Because solar panels are designed to accumulate as much light from the sun as possible, they’re typically very dark in color. It makes them more efficient, but also kind of an eyesore, minimizing ...

A stained glass solar window on the floor of a CES 2024 press event was more than meets the eye. I was looking not just at an art object, but a solar panel capable of turning sunlight energy into ...

What if the vast, beautiful stained glass windows of cathedrals could be used to generate energy? Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel explored this idea with her project Current Window, a modern, ...

Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel, Pittsford, N.Y., 2003 / Third Generation (Valerie O’ Hara, designer). (Photo courtesy of Pike Stained Glass Studios) Back in the early 2000s, I enrolled in a writing ...

Solar windows, also known as photovoltaic windows or solar glass, are a type of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) technology. Designed to look like windows and perform like solar panels, solar ...

Artisans, like worshipping pilgrims of the day who made pilgrimages to holy sites, traveled from church to church to work on stained glass window projects during the Medieval period. Most stained ...

I think we can all agree that the idea of stained glass sounds a) old fashioned b) complicated and c) extravagant. We were thinking that, too, until we started to see the translucent colored material ...

For several years now, tech companies have been at work to developclear solar panels that can double as windows, but the Current Window provides a gorgeous stained glass twist on that idea. Created by ...