Designers have favored the material of crystal brick in recent years, but I believe that for many designers, this material is not even used much.
Today, I will take you to know about this high-value material.
Expand from these aspects:
- What is a crystal brick? The history of crystal brick development?
- Characteristics of crystal bricks
- Application cases of beautiful crystal bricks
What is a crystal brick? The history of crystal brick development?
Crystal brick is a kind of glass brick, which is pressed into a mold at a high temperature. Solid glass brick is also called crystal glass brick.
The surface of the crystal brick is smooth and translucent like crystal, and the texture is hard and wear-resistant like crystal, hence the name crystal brick!
The history of crystal bricks can be traced back to the late 1880s when Swedish architect Gustave Falconnier made glass into such shapes and spliced them together ▼
Gustave Falconnier designed 3 different types of hand-blown glass tiles, the first glass tiles in the world ▼
Later in the 1930s, as machines became more developed, further development created more advanced types of glass bricks. Glass brick is adaptable, modular, and stable, making it a great material.
Modernist architect Pierre Chareau’s “House of Glass” in Paris in 1932 is a very good design, marking the official entry of industrial glass bricks into architectural design▼
In the late 1990s, the luxury brand Hermès invited Renzo Piano to design the Ginza headquarters in Tokyo, using 13,000 custom square glass bricks to form the building surface. ▼
The above is the development history of crystal glass bricks. At present, crystal bricks, a delicate material, is really practical and beautiful in design.
We have understood the development history of crystal glass bricks. Let’s take a look at the characteristics of crystal bricks.
About the following content, we will share it on September 15th CN.
- Characteristics of crystal bricks
- Application cases of beautiful crystal bricks
