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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Brought to you by: Architect: Jahn Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info In 2003, Colonel Jennifer Pritzker founded the Pritzker Military Museum and Library in Chicago, Illinois. According to its website, the museum’s mission is to “increase the public’s understanding of military history, military affairs and national security by providing a
Brought to you by: Design architect: Olson Kundig Location: Atlanta Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info In recent years a bevy of mixed-use programming has popped up along Atlanta’s BeltLine, the ever-expanding rail-to-trail corridor. The latest of these projects is a new office building for MailChimp by Olson Kundig that prioritizes nature and relates
Brought to you by: Architect: OMA Location: Amsterdam Completion Date: December 2023 View More Project Info In 1985 the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) entered a competition to design a bank headquarters for J.P. Morgan in Amsterdam’s Oud-Zuid neighborhood. The fledgling firm ultimately lost the bid to Wim Quist, the celebrated Dutch modernist. OMA has
Facades+ New York City returns on April 4 and 5. This year’s program will be led by Henning Larsen’s New York office. Co-chairing the event are Daniel Baumann, design director; Sebastian Hofmeister, senior associate; and Kritika Kharbanda, the firm’s lead sustainability specialist.
Brought to you by: Architect: RIOS Location: Atlanta Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info Echo Street West is a new mixed use development designed and master planned by RIOS. The project is sited at the confluence of several neighborhoods in northwest Atlanta and takes advantage of a recently completed expansion to Atlanta’s BeltLine initiative.
Brought to you by: Architect: AUX Architecture Location: Los Angeles Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info AUX Architecture has debuted its new studio in downtown L.A. The firm will cohabitate the space, a historic brick building constructed in 1915, with an art gallery and cafe. The project’s most significant architectural intervention is located on
The Facades+ conference series returns to Washington, D.C. on March 20. The event will take place at the Washington Plaza Hotel in the heart of the nation’s capital. The one-day symposium will be led by co-chairs Jason Wright, principal at Hickok Cole; and Thomas Corrado, associate principal at Hickok Cole. The event will feature eight
Brought to you by: Architect:Renzo Piano Building Workshop Location: Toronto, Ontario Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has announced the completion of a new facility for the Ontario Court of Justice. The largest courthouse in Ontario will consolidate the court’s various offices and functions previously housed across separate facilities.
Brought to you by: Architect: luis vidal + architects Completion Date: October 2023 Location: Boston View More Project Info luis vidal + architects has delivered an expansion to Terminal E, the international concourse at Boston’s Logan International Airport. The project incorporates renovated portions of the existing terminal into a new structure—resulting in a cumulative 390,000
The Facades+ conference series returns to Dallas on February 23, 2024. The event will take place at the Statler, an iconic mid-century modern hotel in the heart of downtown Dallas. The symposium, led by co-chair Yen Ong, partner and cofounder of 5G Studio Collaborative, will feature seven expert-led presentations. This year’s program also contains an
Brought to you by: Architect: HED Completion Date: November, 2023 Location: Los Angeles View More Project Info HED, a nationally recognized architecture and engineering firm, has added 41 units of affordable housing to the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles through the completion of a mid-sized residential tower called Mariposa Lily. The project is sited
Brought to you by: Architect: gh3* Completion Date: June 2023 Location: Edmonton, Alberta View More Project Info Canadian architectural office gh3* has designed a new fire station in the Windermere neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta. The net-zero building is powered by a rooftop photovoltaic array and geothermal heat pump. The building’s massing takes elements from traditional
Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Completion Date:2023 View More Project Info SOM has conceived a new home for the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The curtain wall facade is covered by vertical aluminum shades modeled after the wings and fins of aircrafts in a nod to