Handel Architects faces Harmony Commons, Canada’s largest passive house building, in metal rainscreen panels

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

Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls

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

Populous faces Calgary’s BMO Centre with copper-colored metal panels

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,

Dr. Antony Wood to leave Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat after two decades of service

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

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

Facades+ will come to Boston on July 17

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

TAO shrouds In-Between Pavilion in a veil of stainless steel

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

SO – IL clads Nine Chapel in perforated aluminum screens

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

LGA Architectural Partners reclad a Brutalist library outside Toronto

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

CannonDesign’s Western Michigan University student center features facade of aluminum and GFRC

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

ACDF designs a precast concrete facade for Link in Montreal

Brought to you by: Architect: ACDF Architecture Location: Montreal, Canada Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info Link, a brand new residential tower, has filled in an under-utilized lot in Montreal’s Shaughnaussy Village. The building took advantage of its location near four university campuses and serves as student housing. The tower was designed by ACDF,

Arquitectonica constructs development from interlocking block system

Brought to you by: Architect: Arquitectonica Location: Palm Springs, Florida Completion Date: 2023 Arquitectonica’s latest work, a residential development in Palm Springs provides a tenable model for the alleviation of soaring construction costs which in part have contributed to the nation’s housing crisis. This was achieved through the use of an interlocking block system developed

KPF reclads Fifth Avenue office building with custom oversize IGUs

Brought to you by: Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Location: New York City Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info In 2018, Jared Kushner sold 666 Fifth Avenue to Brookfield Properties. Originally built in 1957, the midcentury skyscraper was due for an overhaul. This began with a renumbering of the address, which was changed to 660

Bates Smart faces Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C., with copper

Brought to you by: Architect: Bates Smart Location: Washington D.C. Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info Much like Uluru—or Ayers Rock, a sandstone landmark in the Australian Outback—the hues on the faces of the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C., change throughout the day. This homage to nature in the built environment is not

SOM delivers innovative curtain wall for Schwarzman College of Computing

Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Completion Date: 2024 View More Project Info Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) boasts an enviable history of innovation in glass curtain walls. From New York’s Lever House to Chicago’s Inland Steel Building to San Francisco’s One Bush Street, SOM has been at the forefront of American

Pelli Clarke & Partners devises tapering curtain wall for Japan’s tallest tower

Brought to you by: Architect: Pelli Clarke & Partners Location: Tokyo Completion Date: 2024 View More Project Info Mori JP is the centerpiece and latest tower in Azabudai Hills, a mixed-use development by Japanese developer Mori Building Company. The 1,082-foot tower was designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners and inserted among the sea of skyscrapers

David Closes adds an aluminum entry to Baroque Museum of Catalonia

Brought to you by: Architect:David Closes Location: Manresa, Catalonia, Spain Completion Date: December 2023 View More Project Info David Closes, a Catalan architect, has completed work on a new entrance building and a series of renovations for the Baroque Museum of Catalonia. Located in the city of Manresa, the project sutures together the remains of

Bilgin Architects envelopes solar panel control center in stainless steel

Brought to you by: Architect: Bilgin Architects Location: Karapinar, Turkey Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info One of Europe’s largest solar fields, comprised of nearly eight square miles of photovoltaic cells, is located in the desert outside of Karapinar, a municipality in Central Turkey. Unusable for agricultural purposes, the site was designated an energy

Kohn Shnier and ERA Architects renovate University of Toronto library

Brought to you by: Architect: Kohn Shnier, ERA Architects Location: Toronto Completion Date: 2022 View More Project Info University College is a historic gothic building on the University of Toronto campus. Built in 1859, the structure is a designated National Historic Site. In 1890, a fire broke out in the building, destroying the college’s library.

GROUPWORK restores facade of 8 Bleeding Heart Yard

Brought to you by: Architect: GROUPWORK Location: London Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info GROUPWORK’s latest project in London’s Farringdon neighborhood reinstates the facades of eight historic buildings demolished in the 1960s. Located at 8 Bleeding Heart Yard, the office building’s new enclosure was designed using aluminum screens that mimic the original stone. It

Facades+ comes to Nashville for the first time

The Facades+ conference series comes to Nashville for the first time on April 21. The event’s program, held at the Westin Nashville, features nine expert-led presentations assembled with the help of co-chair Dave Powell, principal at HASTINGS. During breaks, make sure to stop by the Methods & Materials Gallery where you can speak with representatives