At the third edition of the Venice Glass Week, which opened this weekend, more than 180 initiatives were planned to celebrate Venice’s most famous craft, which was first conceived in the neighboring ...

The art of glassmaking dates back as early as the 15th century B.C.E. in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Early on, glassmakers knew how to color glass by mixing metallic oxides into the ingredients and popular ...

A 9-m (29.5-ft) long fully functional slide is claimed to be the first made entirely out of single pieces of glass. The Vidre-Slide comprises just two half-cylindrical sections bonded together with ...

When you hear the phrase “glass block,” the mind immediately wanders to neon-accented icy interiors of the ‘80s. And don’t worry, those decor trends have been left in their decade, hopefully never to ...

New York restricts the growth of glass skyscrapers. Shutterstock. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that skyscrapers made of glass and steel “have no place in our city or our Earth anymore”.

The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, limestone and quartz sand – until they melt ...