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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

Handel Architects faces Harmony Commons, Canada’s largest passive house building, in metal rainscreen panels
Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls
Gianni Botsford Architects designs a glass tower in China with a staggered profile and aluminum mullions
Populous faces Calgary’s BMO Centre with copper-colored metal panels
Beyer Blinder Belle uses brick and glass curtain wall for National Urban League Headquarters in Harlem
Dr. Antony Wood to leave Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat after two decades of service

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.