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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.

Snøhetta drapes Far Rockaway Library in yellow-tinted glass
INC Architecture & Design uses fluted terra-cotta panels for The Treadwell, an art deco–inspired residential tower
Weiss/Manfredi wraps University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus with faceted precast concrete panels
Morphosis completes concrete-clad building for Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas
Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen deliver performing arts center in China with faceted aluminum facades
Herzog & de Meuron designs a research facility in Basel using a closed-cavity facade system

West of West drapes Vancouver, Washington’s Terminal One in folded metal panels that catch light and shadow

For those who don’t know, there are actually two North American cities named Vancouver. The lesser-known Vancouver is in Washington State, along the Columbia River, a large, navigable waterway that forms the border with Oregon. The city began its life as a colonial fur trading outpost, and maintains a busy commercial port to this day because of