The Facades+ conference series returns to Dallas on February 23, 2024. The event will take place at the Statler, an iconic mid-century modern hotel in the heart of downtown Dallas. The symposium, led by co-chair Yen Ong, partner and cofounder of 5G Studio Collaborative, will feature seven expert-led presentations. This year’s program also contains an

Brought to you by: Architect: HED Completion Date: November, 2023 Location: Los Angeles View More Project Info HED, a nationally recognized architecture and engineering firm, has added 41 units of affordable housing to the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles through the completion of a mid-sized residential tower called Mariposa Lily. The project is sited

Brought to you by: Architect: gh3* Completion Date: June 2023 Location: Edmonton, Alberta View More Project Info Canadian architectural office gh3* has designed a new fire station in the Windermere neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta. The net-zero building is powered by a rooftop photovoltaic array and geothermal heat pump. The building’s massing takes elements from traditional

Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Completion Date:2023 View More Project Info SOM has conceived a new home for the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The curtain wall facade is covered by vertical aluminum shades modeled after the wings and fins of aircrafts in a nod to

In 2024 The Architect’s Newspaper will bring the Facades+ conference series to 13 cities. This will be the 12th year of the conference and we are excited for another year of amazing programs, which will continue to highlight the latest and greatest in high performance envelope design. This year, the conferences will include a new

Brought to you by: Architect: KPF Location: Vancouver Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info A Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)–designed office tower, named after its address, 320 Granville, has completed construction in Vancouver. The building is located in the city’s Central Waterfront Hub, an area which straddles Vancouver’s downtown commercial hub and borders Waterfront Station,

Brought to you by: Architect: KoningEizenberg Architecture Location: Melbourne, Australia Completion Date: February 2023 Los Angeles–based design studio KoningEizenberg Architecture (KEA) has completed construction on a new student pavilion for the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Circulation on the new concrete building was pushed to the exterior, which is detailed with extruded balconies, wood

Brought to you by: Architect: Gehry Partners Location: Burbank, California Completion Date: 2023 To coincide with Warner Bros. Entertainment’s transition into its second century of operation, after its centennial in 2023, Gehry Partners has completed an 870,000-square-foot office complex in Burbank, California dubbed “The Second Century Project.” The office complex is roughly composed of two

On January 25, the Facades+ conference series returns to San Francisco for our first event of 2024. The symposium will be co-chaired by Francesca Oliveira, principal at SOM, and features seven expert-led presentations on topics such as facade performance and carbon. It will also showcase a few of California’s most innovative and striking building envelopes.

Brought to you by: Architect: MJMA Architecture & Design Location: London, Ontario Completion Date: 2022 At East Lions park in London, Ontario, MJMA Architecture & Design completed an overhaul of the park’s recreation facilities, circulation, and landscaping. The firm also designed a brand new community center that replaces a disused outdoor pool. Clad in standing

Brought to you by: Architect: Cunningham Architects Location: Dallas Completion Date: 2023 Dallas-based retailer Half Price Books has constructed a new office complex adjacent to its flagship store on Northwest Highway. Designed by local firm Cunningham Architects, the project consists of four stories and 26,000 square feet of space that will be used for a

Brought to you by: This week, we’ve gathered AN’s picks for the best facades covered in 2023. These projects were sourced from around the globe and exhibit a wide variety of material expressions, ranging from woven carbon and glass fiber to precast concrete and reclaimed brick. Check out our list to discover facades as diverse as

Brought to you by: Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Location: New York Completion Date: 2023 Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is responsible for the latest addition to Hudson Yards, a supertall glass skyscraper named The Spiral for the ascending terraces lining its facade. The building sits on West 34th Street, straddling 10th Avenue and Hudson Boulevard

The Façade Tectonics Institute welcomes its new Executive Director, Katerina Hojgrova Neme, replacing Valerie Block, who has served as the interim Executive Director since 2021. Katerina comes to FTI from UK’s Built Environment Media (former World Architecture News), where she has been since 2007. Here, she was US West Coast Correspondent and a manager of

Brought to you by: Architect: OSO Location: Vancouver Completion Date: 2023 An office tower composed of a shifting cluster of glass boxes, straddles Vancouver’s Business district and cultural center. Designed by the Japanese firm OSO for Deloitte, one of the big four accounting firms, the building attempts to balance the character of the city’s business

Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Completion Date: November 2023 Location: Houston Rice University recently announced the completion of a new research facility. The Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science, designed by SOM, replaces the Abercrombie Engineering Lab and provides students and faculty with 250,000 square feet of laboratories, classrooms, offices, and gathering spaces.

The Architect’s Newspaper’s virtual conference series continues with Renew Reuse Regrow: Virtual Summit, on December 6. Featuring a full day of presentations, the event will bring together leaders in the architecture world whose work covers adaptive reuse and the latest in mass timber progression in the industry. Particularly amid larger discussions of embodied carbon, recycling

The Facades+ conference series will return to Seattle on December 1 for the final event of the year. Co-chaired by LMN Architects, the symposium will feature the most exciting projects in the city as well as two roundtable discussions related to sustainability. During breaks, attendees are encouraged to visit the methods and materials exhibition hall,

Brought to you by: Architect: RDHA Location: Toronto Completion Date: 2023 Toronto-based studio RDHA has designed a new emergency generator tower for Metrolinx, the agency responsible for public transit in Toronto. The generator will be put to use in emergency situations, to power Toronto’s Union Station. RDHA’s generator was built adjacent to a defunct signal

Brought to you by: Architect: Payette Location: Boston Completion Date: 2023 EXP, a brand new science facility for Northeastern University, opened to students earlier this year. Located between Boston’s Roxbury and Fenway neighborhoods, EXP, designed by Payette, allows for the expansion of the school’s scientific research and education programs. The research and laboratory building is

Brought to you by: Architect: Miller Hull Partnership Location: Seattle Completion Date: 2023 The Miller Hull Partnership’s new Health Sciences and Education Building (HSEB) for the University of Washington (UW) utilizes sustainable strategies to deliver co-disciplinary research, classroom, and collaborative spaces for the next generation of healthcare professionals. Featuring an innovative composite structural system consisting

Brought to you by: Architect: DLR Group Location: Sacramento, California Completion Date: 2022 DLR Group recently transformed and refaced the Sacramento Community Center Theatre, a Brutalist structure originally opened in 1974. Rechristened the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center, the building features a new facade with a perforated aluminum screen that allows natural light into

Brought to you by: Architect: LEVENBETTS Completion Date: June, 2023 Location: Brooklyn, New York The Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) East Flatbush Branch reopened in June after significant renovations led by LEVENBETTS, a New York City–based architectural practice that designed the building with input from librarians and community members. While a primary design goal of the

Brought to you by: Architect:KPMB Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Completion Date:2022 In 2018, Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Conservatory closed its doors pending the demolition of its original 1914 building last renovated in 1968. The Leaf, the state-of-the-art successor to the Conservancy’s original botanical garden, by KPMB Architects, completed last year. A defining element of the new