Story of the Week
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Miller Hull clads the main floors of the Consulate General Guadalajara in glass to inspire an inviting visitor experience
The Miller Hull Partnership designed the new U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara, Mexico. The brief called for a ground-up structure to support American diplomacy while welcoming both Mexican and U.S. citizens in the state of Jalisco. The building’s facade is particularly striking, clad in a curtain wall of proprietary ballistic glass that invites employees and visitors Read more
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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
Like many postindustrial port cities, Baltimore has long struggled to reclaim its waterfront, which is interrupted and obscured by a series of derelict sites once devoted to shipping and manufacturing. One of the largest redevelopment projects addressing this underutilized space is an effort to remake Harbor Point, a 27-acre promontory that juts out into the Patapsco River. Read more
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Facades+ will be in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 22
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S9 Architecture spotlights the raw materiality of industry in a mixed-use development in Nashville, centered around a former slaughterhouse
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These topics, ideas, and materials define building envelope design in 2025
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Ebpc delivers a monolithic apartment building clad in travertine with balconies and cross-ventilated living units
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BNIM Architects used biology as inspiration for the new home of LifeServe Blood Center, with large spans of glazing to protect the building and its inhabitants
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Lake Flato brings mass timber to Penn with Amy Gutmann Hall, a new academic hub for data science and AI
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KWK Promes designs a Polish pipe distribution facility to look like a stack of aluminum tubes
KWK Promes, a Polish firm known for its austere and modern residential work, has demonstrated a capacity for humor and kitsch with its latest project. Tasked with designing a new facility for a pipe distribution company in Gliwice, Poland, the firm’s approach evokes the postmodern principles of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas. Read more

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