Nikolas walks us through how mafalda pasta sparked an insight: differential edge lengths force undulations. The same principle that ruffles leaves and shells now guides glass installations balancing sculptural expression with architectural constraints.

The documentary capturing the creation and installation of Mangrove wouldn't exist without Tarzeer Pictures, a Manila-based production company that brought exceptional skill and deep local knowledge to the project.

We opened our studio to over 180 guests during Open House New York's festival weekend last month. Nikolas and our staff had the opportunity to share current in-progress commissions and past work with the public, providing a glimpse into our design and fabrication methods. Big shout out to OHNY for organizing, and to Stickbulb for fostering the LIC open house community.

When sculpture reaches architectural scale, it becomes an ecosystem of people—engineers, designers, fabricators, and builders—working in concert to shape something far greater than any one discipline alone.

Writer Andrew Page explores the technical evolution behind Weinstein's architectural glass textiles, from early breakthrough innovations to the world record-setting Mangrove installation.

Nikolas Weinstein’s epically scaled sculpture entitled Mangrove is published in Hospitality Design and Sleeper Magazines.

Rhino and Grasshopper enabled precision and automation in Mangrove, our record-breaking glass installation featured in Rhino3Dzine. This project pushed the limits of large-scale glass fabrication while balancing digital accuracy with our sculpting methodology.

The Groovelator is a perfect example of our approach to problem-solving: iterative, hands-on, and deeply integrated with our artistic process. Each design tweak brings us closer to achieving our vision, while simultaneously opening new avenues to explore in the future. 

Lecturing at Arup after the completion of the worlds largest glass sculpture, Solaire, was a reflection on the power of collaboration. Nikolas Weinstein discussed the development of flexible glass textiles and how this innovative approach allows him to build large scale artworks in glass that transform architectural spaces.

Presenting at Ennead Architects offered Nikolas an opportunity to step out of the studio and see his work from a new perspective. Discussing the development of flexible glass textiles and their impact on a recent large-scale installation in Manila helped him reflect on how this innovative approach continues to transform architectural spaces.

Small Firms, Great Projects, a publication by the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco has featured our work in their 19th Edition, released in September 2024 in the State of the Art section.

After producing Bar Agricole almost a decade ago, we collaborated again with Aidlin Darling on the American Institute of Architects new home base in San Francisco; the famous Hallidie Building by Willis Polk.

Hello, Emily here. I thought seeing this recent sculpture from an outsider’s perspective might be a nice way to present this new piece from Nikolas. So I spoke with HL Lim, a founder of LTW Design Works in Asia about his partnership with Nikolas on the Shangri-La Hotel Midtown in Hangzhou.

Just before Christmas, we completed our largest and most complex installation to date. We are now emerging from our new year's slothdom to announce that the Noble House Sculpture is airborne!

Question: What do Nikolas Weinstein Studios, President Enrique Pena Nieto, Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Vladimir Putin, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim have in common?

Imagine our delight when we were contacted by Manuel Fadat, a French curator, researcher, critic and teacher who "geeks out" on technology as much as we do. He works for Oudeis, a laboratory dedicated to the digital, electronic and media arts. Manuel has included Nikolas in a series of interviews he’s done about the links between glass and digital technologies seen through a variety of lenses.

Glass conducts light more efficiently than any other material. This efficiency is why glass holds so much dynamic potential for sculpture; by constantly changing the sculpture with the passage of natural light throughout the day.

Every summer the Glass Art Society [GAS] holds their annual conference in a different US city. This year the theme for the conference was "Glass, Art, and Technology." This was a great fit for us and we were pleased they invited Nikolas to speak. His lecture was titled, “Engineering Art.”

Nikolas posted about this project in Hong Kong when it was being installed back in February. Now that we've got final photography I wanted to pop in quickly and share these images of the Artwork we did for Swire Properties' Arezzo residential tower.

Process images from our Hong Kong installation for Swire Properties’ latest residential project.