German architecture firm Allmannwappner has completed a tower within Berlin’s new Europacity quarter, a massive mixed-use development near the city’s central train station. The 21-story building is leased solely to KPMG, a global accounting firm. It features a double-skin facade with an outer layer of folding aluminum rods that modulate in depth across the surface
Australian architecture firm Woods Bagot has completed a new office building in North Sydney with spectacular views of the city’s harbor and downtown business district. Blue & William, named after its cross streets, is sited between a commercial area and a quiet suburb. To negotiate these disparate architectural languages, the architects framed the building’s large
Lateral Office, a small Toronto-based practice, has completed work on the Innuusirvik Community Wellness Hub (ICWH) in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The 2-story building, located in the heart of downtown Iqaluit, was designed for the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre, a female-led nonprofit that combines traditional Inuit knowledge and cultural practices with scientific research to improve public health
At Torrey View, a life science research campus in San Diego by Flad Architects and Breakthrough Properties the idea was to harmonize building with environment. The campus buildings reflect geologic formations; this was achieved by replicating the layered geology of canyons using precast concrete and Glass-Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC). The project spans 10 acres to
Architect: HDR Location: Rochester, Minnesota Completion Date: 2024 The Mayo Clinic may be one of the most trusted names in Google searches for symptoms late at night. But the Mayo Clinic’s leadership in the realm of health sciences research is now on full display IRL with a new building designed by HDR in Rochester, Minnesota.
Architect: Jahn/ Location: Chicago Completion Date: 2024 A quick scan of the Chicago skyline reveals a sea of glass curtain wall towers. For 1000M, a new residential building in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Jahn set out to design a building that sets itself apart from this monotony. The facade of the 805-foot tower was
Bureau des Mésarchitectures—the architectural practice of French-Portuguese artist Didier Fiúza Faustino—has designed a new apartment complex in Leiria, Portugal. Adding seven additional apartments along Leira’s Rua dos Mártires, near the center of the small city, the complex consists of a renovated single family home connected to a newly constructed, half-circular extension clad in precast concrete
Architect: Graphite Design Group Location: Bellevue, Washington Completion Date: 2024 Graphite Design Group has added three new office towers to downtown Bellevue, Washington, a satellite city of Seattle. Faced with a glass curtain wall, the three buildings were distinguished from one another through the use of unique mullion patterns. The development, known as West Main,
To encourage interest in architectural terracotta, Boston Valley Terra Cotta (BVTC) hosts the Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop (ACAW), an annual, week-long event. In partnership with the University of Buffalo (UB) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the manufacturer invites professional and academic teams to Buffalo to create architectural prototypes using the material. At this year’s event,
Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Location: New York City Completion Date: 2024 Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed One High Line, a pair of twisting, travertine-clad towers in Chelsea. The buildings, named for their proximity to the High Line, contain luxury condo units and a hotel. To preserve sight lines from the High Line to
Architect: Montgomery Sisam Architects, Moriyama Teshima Architects Location: Mississauga Completion Date: 2022 In a joint venture, Montgomery Sisam Architects and Moriyama Teshima Architects designed the Student Life Centre, a building on Sheridan College’s Hazel McCallion campus in Mississauga, Ontario. The structure achieved high thermal efficiency through the use of aluminum fins across its south and
Architect: Perkins Eastman, Mancini Duffy, PBDW Architects Location: New York City Completion Date: 2024 TSX Broadway is a recently completed mixed-use tower in Times Square. The development, set at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 47th Street, consists of a 47-story hotel constructed above the Palace Theatre, a historic Broadway venue. To create space for
Architect: Handel Architects Location: Scarborough, Ontario Completion Date: 2024 Harmony Commons, a 718 unit dormitory, is the latest addition to the University of Toronto’s Scarborough, Ontario campus. Designed by Handel Architects, the new residence is all-electric and is the largest building in Canada to achieve passive house certification. To conceal the insulation and weather barrier
Architect: Makoto Yamaguchi Design Location: Tokyo Completion Date: 2024 Makoto Yamaguchi Design has conceived a new headquarters for a video game production company in Tokyo. Known as MONOSPINAL, the building takes the form of an inverted Japanese pagoda, clad in aluminum panels instead of traditional wood construction. The slanted walls that characterize the form of
Architect: Gianni Botsford Architects Location: Chengdu, China Completion Date: 2024 Gianni Botsford Architects, a London-based practice, has designed a new office tower for OPPO, a Chinese electronics manufacturer. Located south of Chengdu’s city center, the new tower anchors a larger development called the Singapore Sichuan Hi Tech Innovation Park. The facade of the tower is
Architect: Populous Location: Calgary, Alberta Completion Date: 2024 Each July, over one million people descend on Western Canada for the Calgary Stampede, one of the largest rodeos in the world. The event is hosted in Stampede park, a sprawling venue along the Elbow River home to the Scotiabank Saddledome, GMC Stadium, the Calgary Stampede Stadium,
Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle Location: New York City Completion Date: 2024 New York City–based design firm Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) has completed the Urban Empowerment Center, a new mixed-use development along Harlem’s 125th Street. In addition to retail, office space, and affordable housing, the building will contain the headquarters of the National Urban League (NUL), a
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a Chicago-based nonprofit, announced today its president, Dr. Antony Wood, is leaving the organization. Wood has worked at CTBUH in various capacities for close to twenty years. As noted by AN contributor Zach Mortice, Wood is known for starting off speeches with his catch mark: “Ninety-five percent of tall buildings are crap; they
David Baker Architects (DBA) have delivered Blue Oak Landing, a new modularly constructed affordable housing complex in Vallejo, California. The project takes cues from the firm’s earlier projects, such as the Tahanan Supportive Housing Complex in San Francisco, where a similar sawtooth design and perforated weathered steel panels were implemented. In total, the development provides
The Architect’s Newspaper is bringing the Facades+ conference series back to Boston on July 17. AN partnered with Chris Hardy and Emily Goldenberg, design directors from MASS Design Group, as the conference co-chairs. The event’s symposium will cover new and exciting projects in New England and feature conversations on daylight strategies, resilient housing, and fabrication
Brought to you by: Architect: Trace Architecture Office Location: Shenzhen, China Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info Trace Architecture Office’s (TAO) In-Between Pavilion is a multilevel exhibition space wedged between two residential towers in Shenzhen’s Nantou Ancient Town. A stainless steel mesh veil is draped from the building’s exposed steel structure to shade an
Brought to you by: Architect: SO – IL Location: Brooklyn Completion Date: 2024 View More Project Info Work nears completion at 9 Chapel Street, a new residential tower in Downtown Brooklyn designed by SO – IL. This is the firm’s latest collaboration with Tankhouse—a boutique developer cofounded by Sam Alyson-Mayne, son of Morphosis’s Thom Mayne. Perforated aluminum
Brought to you by: Architect: LGA Architectural Partners Location: Scarborough, Ontario Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info First open to the public in 1971, The Albert Campbell Branch of the Toronto Public Library (TPL) is a Brutalist structure from the oeuvre of Canadian firm Fairfield & DuBois. Its interior finishes—exposed concrete block and red
Brought to you by: Architect: CannonDesign Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan Completion Date: 2024 View More Project Info CannonDesign has delivered a new student center for Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo. The design of the building employs references to the region’s nature and landscapes. Supported by a GFRC plinth that emulates local bedrock, the building’s glazed