Glass brick
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Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and form. Glass bricks provide visual obscuration w
Exterior view of the illuminated facade of Maison Hermès in Tokyo, made of glass bricks.
Mouth-blown glass bricks at sewage treatment plant (Mannheim, Germany 1903)
Vault lights made of load-bearing glass bricks and embedded into a sidewalk in Burlington House, London.
A Greyhound station located in Richmond, Virginia and constructed 1938-1939. Curved glass blocks are prominent along the front exterior of the building, demonstrating the Streamline Moderne architectural style endemic to the period.
Pigmented structural glass
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Pigmented structural glass, also known generically as structural glass and as vitreous marble, and marketed under the names Carrara glass, Sani Onyx, and Vitrolite, among others, is a high-strength, c
Black Vitrolite panelling on the Daily Express Building in Fleet Street, London.
Vitrolite tiling at Eglinton station in Toronto.