Facades+ celebrates the latest developments in building enclosure design and technology
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Story of the Week
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Handel Architects armors Boston’s new Life Sciences Center at 2 Harbor with oversized folded panels
The new Life Sciences Center at 2 Harbor Street, located at the edge of Boston’s Marine Industrial Park, appears as a copper-orange grid. With reflective blue glass seeming to vanish against the sky, its facade of orange frames shifts in scale—squat at the base, taller higher up—such that the primary massing reads as 4 stories, though… Read more
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BIG alternates balcony types to form the jagged, illusory Kaktus Towers in Copenhagen
Torqued beside the rail lines at Dybbølsbro Station, the Kaktus Towers cut serrated profiles against the Copenhagen sky. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the seemingly—but not quite—twisted micro-living towers mark the edge of Vesterbro, a former industrial zone now undergoing a new wave of development. Rising from an elevated green plateau—about 65 feet above the street,… Read more
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OMA’s JOMOO Headquarters flexes white ceramic stripes angled in different directions
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Facades+ returns to Chicago on September 12
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Miller Hull clads the main floors of the Consulate General Guadalajara in glass to inspire an inviting visitor experience
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Facades+ brings dynamic programs to five cities this fall
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Gensler clads the Iron Workers Local 63 with an undulating curtain wall of tinted glass
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Revery Architecture alters Vancouver’s skyline with The Butterfly, a residential tower with organic curvature and custom glazing
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Payette shades the Ragon Institute with tapered aluminum fins that mimic stone
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Clancy Moore beautifies an Irish wastewater treatment facility with a screen of sea-green louvers
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West of West drapes Vancouver, Washington’s Terminal One in folded metal panels that catch light and shadow
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KPF’s T. Rowe Price Headquarters embraces Baltimore’s industrial vernacular with double-height windows and dark gray aluminum mullions
