I especially like this one
What a clever way to bring natural light indoors.
I lived in a flat in London where the only window was filled with these glass bricks. I think I would have preferred a window.
I’m likely replacing one of my picture windows with these for thermal reasons.
Can somebody help me? I’m trying to come up with a Tetris joke but I keep filling the screen with trash.
If I might Plonk in, I have a solution 4-Widening up your perspective. If your Garbage is a Cheese Race you might want to take it slow and don’t Sprint, but if it’s neat you might want T-spin your mindset around and build on top. Take it in Stride, Back-to-Back, and you can Perfectly Clear out your board.
Trying pivoting, you might see a solution.
Ah, you’re having a creative block.
Yes, but only with a way to get some air in and out.
In my daughters student dormitory, the large corridor linking all the apartments on a level has such a glass wall. 100% closed, no way to air this out.
100% because it is a fire wall or regulations ask for it.
100% because it is a fire wall
I don’t know what you’re talking about, it would be hell to run cat6 through that. I’d definitely route around it and put the firewall in an adjacent room.
The wall material is so hard you’d think it was meant to stop an actual fire.
Hm I kinda always hated them.50-70s Austrian buildings used them a lot.
Huh I’ve never seen a wall of these and I’m old enough to remember the 70’s. Glass block was something you replaced your old basement windows with
It must be a regional thing as we’re probably about the same age. Growing up in CA, I frequently saw portions of walls made of these, especially in businesses and universities. One house by me had a cool turret staircase with alternating wall sections made of these glass bricks. There wasn’t much privacy at night, although you could only make out vague shapes.
Eastern Europe used them tons
Also, teraco as floor material. It cleans easily and it stupidly resistant to damage.
Do you mean terrazzo?
When i look at this image all i hear is the Tetris theme
There’s a Tetris theme?
Yes Korobeniki
Huh? Tetris has 1 song and one song only
My 50s house still has a glass brick window facing the driveway. It’s a great silhouette backdrop, if I leave workbench light on.
Very pretty.
Those are my basement windows. Previous owners fucked me over if I want to let some air in my basement though.
Why is this a shitpost? It’s nostalgia
Shitposts on Lemmy are basically just post whatever you want.
Sometimes it’s beans, sometimes it’s moth, sometimes it’s highly specific nostalgia. Also a lot of trans rights stuff (happy pride, btw).
I always wanted to smash one of these walls with a sledge hammer. I bet it would be satisfying as fuck. Not because I hate them or anything, but because I grew up with games like KnockOut and Don’t Break the Ice and these walls trigger my desire to smash out the blocks without destroying the whole wall.
Haha. I think I have seen these with a couple of windows smashed. Although something tells me they’d be quite hard to smash — like a CRT.
Someone watching jam2go???
They’re called glass brick or glass block, and you can still buy them, I just checked some local home improvement stores’ websites, and they all had some in stock
