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Gensler clads the Iron Workers Local 63 with an undulating curtain wall of tinted glass

Since its founding in 1896, the International Association of Iron Workers (IW) has trained and represented the skilled labor force behind buildings, infrastructure, shipbuilding, and metal fabrication across the U.S. and Canada. Last year, in Broadview, Illinois—just 12 miles west of downtown Chicago, the 19th-century testing ground of steel-frame construction—Ironworkers Local 63 opened a new training

Provencher_Roy delivers a glass-clad addition to HEC Montreal, Canada’s oldest business school
Kengo Kuma & Associates wraps a Paris housing complex with ridged chestnut panels
Snøhetta drapes Far Rockaway Library in yellow-tinted glass
INC Architecture & Design uses fluted terra-cotta panels for The Treadwell, an art deco–inspired residential tower
Weiss/Manfredi wraps University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus with faceted precast concrete panels
Morphosis completes concrete-clad building for Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas

S9 Architecture spotlights the raw materiality of industry in a mixed-use development in Nashville, centered around a former slaughterhouse

To the northwest of Downtown Nashville and the Tennessee State Capitol sits Germantown, a formerly working class enclave with a large stock of historic masonry architecture. Though the neighborhood is situated along the Cumberland River, visitors might hardly notice, as a freight line and series of industrial buildings severed Germantown’s residential districts from the waterfront long ago.