G L A S S B L O C K S . . . and Bruno Taut's GLASHAUS

1960s clear Lego blocks were a child's version of architectural GLASS BLOCKS ...
adults can play with the real thing

  

  GLASS BLOCKS

     

a 1952 hospital

             

GLASS BLOCKS

       

  this 1937 gas station had glass blocks with interior lighting
see full size

  

 GLASS BLOCKS

  

a 1958 glass block skylight

  

  GLASS BLOCKS

  

 1956 ... fluted glass makes for refracted neighbors       see full size

    
 GLASS BLOCKS
    

1938 glass blocks on the skylight walls and floor,  curved architectural glass

with a massive stained glass logo,  and a large indoor tree!
 

 GLASS BLOCKS

   

1938 glass blocks with lights behind created an  amazing but inexpensive effect for a

theater or storefront

 

 GLASS BLOCKS

    

a 1938 office lobby,  Italy       see full size

  

  GLASS BLOCKS

  

1938       see full size

  

  GLASS BLOCKS

         

1942       see full size

  

GLASS BLOCKS

   

a glass block lunch counter in a multi-mirrored area ...  

"Ready for your bill Hon?"

   

 GLASS BLOCKS

     

glass block video (20 seconds, no sound)      click arrow to play
   

GLASS BLOCKS

     

BRUNO TAUT'S GLASHOUSE

in 1914 Bruno Taut built a glass pavilion to showcase the 
German glass industry       see full size

  
     

leather shoes scuffed the stairs       see full size
    

  we can see the photographer in those foreground spheres       see full size

  
     

  sadly the glass house was dismantled,  but could

it have survived two world wars?       see full size
  
   

Bruno Taut's Glashouse       see full size

   

GLASS BLOCKS

    

at the 1937 Paris Expo Internationale

    

GLASS BLOCKS

    

at the 1939 New York World's Fair

     

GLASS BLOCKS

     

1938  Germany

    

  GLASS BLOCKS

      

a 1930 glass block store,  the Netherlands
   

GLASS BLOCKS

    

a 1949 schoolroom with glass block windows       see full size

    

GLASS BLOCKS

    

a 1933 interior glass column top

     

GLASS BLOCKS

    

1933 glass block trim over the elevators in the Empire State Building

    

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