We Never Thought We'd See This 80s Trend Again

In the minds of almost everyone who grew up in the '80s, glass block is synonymous with Bad Architecture. It was part of a sort of late-wave shopping-mall-and-office-park Brutalism, and has suffered from the association ever since. Recently, I asked my esteemed colleagues to suggest terrible design elements for this post about bad old trends we hope never come back. They had lots of ideas, one of which was--you guessed it--glass block.