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glasstec 2026: 

Why architects should look at glass again

Glass is no longer simply about transparency.


Today, it is one of architecture’s most advanced building materials, combining light, performance, comfort and design freedom in a single surface.


Modern glazing can insulate, control solar heat, improve acoustics, increase safety and support increasingly ambitious façade concepts. From minimal windows and structural glazing to smart glass and high-performance coatings, the possibilities are evolving rapidly.


This is why glasstec 2026, taking place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 20 to 23 October 2026, deserves the attention of architects and façade designers.

A glass façade is never neutral.


It shapes daylight, views, comfort, energy performance and the architectural identity of a building. Chosen well, glass can create openness and elegance while improving the building envelope. Chosen poorly, it can lead to glare, overheating and energy loss.

glasstec 2026 brings together new developments in façades, windows, structural glass, smart glazing, coatings and sustainable glass technologies.


For architects, the real value lies in understanding how these innovations can translate into better buildings.


Because the future of architectural glass is no longer defined by transparency alone.

It is defined by performance, intelligence and adaptability.


glasstec 2026
20–23 October 2026
Düsseldorf, Germany

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Too much information kills the information

Walk through major building fairs in Europe and elsewhere and you will see it before you understand it: hundreds of stands, thousands of exhibitors, an overwhelming number of products on display in a multiple halls. Somewhere in that ocean, the material or the system that would genuinely change your next project is sitting on a shelf, indistinguishable from everything around it.

This is not a lack of innovation. It is a lack of curation. The large architecture product platforms are no better, some list hundreds of thousands of products, which helps no one either. And for architects, uncurated information has almost no value. Visiting a trade fair, or scrolling an endless online catalogue, without any advice does not save time, it costs it.

This is exactly the gap ArchiWorld exists to close, not only through innovation products and systems, but through innovation projects and editorial as well.

Architects do not need to see everything. They need to see what is relevant to them, chosen by someone who understands both the material and the way they actually work.

This is precisely the gap ArchiWorld was built to close. Starting in October, archiworld.com will introduce a new section built on that principle: the Innovation Lighthouse. Not a database, not a catalogue, but a single clear signal in the noise. A small, carefully chosen selection of genuine innovations that actually deserve an architect’s attention, presented with the same editorial care ArchiWorld has always brought to architecture itself.

Less, chosen well, is worth more than everything, shown without judgment.

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Last Call for Planet Earth, Documentary, 2007

 

Last Call for Planet Earth brings together fourteen internationally renowned architects in a series of personal and thought-provoking conversations about architecture, environmental responsibility and the future of our built world.

Speaking openly about their work, their convictions and the challenges facing contemporary society, the architects reflect on how design can respond to climate change, urban growth and the urgent need to rethink the way we build.

More than a collection of interviews, the documentary is a compelling portrait of architecture as a cultural and transformative force—revealing fourteen distinct personalities, fourteen architectural visions and fourteen different ways of imagining the future.

 

Featuring

Françoise-Hélène Jourda · Thom Mayne · Christoph Ingenhoven · Kengo Kuma · Daniel Pearl · Georg W. Reinberg · Mikko Heikkinen · Markku Komonen · Lloyd Alter · Jaime Lerner · Richard Rogers · Ma Qingyun · Massimiliano Fuksas · Jo Crepain

Directed and produced by Jacques Allard
Interviews and research by Marie-Claire Regniers and Jacques Allard
Camera and photography by Paul De Cock
Editing by Bert Helsen — 2FRAME
Music composed by Johan Hoogewijs
Narrated by Simon Shrimpton Smith

A documentary about architecture, responsibility and the urgent need to build a more sustainable future.


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