The Line of Fragile Radiance: Neon Light as Atelier, Architecture, and Archive
Portland Street, Hong Kong, with neon lights, 2007. Image © UCLARodent via Wikipedia under license CC BY-SA 2.5…
French scientists discover law that predicts how most objects shatter
Fragmentation, the way objects break into pieces, has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have observed that broken objects tend…
Redeveloped Toi Tauranga Art Gallery now open: I’m quite overwhelmed with what we have achieved’
The problem with the Tauranga Art Gallery was that it faced the wrong way. The building originally belonged…
A glass bead and a green laser helps scientists observe lightning form in real time
A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping…
OnePlus 15 durability test and teardown: Customers must decide between scratches or broken glass
Teardown reveals huge dual-cell battery When it comes to bend testing, however, there are fewer surprises. Even the…
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Scientists discover little-explored planet that rains shards of glass
Space is full of weird but wonderful things, from unusual rocks on Mars that don’t actually belong there…
Jun Aoki cloaks Tiffany & Co store in curving glass panels
Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has used translucent glass panels to create a flowing exterior for Tiffany…
Ninon Hivert Captures the Poetics of Discarded Items in Sculpture and Collage — Colossal
In Ninon Hivert’s multimedia work, an object’s afterlife is an unfolding story—discarded items retaining the memory of a…
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Cartier wraps Cartier Miami in “undulating glass”
American architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed an expansion to the Miami flagship store of jewellery…
German container glass market declines slightly
Sales of German container glass in the first half of 2025 were around 1.92 million tonnes, a decrease…
Escaped bull rams Napier home with mum and kids inside, inspires children’s book
They heard a peculiar noise outside and thought it must have been one of their cows, as they…
Escaped bull rams Napier home with mum and kids inside, inspires children’s book
They heard a peculiar noise outside and thought it must have been one of their cows, as they…