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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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David Baker Architects clads Blue Oak Landing, an affordable housing complex, in weathered steel
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Facades+ will come to Boston on July 17
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TAO shrouds In-Between Pavilion in a veil of stainless steel
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SO – IL clads Nine Chapel in perforated aluminum screens
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LGA Architectural Partners reclad a Brutalist library outside Toronto
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CannonDesign’s Western Michigan University student center features facade of aluminum and GFRC
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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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MVRDV reproduces rock forms for the facade of The Canyon
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AN.ONYMOUS installs irregularly-patterned brick on facade of a medical clinic
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Facades+ comes to Fort Lauderdale on August 24
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NAPUR Architect applies ethnographic motifs to Hungary’s Museum of Ethnography
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Pelli Clarke & Partners emulates mountain topography for facade of Chengdu Natural History Museum
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Park Associati implements a terra-cotta–colored facade for a Milan office building
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ATELIER ARS uses local brick and ceramic work on a cultural center
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SOM’s Winship Cancer Institute establishes a holistic approach to patient care
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Carr uses a concrete grid to frame 835 High Street in a Melbourne suburb
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York University’s School of Continuing Studies stuns with a triangulated facade
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A locally-inspired material palette wraps facade of an English temple
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A facade influenced by modernism adds dimensionality to ETH Zurich’s campus
