A completely transparent, adhesively bonded soda-lime
... a slender metal mesh that actually carries all the load (Wiel Architects, 2014).
In contrast, solid glass blocks present a much higher compressive strength, typically over 200 MPa
(Beall, 1988; Pittsburgh Corning, 2010; Poesia, 2013), which allows them to be used as loadbearing
components, although ...