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Story of the Week
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Ennead Architects clads Central Park’s Delacorte Theater with reclaimed redwood from New York City water towers
In the middle of Central Park, an old theater has taken on a new look that might feel familiar to many New Yorkers. The Delacorte Theater—home to The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park—is now wrapped in vertical redwood slats reclaimed from 25 decommissioned New York City water towers. Read more
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Handel Architects armors Boston’s new Life Sciences Center at 2 Harbor with oversized folded panels
The new Life Sciences Center at 2 Harbor Street, located at the edge of Boston’s Marine Industrial Park, appears as a copper-orange grid. With reflective blue glass seeming to vanish against the sky, its facade of orange frames shifts in scale—squat at the base, taller higher up—such that the primary massing reads as 4 stories, though… Read more
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SOM alters the Gothenburg skyline with Karlatornet—Scandinavia’s tallest tower and pixelated icon
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At Facades+ Chicago, AEC experts weigh in on carbon, tariffs, and emerging workflows
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CannonDesign blurs undulations of opaque and transparent glass at UW–Milwaukee’s new Chemistry Building
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Facades+ returns to Toronto on September 26
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BIG alternates balcony types to form the jagged, illusory Kaktus Towers in Copenhagen
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OMA’s JOMOO Headquarters flexes white ceramic stripes angled in different directions
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Facades+ returns to Chicago on September 12
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Miller Hull clads the main floors of the Consulate General Guadalajara in glass to inspire an inviting visitor experience
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Facades+ brings dynamic programs to five cities this fall
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Gensler clads the Iron Workers Local 63 with an undulating curtain wall of tinted glass
