A new Virgin Hotel has risen above Dallas’ growing Design District, with a diamond-patterned aluminum facade that envelopes 268 rooms and over 15,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event space. Designed by the Dallas-based 5G Studio Collaborative, the hotel is only a block away from the Trinity River, whose future includes a major parks
On February 25th, Facades+ returns to Atlanta for the third time. It’s the first event of the Facades+ 2022 conference series, now in its 10th Anniversary Year. Facades will visit Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York City, for a total of 12 cities this year. The morning program will be delivered in a unique three-session
Architect Leckie Studio Architecture + Design Facade Contractor Powers Construction Glazing Siber Façade Group General Contractor Powers Construction Location Ontario, Canada Completion Date February, 2021 Reflecting the deciduous forest around them, the Arcana cabins by the Vancouver, Canada-based Leckie Studio Architecture + Design intend to connect inhabitants to the landscape of rural Ontario. The exact
Glorya Kaufman’s name is far from an unfamiliar one within the performing arts world of Los Angeles. From the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to the future Glorya Kaufman Theater at the Actors Fund’s Hollywood Arts Collective, to the Los Angeles Dance Center’s long-running Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance series, the Detroit-born philanthropist and dance
Architect Zaha Hadid Architects Facade Engineer Buro Happold Engineering Facade Contractor Jangho General Contractor Guangdong No.1 Construction Engineering Local Design Institute GDAD Structure RBS MEP Engineer BIAD, GDAD MEP Contractor Shijian Landscape Zaha Hadid Architects, Pubang Location Guangzhou, China Completion Date November 2021 Just days ago on November 9, Infinitus China inaugurated Infinitus Plaza, the
Nestled into an existing vertical garden designed by Patrick Blanc, the 35 Green Corner Building by local firm Studio Anne Holtrop makes a monolithic statement in Muharraq, Bahrain. The space, which acts as art collection storage for the Sheikh Ebrahim Center, has a very simple and shallow plan—four stories each consisting of two identical rooms
Of the 40 or so buildings operated by Ryerson University, a rapidly growing public university in Toronto, no others reach as high as the Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex. The 28-story building spans roughly 300,000 square feet and accounts for a sizable chunk of the 800,000 Ryerson has added in the past decade as part
With a history spanning nearly a thousand years, the University of Oxford is the oldest English-speaking institution of its kind. One might not be surprised, then, that its campus architecture has over time been subject to the buffeting winds of fashion. While the overriding mood may be Merrie Olde Englande or Jacobean—the best bits of
Up until the mid-20th century, the incorporation of glazing into any project was an exorbitantly expensive decision and potentially fraught with error due to the irregularity of manufacturing processes. The development of float glass through the Pilkington process, which can be roughly described as rolling molten glass over a tin bath, has enabled continually growing
The first thing to notice about the new Le Monde headquarters in Paris’s 13th Arrondissement is what it does. Designed by Snøhetta, the building straddles a former rail yard along the Seine, not unlike the nearby Pont d’Austerlitz. In doing so, it hoists up enough office space for all the French news conglomerate’s 1,600 employees
The Cloudscape of Haikou opened on April 21st, 2021, welcoming users and park visitors from the coastal city of Haikou, China, to the intimate library and waystation. Commissioned by the city’s Tourism and Culture Investment Holding Group, the sinuous concrete Cloudscape is the first of 16 coastal pavilions that will be built to rejuvenate the public space along