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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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Kengo Kuma & Associates wraps a Paris housing complex with ridged chestnut panels
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Snøhetta drapes Far Rockaway Library in yellow-tinted glass
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INC Architecture & Design uses fluted terra-cotta panels for The Treadwell, an art deco–inspired residential tower
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Weiss/Manfredi wraps University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus with faceted precast concrete panels
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Morphosis completes concrete-clad building for Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas
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Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen deliver performing arts center in China with faceted aluminum facades
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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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Olson Kundig faces an office building with aluminum shades
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OMA designs jigsaw-like office in Amsterdam
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Facades+ returns to New York City on April 4 and 5
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RIOS’s Echo Street West development in Atlanta recalls a railroad past
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AUX Architecture designs a office for itself with aluminum doors
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Facades+ returns to Washington, D.C. on March 20
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Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs Ontario Court of Justice
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luis vidal + architects tops Logan Airport with a red volume
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Facades+ returns to Dallas on February 23
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HED designs Mariposa Lily with art deco plaster detailing
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gh3* uses open weave brick pattern for Windermere Fire Station
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SOM equips Volpe Transportation Center with aluminum fins
