MJMA clads Ontario community center in standing seam metal panels

Brought to you by: Architect: MJMA Architecture & Design Location: London, Ontario Completion Date: 2022 At East Lions park in London, Ontario, MJMA Architecture & Design completed an overhaul of the park’s recreation facilities, circulation, and landscaping. The firm also designed a brand new community center that replaces a disused outdoor pool. Clad in standing

Cunningham Architects shades office with Accoya wood screens

Brought to you by: Architect: Cunningham Architects Location: Dallas Completion Date: 2023 Dallas-based retailer Half Price Books has constructed a new office complex adjacent to its flagship store on Northwest Highway. Designed by local firm Cunningham Architects, the project consists of four stories and 26,000 square feet of space that will be used for a

These are the top facades AN covered in 2023

Brought to you by: This week, we’ve gathered AN’s picks for the best facades covered in 2023. These projects were sourced from around the globe and exhibit a wide variety of material expressions, ranging from woven carbon and glass fiber to precast concrete and reclaimed brick. Check out our list to discover facades as diverse as

BIG unveils The Spiral, a glass tower wrapped with climbing balconies

Brought to you by: Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Location: New York Completion Date: 2023 Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is responsible for the latest addition to Hudson Yards, a supertall glass skyscraper named The Spiral for the ascending terraces lining its facade. The building sits on West 34th Street, straddling 10th Avenue and Hudson Boulevard

Glass prisms compose OSO’s Deloitte Summit tower in Vancouver

Brought to you by: Architect: OSO Location: Vancouver Completion Date: 2023 An office tower composed of a shifting cluster of glass boxes, straddles Vancouver’s Business district and cultural center. Designed by the Japanese firm OSO for Deloitte, one of the big four accounting firms, the building attempts to balance the character of the city’s business

SOM’s designs new brick engineering building for Rice University

Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Completion Date: November 2023 Location: Houston Rice University recently announced the completion of a new research facility. The Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science, designed by SOM, replaces the Abercrombie Engineering Lab and provides students and faculty with 250,000 square feet of laboratories, classrooms, offices, and gathering spaces.

Renew Reuse Regrow returns on December 6

The Architect’s Newspaper’s virtual conference series continues with Renew Reuse Regrow: Virtual Summit, on December 6. Featuring a full day of presentations, the event will bring together leaders in the architecture world whose work covers adaptive reuse and the latest in mass timber progression in the industry. Particularly amid larger discussions of embodied carbon, recycling

Facades+ will come to Seattle on December 1

The Facades+ conference series will return to Seattle on December 1 for the final event of the year. Co-chaired by LMN Architects, the symposium will feature the most exciting projects in the city as well as two roundtable discussions related to sustainability. During breaks, attendees are encouraged to visit the methods and materials exhibition hall,

RDHA designs a polished aluminum facade for generator tower

Brought to you by: Architect: RDHA Location: Toronto Completion Date: 2023 Toronto-based studio RDHA has designed a new emergency generator tower for Metrolinx, the agency responsible for public transit in Toronto. The generator will be put to use in emergency situations, to power Toronto’s Union Station. RDHA’s generator was built adjacent to a defunct signal

Payette crafts operable stainless steel fins for Northeastern’s EXP building

Brought to you by: Architect: Payette Location: Boston Completion Date: 2023 EXP, a brand new science facility for Northeastern University, opened to students earlier this year. Located between Boston’s Roxbury and Fenway neighborhoods, EXP, designed by Payette, allows for the expansion of the school’s scientific research and education programs. The research and laboratory building is

Miller Hull’s new health sciences building features an opaque facade

Brought to you by: Architect: Miller Hull Partnership Location: Seattle Completion Date: 2023 The Miller Hull Partnership’s new Health Sciences and Education Building (HSEB) for the University of Washington (UW) utilizes sustainable strategies to deliver co-disciplinary research, classroom, and collaborative spaces for the next generation of healthcare professionals. Featuring an innovative composite structural system consisting

DLR Group reclads SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center

Brought to you by: Architect: DLR Group Location: Sacramento, California Completion Date: 2022 DLR Group recently transformed and refaced the Sacramento Community Center Theatre, a Brutalist structure originally opened in 1974. Rechristened the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center, the building features a new facade with a perforated aluminum screen that allows natural light into

LEVENBETTS design pleated aluminum facade for East Flatbush Library

Brought to you by: Architect: LEVENBETTS Completion Date: June, 2023 Location: Brooklyn, New York The Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) East Flatbush Branch reopened in June after significant renovations led by LEVENBETTS, a New York City–based architectural practice that designed the building with input from librarians and community members. While a primary design goal of the

KPMB’s The Leaf features a state-of-the-art ETFE roof

Brought to you by: Architect:KPMB Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Completion Date:2022 In 2018, Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Conservatory closed its doors pending the demolition of its original 1914 building last renovated in 1968. The Leaf, the state-of-the-art successor to the Conservancy’s original botanical garden, by KPMB Architects, completed last year. A defining element of the new

Vertical panels of copper wrap AiF’s 37 Hillside Senior Apartments

Brought to you by: Architect: Architecture in Formation Location:New York Completion Date:2023 New York City–based firm Architecture in Formation (AiF) has delivered 164 units of 100 percent affordable housing to Inwood, a neighborhood on the Northern tip of Manhattan. The 37 Hillside Senior Apartments sit on a sloped site which was formerly occupied by a mid-century chapel, Rocky

Interactive Learning Pavilion couples concrete with aluminum railings

Brought to you by: Architect: LMN Architects Location: Santa Barbara, California Completion Date: 2023 At the base of the Santa Ynez mountain range, west of Los Angeles, sits the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where Seattle-based LMN Architects has recently completed the university’s first classroom-specific building since 1967. The 90,000-square-foot Interactive Learning Pavilion is housed across two buildings

Facades+ will return to Los Angeles on November 9 and 10

On November 9 and 10, The Architect’s Newspaper will host the annual Facades+ Los Angeles conference. This year’s event will include an eight-session symposium on the first day followed by a day of workshops. For the first time since 2019, the workshop day will be held in person, a feature of the conference which was