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How to Improve Internal and External Environments with Glass Ceilings

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Image © XINLEE As a highly transparent material that stands up to all but the most extreme of weather conditions, is easily formed into any size or shape, and, once formed, will last for thousands of years, glass is still one of the most innovative and crucial materials used in architecture. Read more »

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Yoghurt window coating proposed as emergency heatwave measure

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British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed a low-cost, low-energy solution for keeping UK homes cool in a heatwave: painting the outside of windows with yoghurt. Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea". Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea".

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Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car

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Swedish automaker Polestar has begun taking orders for the Polestar 4 – the world's first mass-market car to have no rear window. The roof line is fluid with no interruptions Eliminating the rear window opened up a number of design opportunities, according to Missoni.

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Daniel Canda adds "suspended glass box" to 1980s residence in Argentina

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Local architecture studio Daniel Canda & Asociados has renovated a 1980s country club residence in Argentina , opening up the interior and wrapping the second floor in ribbon windows. The team kept much of the bottom half of the house intact, removing interior walls and flattening its original gabled roof.

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Jan Tyrpekl raises glass micro home on stilts in rural Austria

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Wall-to-wall glass and a material palette informed by local vernacular define Zen House, a 33-square-metre micro home on stilts in Austria, completed by Czech studio Jan Tyrpekl. The glass micro home sits on a wooden platform made from glued-laminated timber, which is also utilised for the roof structure.

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Kiron Cheerla Architecture crowns home in India with lantern-like roof

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Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. At night, lights inside glow outwards through the roof to create a lantern-like effect. The photography is by Vivek Eadara.

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COA Arquitectura tops Mexico winery with sawtooth roof

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Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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