Stained Glass?

Shine In On Me

The magnificent stained glass windows of Trinity College’s church, Toronto Ontario. Listening to: These Days - Nico… Shine In On Me[...]

Daniel Libeskind Glass Courtyard

Daniel Libeskind Glass Courtyard [ Daniel Libeskind Glass Courtyard] Daniel Libeskind has designed a structure to cover the courtyard of the original 18th-century Jewish Museum adjacent to his 1999 extension in Berlin. read more Daniel Libeskind Glass Courtyard[...]

People who live in glass houses…

I picked up a design magazine today from 2006 with a feature article on the Philip Johnson Glass House (1949) in New Canaan, CT. Regular tours of the Glass House are already sold out for 2008, according to the Web site link above, but Private or Patron tours are still available. [...]

People Who Live in Glass Houses …

… may have had hired these architects. Neutra Elegant Living is a good introduction to minimalist architecture. There’s some solid human engineering though behind the segment on the bathroom. I’m not sure whether it has walls that are glass, or something more conventional.From People Who Live in Glass[...]

Johnson’s Glass House

Johnson’s Glass House [IMG] While the impracticalities of life in a glass box rendered the Farnsworth House an unlikely model for the mainstream housing market, the concept fascinated many architects. In 1949 Philip Johnson (b. 1906) began work on his own residence in New[...]