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BIG alternates balcony types to form the jagged, illusory Kaktus Towers in Copenhagen
Torqued beside the rail lines at Dybbølsbro Station, the Kaktus Towers cut serrated profiles against the Copenhagen sky. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the seemingly—but not quite—twisted micro-living towers mark the edge of Vesterbro, a former industrial zone now undergoing a new wave of development. Rising from an elevated green plateau—about 65 feet above the street,…
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Facades+ kicks off 2024 in San Francisco on January 25
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MJMA clads Ontario community center in standing seam metal panels
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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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The facade of IKEA’s first full-size city center store cools its surroundings
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A modernist-inspired facade built for desert heat anchors Arizona State University’s Health Futures Center
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MVRDV’s Valley twists and turns with natural stone and green balconies
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Inspired by Manhattanhenge, Scalar Architects transforms aging Kips Bay building with a sparkling facade
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SOM’s 28&7 black terra-cotta facade shines in Chelsea
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Goettsch Partners designs new home for lions at Lincoln Park Zoo
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Steel and glass define a public-facing greenhouse that pushes the scale of urban agriculture
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Here are six singular projects to be featured at Facades+ New York City on April 13-14
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Deborah Berke Partners shakes up Penn’s campus with terra-cotta baguettes
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Facades+ returns to NYC this April for its 10th anniversary
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The Westly juts over its Upper West Side neighbors with a gravity-defying triple cantilever
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Mark Cavagnero Associates shades the UCSF Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building with symmetrical light screen
