We don’t usually ruminate on a specific material, unless it’s something really groundbreaking. But today, a NYT piece on the tribulations of the glass base of 1 World Trade Center got us thinking about glass. As the article reports, the 185-foot-tall concrete base of the building is being disguised by the architects with 2,000 clear prismatic glass panels (the piece details some of the problems with the scheme). What jumped out, to us, was how important the architects saw glass as being, in their quest to create an interface between the public and the building itself.

Click through to check out our picks for the most interesting glass project on Architizer – from the fritted to the structural.

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1) Glass and Timber Houses, Martin Williams, London, United Kingdom.

2) The Art Gallery of Ontario, by Guardian, in Toronto, Canada.

3) Cardiff Millennium Center, Jonathan Adams, Cardiff, England.

4) Hauptbahnhof Berlin, Gerkan, Marg and Partners, Berlin, Germany. Image via.

5) Linden Grove Middle School, by Guardian, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

6) Cubus, Woods Bagot, Hong Kong.

7) Treehugger, One Fine Day, Koblenz, Germany.

8) Salmon Bay Landing, by Guardian, in Seattle, Washington.

9) Villa Skäret, Chahrour Huhtilainen A+D, Höganäs, Sweden.

10) LOG, Abrahams May Architects, installation in Union Square, September 2010. Image via.