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Marsyas, Tate Modern. London - UK, 2002. Design by Anish Kapoor & Cecil Balmond. Photograph courtesy of Balmond Studio

From the archive – Glass talks to Cecil Balmond one of the world’s leading designers

September 9, 2016

From the Glass archive Designing “the next” – Cecil Balmond, one of the world’s leading designers, talks to Glass about the power of mathematics, the negotiations of expression and growing forms “The harm...

The authority of boldness

Christian Parreno

October 30, 2015

Culture, Design, Feature

From the Glass archive: The authority of boldness – In a conversation with Glass, revered Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas talks about power, ethics and conciliatory architecture  There is no common sty...

Looking up

Christian Parreno

May 5, 2015

Archive, Feature, Glass Design

In the second of a two-part, series Glass explores the world’s skylines and the sustainable future of high-rise buildings High rise buildings, skyscrapers and supertall structures Nowadays the responsib...

Renzo Piano – Glass speaks to a master about working out the secrets of the physical world

Christian Parreno

February 20, 2015

Archive, Culture, Glass Design

Renzo Piano – Glass speaks to a master about working out the secrets of the physical world “The past is a safe refuge. The past is a constant temptation. And yet the future is the only place we have to go, i...

Tadao Ando reflects on how architecture can bring  people closer to their original values

Christian Parreno

August 29, 2014

Archive, Feature, Glass Design

Mirroring the promise  of the individual – Tadao Ando reflects on how architecture can bring  people closer to their original values The architecture of Tadao Ando bears the conceptual mark of mirrors and re...

From Architecture, SCANning Art

Christian Parreno

August 27, 2014

Avant Art, Feature, Glass Design

To scan is to glance and examine the particulars of an object or a condition. Yet it is also to scrutinise and observe sweepingly, as a large expanse. In summary, these are the actions and ambitions of Pedr...

Processing,  sharing Abe

Christian Parreno

February 14, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Design, Feature, Glass Design

“This building is very strange. It is the kind of building that makes you wonder why it is this way. It is not good or bad, ”says Hitoshi Abe as soon as he enters his office in Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, ...

Architecture in time

Christian Parreno

November 5, 2013

Glass Design

. For philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin, “allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things”. In this formulation, ruins constitute the material expression of places that o...

Architecture in China – speed, change, movement and dynamism!

Christian Parreno

October 27, 2013

Feature, Glass Design

Speed! – By David Gianotten, partner in charge of OMA, Asia Building fast has characterised the architectural scene of China since the country adopted a more open approach to the rest of the world in the l...

Passion for purity

Christian Parreno

January 11, 2013

Archive, Feature, Glass Design

“White is the most wonderful colour because within it you can see all the colours of the rainbow … The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changi...

Without qualities – the space of Rem Koolhaas

Christian Parreno

November 2, 2012

Archive, Design, Feature, Glass Design

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When I proposed to talk about space instead of architecture, Rem Koolhaas appeared dubious – he said, “It’s difficult. Space has been the most important mystification of the Modern Movement. It is a colossal al...

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