When it comes to the art of stained glass, the most common places where stained glass is found are religious buildings, such as churches and monasteries. Different lights can create different atmospheres, and when the sun hits the glass, the effect is dazzling. The colorful light emitted from the building at night is even more eye-catching.

In addition to religious buildings, museums, private houses, restaurants, bars, and even lighting and mirrors are now beginning to install imitation stained glass. Many of them only have colors and no patterns, and more of them hope to create a medieval atmosphere in modern times through stained glass, or to appreciate stained glass as a work of art. This weekend, we have selected some architectural and industrial design works that use stained glass elements well.

The new project by London-based design studio Surman Weston is the transformation of a Victorian church in Islington, London, into a co-working space, part of which is Surman Weston's own office.

The striking elements of the entire space are the space partitions and glass panes decorated with stained glass. A partition of diamond-like glass in dark green, blue, orange and red, inserted between the gabled roof measures, and on one side of the stair space, expresses the geometry of the existing wooden trusses on the one hand, and the stained glass at the same time. The panes also allude to the site's past as a church.

A work by the late American artist Ellsworth Kelly and an architectural work Austin have been opened at the Blanton Art Museum at the University of Texas. Ellsworth Kelly conceived the piece decades ago, but didn't start planning until a few years before his death in 2015.

It's a simple double-barrel dome with a Romanesque and Cistercian feel to it. The stained glass windows are the finishing touch of the whole building. The panes at the entrance are designed in a grid shape, with 9 neatly arranged square panes on one side, and a structure of light scattered outward like clouds and sunrises on the other. On one side are twisted square panes, and the walls are modeled after the crucifixion, composed of 14 marble panels in different variations of black and white tones.

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