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Revery Architecture alters Vancouver’s skyline with The Butterfly, a residential tower with organic curvature and custom glazing
In the City of Glass, tall towers have tended to look alike. The homogenized skyline of Vancouver, British Columbia emerged during a construction boom in the 1990s. As Canada’s most expensive city rezones to increase density in the face of a worsening housing crisis, the skyline’s once implacable uniformity has begun to change, largely at
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Boston Valley Terra Cotta hosts the ninth annual Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop in Buffalo
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BIG adds a pair of twisting travertine towers along New York City’s High Line
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Montgomery Sisam Architects and Moriyama Teshima Architects wrap Sheridan College Student Life Centre with aluminum shades
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Perkins Eastman, PBDW Architects, and Mancini Duffy complete TSX Broadway, a tower wrapped by colorful LED screens
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Handel Architects faces Harmony Commons, Canada’s largest passive house building, in metal rainscreen panels
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Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls
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These topics, ideas, and materials define building envelope design in 2025
AN’s Facades+ conference series has traveled to cities across North America for 13 years, highlighting developments in building envelope design through engaging presentations from industry-leading professionals. AN Senior Program Associate Trevor Schillaci works on up to 15 of these conferences annually, and has noticed a thing or two about what is trending. For 2025, he has pinpointed aesthetic fads,
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Interactive Learning Pavilion couples concrete with aluminum railings
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Facades+ will return to Los Angeles on November 9 and 10
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AN talks with Bill Zahner about sustainability
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In Vietnam, a brick screen shades Tropical Space’s Premier Office
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MVRDV reclads tower in colorful panels for women and children’s center
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In Germany, Texoversum features a woven fiber facade
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Concrete setbacks define SOM’s 1245 Broadway office tower
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Stanton Williams designs textured-concrete forms for UCL’s Marshgate
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Morris Adjmi Architects emulate train tracks for The Row Fulton Market
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Oversized glass panels repeat across ODA’s 101 West 14th Street
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Facades+ will come to the Windy City on October 6
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Hord Coplan Macht installs metal scrim on facade of CSU Hydro building
