By daytime, the sun's glow bounces off the glass bricks, casting the house in an ethereal luminosity but, as the sun sets, the house transforms into a glowing lantern, lit from within.

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Last week, Philip Johnson ’s Brick House—the unassuming partner to the architect’s famous Glass House — reopened its doors in New Canaan, Connecticut. After being closed to the public for ...

The Brick House’s reopening coincides with its and the Glass House’s shared 75th anniversary. The site is celebrating the occasion at its annual Summer Party, which, this year, has tapped Ed ...

The architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House, a rectangular glass-and-steel residence set on a grassy shelf above a wooded bluff in New Canaan, Conn., has epitomized a certain East Coast ideal of ...

In New Canaan, Connecticut, Philip Johnson ’s 1949 Brick House—a one-story brick building sited next to the Glass House—is being restored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

(The Brick House, also completed in 1949, is scheduled to reopen following restoration work on May 2.) The Glass House, completed in 1949, is an icon of modern architecture.

As for the lasting characters of this project, a.k.a. the glass block façade and the bright blue accents, those have individual explanations too. The home is set behind the city’s busy Princess ...