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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

Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen deliver performing arts center in China with faceted aluminum facades
Herzog & de Meuron designs a research facility in Basel using a closed-cavity facade system
Allmannwappner designs a folded aluminum facade for a new tower in Berlin’s Europacity
Woods Bagot completes Blue & William, a glass office building framed by terra-cotta extrusions
Lateral Office delivers a corrugated-metal community center in Nunavut
Flad Architects references geological formations for new life science research building in San Diego

These topics, ideas, and materials define building envelope design in 2025

AN’s Facades+ conference series has traveled to cities across North America for 13 years, highlighting developments in building envelope design through engaging presentations from industry-leading professionals. AN Senior Program Associate Trevor Schillaci works on up to 15 of these conferences annually, and has noticed a thing or two about what is trending. For 2025, he has pinpointed aesthetic fads,