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Handel Architects armors Boston’s new Life Sciences Center at 2 Harbor with oversized folded panels
The new Life Sciences Center at 2 Harbor Street, located at the edge of Boston’s Marine Industrial Park, appears as a copper-orange grid. With reflective blue glass seeming to vanish against the sky, its facade of orange frames shifts in scale—squat at the base, taller higher up—such that the primary massing reads as 4 stories, though…
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SOM alters the Gothenburg skyline with Karlatornet—Scandinavia’s tallest tower and pixelated icon
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At Facades+ Chicago, AEC experts weigh in on carbon, tariffs, and emerging workflows
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CannonDesign blurs undulations of opaque and transparent glass at UW–Milwaukee’s new Chemistry Building
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Facades+ returns to Toronto on September 26
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BIG alternates balcony types to form the jagged, illusory Kaktus Towers in Copenhagen
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OMA’s JOMOO Headquarters flexes white ceramic stripes angled in different directions
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Facades+ returns to Chicago on September 12
On September 12, the Facades+ conference series will be held in Chicago at the voco Chicago Downtown. The event offers a full day of programming developed in collaboration with SmithGroup principals Matt Dumich, Coty Sandberg, and Jason Smith.
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Miller Hull clads the main floors of the Consulate General Guadalajara in glass to inspire an inviting visitor experience
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Facades+ brings dynamic programs to five cities this fall
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Gensler clads the Iron Workers Local 63 with an undulating curtain wall of tinted glass
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Revery Architecture alters Vancouver’s skyline with The Butterfly, a residential tower with organic curvature and custom glazing
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Payette shades the Ragon Institute with tapered aluminum fins that mimic stone
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Clancy Moore beautifies an Irish wastewater treatment facility with a screen of sea-green louvers
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West of West drapes Vancouver, Washington’s Terminal One in folded metal panels that catch light and shadow
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KPF’s T. Rowe Price Headquarters embraces Baltimore’s industrial vernacular with double-height windows and dark gray aluminum mullions
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Facades+ will be in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 22
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S9 Architecture spotlights the raw materiality of industry in a mixed-use development in Nashville, centered around a former slaughterhouse
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These topics, ideas, and materials define building envelope design in 2025
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Ebpc delivers a monolithic apartment building clad in travertine with balconies and cross-ventilated living units
