Archinect Glass

What it is

"Glass" is a Pinterest board run by the architecture site Archinect. The description is short: glass architecture and window details, pinned from Archinect.com and Bustler.net. The board started in 2012, holds more than two thousand pins and is still active; the most recent pins at the time we checked were from October 2026.

These aren't anonymous pretty windows. They are real buildings with named architects. Recent pins include MAD's cloud-like Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen, a first look inside the completed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, BIG's Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, Nikken Sekkei's Akasaka Green Cross office tower in Tokyo with its public spaces open to the city, Serrano+'s state congress building in Puebla, and Richard and Su Rogers' Wimbledon House, recently given to the National Trust. Captions often credit the photographers, including Iwan Baan and Hufton+Crow.

Why we picked it

Glass is the material that best shows how architecture keeps changing, from transparent modernist boxes to curved, layered and double-skinned envelopes. This board lets you watch that story in a live feed rather than a textbook.

The big plus is that every pin leads to a project or news page on Archinect. Like a facade? Click through to find the architect, the location and how it was built. Pinterest becomes a visual index to a project database the site has been building for years.

It's also one of the few architecture boards that's genuinely alive. Plenty of official practice and magazine accounts on Pinterest went quiet long ago; this one keeps pace with the site.

The geography is broad too, with China, Japan, Mexico, the US and the UK in a single feed. You can see different cultures handle the same material: sometimes glass hides a building and mirrors the city, sometimes it opens the building up and turns the facade into a window on what happens inside.

Where to start

• Find MAD's Tencent headquarters for a good example of glass serving a soft, flowing form.
• Open the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art; the pin leads to a story with photos of the finished building.
• Compare BIG's Suzhou museum with the Asian office towers further down the board.
• Look at the Rogers' Wimbledon House, a high-tech classic, and see how it holds up next to the newcomers.
• If you like the board, check the profile's neighbouring boards on houses, interiors and minimalism.

Who it's for

Architecture students who need facade and daylight references. Interior designers working with light and transparency. Architectural photographers looking for angles. And anyone who follows new buildings and would rather scroll a feed than a news site.

Captions are mostly project and firm names, easy to follow.

Quick answers

Who runs this board? The official Archinect account on Pinterest.

How active is it? Very: the newest pins at the time we checked were added in October 2026.

Where do the pins lead? To Archinect project and news pages, and sometimes to its competitions site Bustler.