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Facades+ returns to Chicago on September 12

On September 12, the Facades+ conference series will be held in Chicago at the voco Chicago Downtown. The event offers a full day of programming developed in collaboration with SmithGroup principals Matt Dumich, Coty Sandberg, and Jason Smith. Attendees are also encouraged to visit the Methods + Materials gallery, which features 22 exhibiting building product companies.

HGA faces University of Arkansas’s Windgate Studio + Design Center with corrugated metal
5468796 Architecture renovates a historic pumphouse in Winnipeg, adding a pair of apartment buildings clad in corrugated metal
RAMSA delivers a complex masonry facade for Korean retailer Shinsegae
GLUCK+ designs sheet-music inspired facade for WHIN Music Community Charter School
DLR Group tops the Cleveland Museum of Natural History with a sweeping GFRC roofline
KTGY wraps a California art gallery in charred Douglas fir

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