News - Facades+, Premier Conference on High-Performance Building Enclosures.

West of West drapes Vancouver, Washington’s Terminal One in folded metal panels that catch light and shadow

For those who don’t know, there are actually two North American cities named Vancouver. The lesser-known Vancouver is in Washington State, along the Columbia River, a large, navigable waterway that forms the border with Oregon. The city began its life as a colonial fur trading outpost, and maintains a busy commercial port to this day because of

Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels
Graphite Design Group uses expressive mullions to distinguish three office towers in Bellevue
Boston Valley Terra Cotta hosts the ninth annual Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop in Buffalo
BIG adds a pair of twisting travertine towers along New York City’s High Line
Montgomery Sisam Architects and Moriyama Teshima Architects wrap Sheridan College Student Life Centre with aluminum shades
Perkins Eastman, PBDW Architects, and Mancini Duffy complete TSX Broadway, a tower wrapped by colorful LED screens

Lake Flato brings mass timber to Penn with Amy Gutmann Hall, a new academic hub for data science and AI

Mass timber construction is gradually taking hold on the East Coast. Following D2 Groups’ completion of a timber office building just outside of Philadelphia, Lake Flato—an award-winning practice based in Texas—has delivered the first such project within city limits at the University of Pennsylvania. The new building is designed for Penn Engineering’s growing data science and artificial intelligence program, delivering sleek