Tests by MIT showed that one glass brick can handle pressure similar to that of regular concrete blocks. In a real-world test, researchers built a wall with these interlocking glass bricks ...

Subscribe for FREE In mechanical testing, a single glass brick withstood pressures similar to that of a concrete block. As a structural demonstration, the researchers constructed a wall of ...

The engineers chose to design the bricks in a figure-8 shape, so they could be used to build curved walls. The glass blocks are printed using Evenline’s custom 3D glass printing technology.

The bricks are made from melted glass bottles layered in patterns to ... the glass could withstand similar pressures to concrete blocks, meaning they could easily replace the material in construction.

Hollow glass blocks assembled similarly to a self-supporting stone arch make up the Serpentine Bell, a sculpture by ...