David Baker Architects clads Blue Oak Landing, an affordable housing complex, in weathered steel

Heatherwick Studio and BIG cover Google building with solar shingles

425 Park Avenue telescopes skyward with diagrid glass

view of the bronze building from the center of the city, the new russian copper company headquarters

Foster + Partners’ Russian Copper Company headquarters echoes its namesake material

The new home for columbia business school spans two glassy volumes

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Columbia Business School carves out a niche with crystalline curves

a flat elevation of the east entrance with the colored wayfidning illuminating the checkerboard windows

The Aya delivers a new housing prototype with its four-faced facade

side view of the front of the building

PBDW Architects’ bulbous East Harlem Cooke School sails toward the future of learning

exterior corner shot of the kebonized wood scrim exterior with thin lighting illuminated at dusk at the new studio ma office

Studio Ma’s Phoenix office oasis is shrouded in a kebonized wood scrim

east facade shot straight on showing the concrete supports at ground floor for the patio and main terra-cotta wall

CO Architects showcases “clay’s anatomy” for its terra-cotta health building at ASU

main entrance facade of 444 N Orleans with porcelain stucco and glazed black brick and stucco

Porcelain panels go head-to-head with Chicago’s historic brick at 444 N Orleans

scale of the flat windowless facade of the amant at the opening preview event

SO–IL’s Brooklyn Amant Foundation art campus embraces idiosyncrasies of clay and cement brick

folding marble facade of capital one hall

HGA’s marble panels fold into the future of mixed-use development

image of the building at sunset, the Hans Rosling Center, clad in glass fins

The Hans Rosling Center’s glass and aluminum fins embody the university’s health initiative

close up of the ribbed bronze fins of facade on the northeastern campus

Show-stopping bronze fins breathe life into Northeastern University’s science complex

The exterior of narbo via, a concrete museum with cantilevering shade

Honey-colored, load-bearing concrete highlights the collection at the Narbo Via museum

light gray trespa panels of folding slatted facade

Archi-Tectonics wraps a SoHo addition to an urban townhouse with new climate skin

Vancouver House, a twisting cantilevered tower

The matte stainless steel facade of Vancouver House highlights twisting innovation

image from the building from the bottom up

Adjaye Associates’ 130 Williams re-enchants the Lower Manhattan skyline

The national aquarium in baltimore, with a jutting triangular glass topper

Baltimore’s National Aquarium will make its iconic glass pyramid bird safe

image of partial section of the facade

Studio Gang crowns St. Louis with a new crystalline residential tower

Rendering of the Metropolitan Museum of Art window wall

With Eamon Roche in agreement, LPC approves new glass wall for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

aerial shot of the oval shaped thatched roof and surrounding two smaller buildings

The passive house Fass School employs local materials for an active facade

sinuous concrete form of the open terrace facing the water

The concrete Cloudscape of Haikou elevates sinuous form for coastal pavilion

rendering of four of the towers seen bifurcated by the 3rd avenue bridge on harlem river

Bankside housing complex brings textured continuity to the Harlem River waterfront