425 Park Avenue telescopes skyward with diagrid glass

Some may know of 425 Park Avenue as the Manhattan address of a buzzy new restaurant location from Eleven Madison Park Michelin-star owners, but it is also the site of the (partially) new 47-story office building designed by Foster + Partners for L&L Holding Company. Almost nine years after a winner of the invitation-only design

Advances in float glass are enabling ever more flexible, ethereal facade expressions

Up until the mid-20th century, the incorporation of glazing into any project was an exorbitantly expensive decision and potentially fraught with error due to the irregularity of manufacturing processes. The development of float glass through the Pilkington process, which can be roughly described as rolling molten glass over a tin bath, has enabled continually growing

Jeffrey Abramson

Jeffrey Abramson, AIA, LEED AP has vast knowledge in the design, analysis and detailing of highly complex envelope systems. His project experience includes double skin façades, unitized and stick built curtain wall, and sloped glazing systems for institutional clients such as the Harvard Art Museums, Amherst College and University of Massachusetts Medical School. Jeff is

Pure+Freeform

Pure + FreeForm is a metal design studio specializing in bespoke finishes and cladding products for exterior and interior applications. We work closely with design teams to create site-specific finishes. Our aluminum cladding systems are 100% recyclable, use a minimum of 20% post-consumer recycled content, are VOC free and Red List free.

view of the bronze building from the center of the city, the new russian copper company headquarters

Foster + Partners’ Russian Copper Company headquarters echoes its namesake material

  Foster + Partners has completed a shimmering new headquarters for the Russian Copper Company, one of the world’s largest mining companies. The warm brown exterior echoes the building’s symbolic nature while reimagining the conventional office from the inside. In the small city of Yekaterinburg, the 15-story office tower sits on the landscaped bank of

Exterior of the menokin house, a historic brick building partially rebuilt with structural glass

The historic Menokin House gets a novel rewrapping in structural glass

  Historic preservation in the United States has often been cast in absolute terms: Structures and monuments are either subject to campaigns of complete restoration (which may entail partial reconstruction) or maintained as sublime ruins stabilized to withstand the ravages of time. A novel conservation scheme for an 18th-century plantation house on Virginia’s Northern Neck

The new home for columbia business school spans two glassy volumes

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Columbia Business School carves out a niche with crystalline curves

  ArchitectsDiller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXCollaborative Construction ManagerTurner Construction Exterior Enclosure ContractorW&W Glass Curtain WallAZA-INT Corporation GlassSedak Glass, AGC Interpane Glass Germany, Cricursa Spain, Pilkington Glass GFRGIDA Exterior Systems and DKI/David Kucera Inc.–GFRG DoorsEllison doors and Crane revolving doors Facade ConsultantArup Columbia University’s Manhattanville Campus expansion has ushered in a crystalline district

A long squat mies van der rohe building under construction

Thomas Phifer and Partners revives an unbuilt Mies van der Rohe project in Indiana

  ArchitectsThomas Phifer and Partners Structural EngineerSOM MEP EngineerCosentini Associates General ContractorCDI LocationBloomington, Indiana GlazingViracon Structural SteelMAK Steel WindowsWaltek LimestoneIndiana Limestone Fabricators TerrazzoSantarossa Mosaic and Tile Co. Indiana University (IU) is something of an architectural menagerie. The past century brought considerable change to its Romanesque-inflected Bloomington campus through the incursion of numerous modernist or Brutalist

a flat elevation of the east entrance with the colored wayfidning illuminating the checkerboard windows

The Aya delivers a new housing prototype with its four-faced facade

Facade ManufacturerACME YKK Architects Studio 27 Architecture LEO A DALY Structural EngineerRobert Silman Associates General ContractorBlue Skye Construction LocationWashington, D.C. Date of Completion2020 Systembrick and window wall ProductsACME – 50% Steel Gray Utility, 50% Ridgemar Velour Utility YKK YCW Curtainwall In an effort to improve services for homeless families in Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser

Michael Schulz, AIA

Michael is a licensed architect with 21 years of experience who has worked on a diverse spectrum of projects, from corporate interiors to buildings to bridges. He has managed large projects from design through construction and has developed an understanding of facilitating consensus amongst all parties involved. His attention to detail, strong work ethic, and

exterior corner shot of the kebonized wood scrim exterior with thin lighting illuminated at dusk at the new studio ma office

Studio Ma’s Phoenix office oasis is shrouded in a kebonized wood scrim

Adhering to their regenerative bioclimatic design ethos, Studio Ma has designed its own eco-conscious office in the desert to the same standards they uphold for their clients. The new 2,412-square-foot office transformed an undistinguished dentist’s office into a “net-zero energy and water” space that encourages walking and biking—an impressive feat considering the city of Phoenix averages temperatures over 85 degrees Fahrenheit seven

Kathleen Fogler, AIA

Kathleen leads our Urban Design Studio and is an Urban Designer and Architect with 15 years of national and international practice experience. Her urban design and development efforts focus on balancing transportation, natural resources and sustainable urban growth with the economic demands of the marketplace. Kathleen has led planning, urban design and entitlement efforts for

John McIntyre, ANZIA

John has over twenty of experience in award-winning, international design and has provided design leadership for cultural institutions, master plans, adaptive re-use and mixed-use developments in New York, Toronto, London and throughout New Zealand. Since joining Tryba John has led design teams for the Google Boulder Campus, BP Lower 48 Headquarters, the Denver Art Museum

Bart Miller, PE

Bart joined Walter P Moore in 2001 and led our multi-disciplinary teams in the delivery of large and high-profile projects in a variety of markets including sports, aviation, healthcare, convention centers, and education. He often leads large, multi-discipline, and multi-firm engineering teams by leveraging Walter P Moore’s vast experience and subject matter expertise, employing state-of-the-art,

Brandon Hall, AIA

Brandon is a Project Architect at Wheeler Kearns Architects. Brandon was responsible for the design through construction administration of the ‘new’ glass elements of The Momentary – which is the adaptive reuse of a decommissioned Kraft Foods plant into a vibrant facility for exhibition and performance in Bentonville, Arkansas. He has led several other institutional

Mark Chiu, R.A.

Mark Chiu joined Thornton Tomasetti in 2015 and has more than 14 years of experience in design of all types of exterior façade systems with a focus on sustainable design. He has in-depth knowledge and a specialization in building science, focusing his work on thermal performance of facades, high-performance and climate-specific design, and testing/analysis of