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Sidewalk skylight (also named 'pavement light') made of load-bearing glass bricks in Burlington House, London

Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and form. Glass bricks provide visual obscuration while admitting light. The modern glass block was developed from pre-existing prism lighting principles in the early 1900s to provide natural light in manufacturing plants. Today glass blocks are used in walls, skylights, and sidewalk lights.

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Glass brick

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Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and...

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Brick

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A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes...

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Masonry

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masonry unit, providing a smooth impervious surface." Glass block or glass brick are blocks made from glass and provide a translucent to clear vision through...

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Glass House

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areas were all in one glass-enclosed room, which Johnson initially lived in, together with the brick guest house. Later, the glass-walled building was used...

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Wall

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panels, bricks, cloth, plastic, plasterboard, wood, blocks of clay, terracotta, concrete, and glass. Some partition walls are made of sheet glass. Glass partition...

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Red brick university

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A red brick university (or redbrick university) was originally one of the nine civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England in...

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List of building materials

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Architecture portal Category: Building materials Alternative natural materials Glass in green buildings Green building and wood List of commercially available...

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Plate glass

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Plate glass, flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls...

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Skylight

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skylights extensively for energy/costs savings. Cupola Daylight factor Glass brick Light tube Passive daylighting Passive solar building design Passive...

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Tempered glass

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toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering...

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Architectural glass

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film applied to ordinary window glass. Glass block, also known as glass brick, is an architectural element made from glass used in areas where privacy or...

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Glass Pavilion

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a temple-like quality. Taut's Glass Pavilion was the first building of importance made of glass bricks. There were glass-treaded metal staircases inside...

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Campana Factory

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the other two. The floors alternate between tile and glass brick with no mullions. The glass bricks provide interior lightning in lieu of full windows....

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Streamline Moderne

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architecture, including a horizontal orientation, rounded corners, the use of glass brick walls or porthole windows, flat roofs, chrome-plated hardware, and horizontal...

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Torre Littoria

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notable for its widespread use of innovative materials such as glass brick, clinker brick and linoleum, and is also the first Italian building with a welded...

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Clinker brick

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Clinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive...

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Building material

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glass together, as glass by itself is too brittle and would require an overly large kiln to be used to span such large areas by itself. Glass bricks were...

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Malloch Building

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backlit glass brick shaft at one edge of the open-air lobby. Scalloped steel railings line the central staircase which is anchored by a glass brick column...

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Aristocrat Motor Inn

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tower set on a basically rectangular ground floor. It is finished in glass, brick, and metal, in the Mid-Century Modern style. The tower is organized around...

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Fiberglass

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plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth. The plastic...

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Scott Brick

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Scott Brick (born January 30, 1966, in Santa Barbara, California) is an American actor, writer and award-winning narrator of over 800 audiobooks, including...

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Refractory

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reactors. Refractories are also used to make crucibles and molds for casting glass and metals. The iron and steel industry and metal casting sectors use approximately...

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Molly Lambert

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in 2017. In 2016, she wrote an article for the New York Times about glass bricks - a subject she has discussed extensively, including on the podcast Why...

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Astoria Park

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contains a decorated one-story brick restroom. The restroom contains decorative piers protruding from all four corners; glass-block openings; and Art Deco...

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