Category: International

Miller Hull devises glazed Brise-soleil for U.S. embassy in Guatemala

Brought to you by: Design Architect: Miller Hull Partnership Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info In 1999 in an effort to improve embassy security, the U.S. State Department launched its Capital Security Construction Program. Since then the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) has completed 176

NAPUR Architect applies ethnographic motifs to Hungary’s Museum of Ethnography

Brought to you by: Architect: NAPUR Architect Location: Budapest, Hungary Completion Date: May 2022 Located in Varosliget, Budapest’s expansive, centrally-located city park, the Museum of Ethnography was completed in May 2022. The building is part of the larger Liget Budapest urban development project. Under the auspices of Viktor Orban’s right-wing government, the Liget Budapest project

Park Associati implements a terra-cotta–colored facade for a Milan office building

Brought to you by: Architect: Park Associati Location: Milan, Italy Completion Date: 2022 During the first part of the 20th century, Bicocca was a hub of industrial activity. Pirelli, the Italian tire manufacturer, located the bulk of its production within the district. After the flight of manufacturing from the area during the 1970s and 80s,

ATELIER ARS uses local brick and ceramic work on a cultural center

Brought to you by: Architect: ATELIER ARS Location: La Floresta, Ajijic, Jalisco, México Completion Date: 2022 Responding to a request from the Ministry of Culture of the State of Jalisco to “decentralize” cultural centers in the state, Zapopan, Mexico–based architects ATELIER ARS embarked on the design for the Centro para la Cultura y las Artes

Carr uses a concrete grid to frame 835 High Street in a Melbourne suburb

Brought to you by: Architect: Carr Location: Armadale, Victoria, Australia Completion Date: August 2022 In August 2022, Carr completed work on 835 High Street in Armadale, a suburb of Melbourne. The medium-density residential project is located on Armadale’s busiest boulevard, known for its slew of luxury retail shops, gallery spaces, and cafes. At nearly 100,000

York University’s School of Continuing Studies stuns with a triangulated facade

Brought to you by: Design architect/architect of record: Perkins&Will Location: Toronto Completion Date: May 2023 In May 2023, York University, on the outskirts of Toronto, unveiled the new School of Continuing Studies, its newest building. Designed by the local outpost of Perkins&Will, its pivoting form, clad in a diagrid of glass and brushed aluminum, adds a distinctive twisting

A locally-inspired material palette wraps facade of an English temple

Brought to you by: England’s South Downs National Park now features a public-facing complex designed by James Gorst Architects (JGA). Containing a temple, library, chapels, meeting spaces, a public foyer and catering kitchen, the complex, located in Rake, Hampshire, was completed last November. JGA was awarded the project in 2018 following a two-stage competition that

A facade influenced by modernism adds dimensionality to ETH Zurich’s campus

Brought to you by: Zurich-based Boltshauser Architekten turned to modernist influences when designing ETH Zurich’s GLC Research Building. The structure is located near the city center on the ETH’s main campus, which is anchored by a main Neoclassical building expanded with 20th-century additions. The GLC is part of the first phase of realizing a 2014

MJMA screens a glulam-structured community center with aluminum mesh

Brought to you by: In Mississauga, Ontario, a community center designed by MJMA combines local influences with a mass-timber structure. Located on a 50-acre site that was once used for agriculture, the Churchill Meadows Community Centre and Sports Park includes gyms, locker rooms, multipurpose spaces, and a pool within a 75,000-square-foot building. Most smaller programs

Neri&Hu extends the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts with a red travertine facade

Brought to you by: Neri&Hu’s extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts weaves contemporary design into a historic site, an act which reinterprets the standard of cultural monuments in Xi’an, China. Located south of the city’s Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, built in the 7th century, the project is a gateway of sorts for Xi’an’s

&bogdan brings the facade to the interior on a community center

Brought to you by: In Brussels, Belgium, Boulevard Leopold II, a major roadway that runs through the city’s Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Koekelberg neighborhoods, brings connectivity while also dividing the adjacent neighborhoods. Local architect &bogdan designed Amal Amjahid, a community center, to reactivate the areas immediately surrounding the thoroughfare with the intention to bring people together. The site, located on

Tulipwood louvers align on a Shoreditch office building

Brought to you by: Waugh Thistleton Architects’ Black and White building features timber inside and out. Designed to offer flexible workspaces in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood, the sleek-finned building contains 38,000 square feet of net internal area across six stories. The building is made from a beech laminated veneer lumber (LVL) frame and cross-laminated timber (CLT)

KPMB designs a concrete-columned addition to Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Brought to you by: In 1954, media magnate Lord Beaverbrook offered to open a public art gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to display his collection in the maritime provincial capital. Five years later, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opened across from the provincial Legislative Assembly building. The original modernist building was designed by local architects Howell

Madrid’s metro gets a new identity with a black-finned facade

Brought to you by: The first phase of the new home for the Metro de Madrid, the Centro Integral del Transporte (CIT), has been completed with nearly zero-emission building status. Designed by a team of architects from Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos, Nexo Arquitectura, and Andrés Perea Arquitecto, the CIT represents the first phase of a larger redevelopment

Here are the top facades AN covered in 2022

Brought to you by: From terra-cotta to rammed earth and mass timber assemblies, AN has gathered its top facades highlights from 2022. Marking a year in which environmental standards continued to push the evolution of the building envelope, architects responded to energy concerns with a wide range of material palettes that offer envelope solutions across climate zones.

Henning Larsen realizes a new face for Uppsala, Sweden’s town hall

Brought to you by: In Uppsala, a city north of Stockholm, architecture duo (and brothers) Erik and Tore Ahlsén proposed a four-building municipal complex in the early 1960s. The scheme consisted of a series of five-story, bar-like buildings that formed a rectangular perimeter, with an interior courtyard left open. It was largely realized, but construction

Batlleiroig introduces charred wood to the Spanish office building

Brought to you by: Catalan architecture, landscape, and planning firm Batlleiroig has realized the first blackened timber facade in Spain. Its design for the Entegra building marks the first use of the material on an exterior in the country. Located within Barcelona’s 22@ district, a product of urban renewal within the city’s Sant Martí neighborhood,

Studio Bright designs facade with perforated brick screens in Sydney

Brought to you by: Studio Bright’s project at 8 Loftus Street has attempted to reinvigorate a city block in Sydney, Australia’s Circular Quay. Capped with a rooftop garden, and street-level arcade that connects the interior courtyard to the street, the building, part of a larger precinct named Quay Quarter Lanes, houses two floors of retail

Oslotre prioritizes material efficiency in cross-laminated timber building

Brought to you by: While Scandinavia already has a reputation for mass timber construction, including what was, until this year, the world’s tallest timber building, Oslotre’s St. Olavs vei 18 shows a continued innovation of timber projects in the region. Located in Kristiansand, on the southern tip of Norway, St. Olavs vei 18 is the

MAD Architects’ arts center in Aranya is under construction

Brought to you by: Taking inspiration from the massing of clouds, MAD Architects’ forthcoming public art space in Aranya Community, Qinhuangdao, China, is nearing completion. Called the Cloud Center, the building will include a grand hall, gallery, and theater across a footprint of 2,500 square meters (26,000 square feet). Aranya is a coastal town east

Nori Architects retrofits an office building facade with recycled materials

Brought to you by: Nori Architects’ renovation of the Asanuma Corporation’s Nagoya Branch Office has given a 30-year-old, nearly all-glass office building in Aichi, Japan a new facade with primarily recycled natural materials. The Tokyo-based architecture firm was tasked with revamping the 8-story tower into a modern office space. As the firm described, “this project

BIG completes a planted tower in Singapore with a facade that pulls apart

Brought to you by: The newest contribution to Singapore’s reputation as a city engaging in biophilic design is Bjarke Ingels Group’s (BIG) CapitaSpring. The new 51-story, 920-foot-tall tower was designed in collaboration with Carlo Ratti Associati and follows a plan of “vertical urbanism.” Realized for the Singaporean real estate investment and development firm CapitaLand, the

Candalepas and Associates complete a modern, heritage-inspired facade

Brought to you by: Architect: Candalepas Associates Location: Sydney, Australia Completion Date:September, 2022 Located a block from Sydney, Australia’s Hyde Park, 116 Bathurst Street has brought a facade of apses and arches to the city. Also known as The Castle, the 37-story tower contains retail and residential spaces, in addition to a hotel. The design