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CannonDesign blurs undulations of opaque and transparent glass at UW–Milwaukee’s new Chemistry Building

Approached from an oblique angle, a facade of opaque and transparent glass at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s (UWM) new Chemistry Building appears to defy its own physicality. Windows look as if extending past their edges. Reflective elements register sometimes as transparent, other times as solid. Vertical fins lining stacked, undulating surfaces suggest an ephemeral field of continuities. An

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