Awarded the 2021 AIA Award for Architecture in late April, the Senegalese Fass School and Teacher’s Residences is the first in its region of over 110 villages to provide secular education alongside traditional Quranic teaching. The project, completed in 2019, was designed by Toshiko Mori Architect (TMA) for the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and nonprofit group Le Korsa. The oval-shaped main building

A veritable spaceship has landed on the outskirts of the Botswanan capital city of Gaborone, its coppery carapace glinting in the unrelenting sun. This is the Botswana Innovation Hub, and while its form evokes the stylings of Battlestar Galactica, it is very much of this world. SHoP Architects was awarded the project in 2010 following an international

To ring in the New Year, AN dived into a year’s worth of facade products to select the best of 2018. Ranging from operable vent windows to manually-embossed cement rainscreen panels, these products are sure to boost the environmental performance and aesthetic value of any new project. SUNGATE 400  Vitro Architectural Glass Sungate 400 is glazed with

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_layout=”light”] Today at Facades+ New York, The Architect’s Newspaper’s conference series on innovative building envelopes, AEC professionals gathered for a day of talks on the challenges and opportunities presented by the design and construction of high-performance facades. To kick off the afternoon session, Blake Middleton, partner at Handel Architects and Lois Arena, senior mechanical engineer at SWA convened

Adam is a mechanical engineer with experience in high-performance building systems design promoting a balance of finely tuned engineering systems and sound passive design principles. He believes successful design performs across a spectrum of quantitative and measurable to qualitative and aesthetic.

Natalia Quintanilla is a Sustainability Associate at SOM where she works in the design and delivery of high-performance buildings. With over 10 years of experience in sustainability, architecture and façades consulting, she has acquired expertise in a variety of complex projects, including residential, commercial, supertall and large-scale mixed-use developments. By combining her background in architectural

Facades+ returns to Houston for the first time since 2015 on April 13. After successful events in Austin and Dallas in 2022, Facades+ is excited to present a technical program that caters to Houston’s local audience. AN has worked with co-chairs Luisina Basilico, principal at Page, and Rives Taylor, principal and co-director of design resilience

Vikram Sami, AIA, BEMP, LEED® AP, has been working on high performance design for over twenty years, combining technical expertise with a love of design. Since 2016, he has been the Director of Building Performance at the Seattle-based design firm Olson Kundig, where he works closely with project teams across the firm to help imbue

On January 31, The Architect’s Newspaper’s Facades+ conference series is returning to San Francisco. The conference co-chair is EHDD, a Bay Area firm with particular expertise in sustainable design. The morning is split into three panels discussing the resilient design features of 181 Fremont and The Exchange; the complex facade assemblies of Mira Tower and 950 Market Street; and

Elliot Glassman AIA, LEED AP BD+C, CPHD is an architect specializing in environmentally sustainable design. He is the firm-wide building performance leader at CannonDesign. Elliot obtained his Bachelors of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and earned a Masters of Design Studies degree with a concentration in sustainability from the Harvard GSD. He

Aris Tsiopoulos is a Project Consultant at SGH’s Building Technology group in New York City. He holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Aris has performed analysis and simulation of heat/air/moisture migration in building enclosures, energy modeling, and finite element analysis while designing enclosure systems

Cheryl M. Saldanha, P.E., CPHD specializes in the design and evaluation of building enclosures for new construction projects, and in the investigation and renovation of building enclosures for existing buildings. Her background is in building science, including computer simulations of buildings and building components. She is adept at using multiple computer software packages to perform

JED is a Partner at Johnson Fain with more than 20 years of professional experience in designing large-scale projects including creative office, residential, and mixed-use developments. JED earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and a Master of Architecture Degree from Virginia Tech. JED’s knowledge of the building industry

Chelsea Guenette is a project manager with PAE Consulting Engineers in Seattle. During the last eight years at PAE, she has designed HVAC systems on a variety of project types including higher education, laboratories, historic landmarks, K-12, healthcare, data centers, and commercial offices. Passionate about sustainable systems, Chelsea uses a holistic approach in her work,

Since 2003 I’ve been working with researchers, NGOs, architects, and the glass industry to reduce bird mortality. My specialty is risk assessment, product evaluation, collision monitoring, public education and outreach, and implementing custom bird safe building solutions. This includes integrating bird safe practices into existing thermal and/or aesthetic design goals for LEED, passive house, net

Alex Yoon is Director of Design at Monte French Design Studio. His work across the last 12 years runs the gamut of housing: designing new single-family homes, retrofitting Boston triple-deckers, infilling urban lots with midrise multifamily, and recently overseeing the construction of Boston’s first ground-up mass timber structure, a 7 story Passive House multifamily. His

Peter is a Partner at the New York City-based start-up, Hydronic Shell Technologies, that is seeking to advance the adoption of a newly developed and patented retrofit solution. A graduate of the Rhode School of Design, Peter has held the roles of Senior Designer and Project Manager with Skidmore, Owings Merrill, where he gained experience