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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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Jahn/ lines a residential building in Chicago with aluminum spandrels drawing interest to a glass curtain wall facade
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Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels
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Graphite Design Group uses expressive mullions to distinguish three office towers in Bellevue
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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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RAMSA delivers a complex masonry facade for Korean retailer Shinsegae
A new facility for retail giant Shinsegae marks the first completed project in South Korea for Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA). Located in the heart of Seoul, the new building serves as a training center for the corporations employees and also features office space, ground floor retail, and a large auditorium. The structure’s exterior is wrapped in complex brick bond
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Cunningham Architects shades office with Accoya wood screens
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These are the top facades AN covered in 2023
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BIG unveils The Spiral, a glass tower wrapped with climbing balconies
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Facade Tectonics Institute Welcomes new Executive Director Katerina Hojgrova Neme
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Glass prisms compose OSO’s Deloitte Summit tower in Vancouver
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SOM’s designs new brick engineering building for Rice University
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Renew Reuse Regrow returns on December 6
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Facades+ will come to Seattle on December 1
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RDHA designs a polished aluminum facade for generator tower
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Payette crafts operable stainless steel fins for Northeastern’s EXP building
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Miller Hull’s new health sciences building features an opaque facade
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DLR Group reclads SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center