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Gensler clads the Iron Workers Local 63 with an undulating curtain wall of tinted glass

Since its founding in 1896, the International Association of Iron Workers (IW) has trained and represented the skilled labor force behind buildings, infrastructure, shipbuilding, and metal fabrication across the U.S. and Canada. Last year, in Broadview, Illinois—just 12 miles west of downtown Chicago, the 19th-century testing ground of steel-frame construction—Ironworkers Local 63 opened a new training

Diamond Schmitt powers Fanshawe College Innovation Village with blue BIPV panels
LEVER Architecture evokes early moving picture technology with expansion of Universal Studios
hcma encloses təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Center with standing seam metal and rigorous insulation
Range Design & Architecture screens a furniture showroom in Chicago with terra-cotta pavers
HDR encloses the Kiewit Luminarium with perforated aluminum panels
HLW faces the McShane Campus Center at Fordham University with natural stone

S9 Architecture spotlights the raw materiality of industry in a mixed-use development in Nashville, centered around a former slaughterhouse

To the northwest of Downtown Nashville and the Tennessee State Capitol sits Germantown, a formerly working class enclave with a large stock of historic masonry architecture. Though the neighborhood is situated along the Cumberland River, visitors might hardly notice, as a freight line and series of industrial buildings severed Germantown’s residential districts from the waterfront long ago.