of the house by Budi Pradono Architects was designed as an antithesis to the status homes and mock-European styling of a gated community in Jakarta, Indonesia (+ slideshow). More
This glass and timber house by Dutch office DP6 Architectuurstudio was designed "like a little black box" with sections of dark larch cladding to help it merge with the surrounding trees. More
This small commercial building in Portland, Oregon, designed by Works Partnership Architecture has an engineered timber frame that is visible behind a glass curtain wall (+ slideshow). More
Jay Bargmann of Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed a house for his family in the Catskill Mountains, featuring glass walls that reflect the scenic landscape (+ slideshow). More
Artisanal oil brand By Evolve has packaged its organic extra virgin olive oil in a cylindrical reusable bottle made from laboratory glass (+ slideshow). More
Paris firm BVAU has built an extension to the headquarters of a French social security agency, featuring a glass facade that opens and closes automatically in response to the climate (+ slideshow). More
Assorted glass blocks give varying levels of translucency to the facade of this showroom and storage facility for an antiques dealer in Osaka, Japan (+ slideshow). More
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has just unveiled a glass kitchen and created a glass wardrobe earlier this year, but he's not the only one who has been pushing the boundaries of the transparent material.
In August, a team from MIT's MediaLab unveiled a technique for 3D-printing molten glass (pictured), and a team of students used smartphone glass to build a lightweight pavilion, while Patricia Urquiola and Nendo were among the designers who revealed glass furniture during this year's Milan design week. See all our stories about glass design »
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has developed a transparent modular kitchen system with smoked glass surfaces that display the tools inside (+ slideshow). More
Renzo Piano Building Workshop is set to begin work on a glass-sheathed tower in Miami Beach that will be the firm's first residential project in the USA (+ slideshow). More
Squeezed onto an angular plot between a road and a small irrigation channel, this house near the Belgian village of Knokke comprises a timber-clad ground floor with a glass box resting on top (+ slideshow). More
This glazed pavilion-like living space by Argentinian studio Alarciaferrer Arquitectos traverses a shallow ravine that runs through a eucalyptus forest to the shore of Lake Los Molinos (+ slideshow). More
Fledgling design brand Norlan and Icelandic designer Sruli Recht have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for a whiskey glass that creates waves in the alcohol to aerate it. More
An "elevated meadow" surrounds the glazed living space of this house in a Bulgarian village, which is raised above the fields on stone-filled cages to give it the appearance of an observation tower (+ slideshow). More
Dutch Design Week 2015: this "aesthetically pleasing" glass vibrator by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan Buijs is powered by clockwork. More