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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an infill home in Belgium with a glass brick facade, designed by ...
The freshly launched 2024 visitor season at Philip Johnson ’s Glass House is a significant one. Not only does the National Trust for Historic Preservation–owned house museum’s namesake dwelling turn ...
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 ...
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 ...
You couldn’t go into it.” Completed in 1949, just months before the Glass House, the Brick House was originally designed with three bedrooms for guests, each with a porthole window.
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.
Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA) has installed The Paper Log House on the grounds of Philip Johnson ’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The prefabricated shelter made of paper tubes, canvas ...
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.
Walls of glass brickwork pull natural light into Glass Brick House, a home on an enclosed infill site in Belgium designed by ...
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 ...