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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

Lake Flato brings mass timber to Penn with Amy Gutmann Hall, a new academic hub for data science and AI

Mass timber construction is gradually taking hold on the East Coast. Following D2 Groups’ completion of a timber office building just outside of Philadelphia, Lake Flato—an award-winning practice based in Texas—has delivered the first such project within city limits at the University of Pennsylvania. The new building is designed for Penn Engineering’s growing data science and artificial intelligence program, delivering sleek