This small commercial building in Portland, Oregon, designed by Works Partnership Architecture has an engineered timber frame that is visible behind a glass curtain wall (+ slideshow). More about Glass facade reveals timber structure of Frame Work building in Portland
Jay Bargmann of Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed a house for his family in the Catskill Mountains, featuring glass walls that reflect the scenic landscape (+ slideshow). More about Jay Bargmann nestles glass-box home into hillside in rural New York
Artisanal oil brand By Evolve has packaged its organic extra virgin olive oil in a cylindrical reusable bottle made from laboratory glass (+ slideshow). More about Evolvia By Evolve olive oil is presented in a minimal bottle
Paris firm BVAU has built an extension to the headquarters of a French social security agency, featuring a glass facade that opens and closes automatically in response to the climate (+ slideshow). More about BVAU designs translucent bioclimatic skin for French social-security agency HQ
Assorted glass blocks give varying levels of translucency to the facade of this showroom and storage facility for an antiques dealer in Osaka, Japan (+ slideshow). More about Glass blocks create multi-tonal facade for antiques showroom by Jun Murata
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has just unveiled a glass kitchen and created a glass wardrobe earlier this year, but he's not the only one who has been pushing the boundaries of the transparent material.
In August, a team from MIT's MediaLab unveiled a technique for 3D-printing molten glass (pictured), and a team of students used smartphone glass to build a lightweight pavilion, while Patricia Urquiola and Nendo were among the designers who revealed glass furniture during this year's Milan design week. See all our stories about glass design »
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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has developed a transparent modular kitchen system with smoked glass surfaces that display the tools inside (+ slideshow). More about Tokujin Yoshioka designs glass kitchen "to show the beauty of kitchen tools"
Renzo Piano Building Workshop is set to begin work on a glass-sheathed tower in Miami Beach that will be the firm's first residential project in the USA (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano unveils plans for glass tower on Miami Beach
Squeezed onto an angular plot between a road and a small irrigation channel, this house near the Belgian village of Knokke comprises a timber-clad ground floor with a glass box resting on top (+ slideshow). More about Govaert & Vanhoutte's House Graafjansdijk features fence-like walls and glazed living spaces
This glazed pavilion-like living space by Argentinian studio Alarciaferrer Arquitectos traverses a shallow ravine that runs through a eucalyptus forest to the shore of Lake Los Molinos (+ slideshow). More about Glass pavilion by Alarciaferrer Arquitectos bridges a lakeside gully in Argentina
Fledgling design brand Norlan and Icelandic designer Sruli Recht have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for a whiskey glass that creates waves in the alcohol to aerate it. More about Norlan glass uses biomimicry to improve whiskey-tasting experience
An "elevated meadow" surrounds the glazed living space of this house in a Bulgarian village, which is raised above the fields on stone-filled cages to give it the appearance of an observation tower (+ slideshow). More about Observation House by I/O Architects features gabion walls and a grassy viewing deck
Dutch Design Week 2015: this "aesthetically pleasing" glass vibrator by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan Buijs is powered by clockwork. More about Bastiaan Buijs creates wind-up sex toy using hand-blown glass
Half greenhouse, half rust-coloured barn, this spa and events space by Tailor Made Arkitekter stands on the edge of Lake Vättern in southern Sweden (+ slideshow). More about Tailor Made Arkitekter merges an archetypal barn with a glasshouse for lakeside spa in Sweden
Major preservation works are underway to replace the tilted glass skylights that define Stirling and Gowan's iconic Engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England. More about Skylights of Stirling and Gowan's Engineering Building to be replaced in £19.5 million renovation
The former home of an SS commander at Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, has been enclosed within a giant glass vitrine by Dutch studio Oving Architecten. More about Oving Architecten shrouds concentration camp house in glass as a memorial to the holocaust
American firm SOM has completed a new tower in Nanchang, China, which features an exterior diagrid system that helps to shade the glass building. More about SOM adds glass skyscraper to growing Chinese tech district
A strip of glazing interrupts the seamless stone-clad surfaces of this multipurpose cultural venue, which Berlin office Hascher Jehle Architecture designed for a site in the Austrian city of Feldkirch (+ slideshow). More about Montforthaus is a curving stone and glass cultural centre in a medieval Austrian city
Maison&Objet 2015: designers at Italian research studio Fabrica have created a set of glass sculptures for presenting fruit. More about Fabrica designers display fruit in unusual ways with Tutti Frutti glass sculptures
Designer and researcher Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab have developed a technique for 3D-printing molten glass, meaning that transparent glass objects can be printed for the first time (+ movie). More about Neri Oxman's new glass printing technique could lead to 3D-printed glass building facades