All this builds into our idea of a sustainable, circular building material." "Glass as a structural material kind of breaks people's brains a little bit," says Michael Stern, a former MIT graduate ...

a competitive drive for building the tallest structures. The allure of all-glass facades and the pursuit of curtain walls with larger panes of continuous glass have often come at the cost of ...

Like other building sets, you can disassemble the glass pieces to get your materials back and relocate the structure. You can see through the glass, so if you contain your Pals within, you can ...

As a structural demonstration, the researchers constructed a wall of interlocking glass bricks. They envision that 3D-printable glass masonry could be reused many times over as recyclable bricks for ...

Now, researchers from Columbia Engineering, University of Connecticut (UConn), and Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) have developed an extraordinarily strong, lightweight material using two unlikely ...