Archi-Tectonics’ Asian Games Park lands in Hangzhou with a steel diagrid of glass and brass shingles
New York based firm Archi-Tectonics has master-planned an eco-village in the heart of the bustling…
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Steven Chilton Architects’ Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre undulates with tessellated aluminum
The city of Guangzhou rests at the border of the Pearl River Delta and the…
Steven Holl Architects tames the harsh Houston glare with clever massing and opaque tubular glass
Houston is a city of contrasts where, because of a dearth of zoning codes, shimmering high-rises…
Q&A: Robert Heintges on taking risks and the value of a curtain wall
Robert Heintges is an influential architect and teacher who has advanced envelope design through his…
Gensler’s Cadillac House Shanghai propels forward with an angled steel facade
Over the last two decades, as the ownership of American and European-produced cars has proliferated…
Engineers describe their most innovative timber projects
AN surveyed some of the leading practices in timber structure and facade engineering about the most innovative projects…
SOM’s Tianjin CTF Finance Centre meets the breeze with a biomorphic form
For what will be the eighth-tallest building in the world when finished in Tianjin, China,…
UCCA Dune Museum burrows into a Chinese beach
On a beach in northern China, light cannons emerge from the tops of a dune,…
Hong Kong’s newest opera house makes waves with an aluminum fin facade
The Xiqu Cultural Center, located in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district, was developed as a regional hub for…
Bernard Tschumi Architects’ Exploratorium Museum bulges with cones of perforated aluminum panels
With an imposing set of towers rising from a tabula rasa-like setting, one could at…
Land Rover’s Shanghai Offices keeps the sun out with a diaphanous ceramic frit
The district of Pudong in Shanghai has exploded over the last two decades with approximately 10 percent…
Thousands of terra-cotta louvers shade the Fuzhou Strait Culture and Art Centre
Five years ago, Fuzhou hosted an international competition for a new cultural center to affirm…
Facades+AM Atlanta spotlights the city’s dynamic contemporary growth
Commonly known as the capital of the New South, Metropolitan Atlanta is one of the largest cities…
The Shui Cultural Center connects to traditional life through copper and concrete
Opened to the public in December 2017, West-Line Studio’s Shui Cultural Center is an imposing complex…
Morphosis founder Thom Mayne on the future of facades
From October 25 to October 26, The Architect’s Newspaper is hosting its Facades+ conference in Los Angeles…
BIG’s Shenzhen International Energy Mansion looks better than the renderings
Long after the golden era of corporate modernist skyscrapers (think Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram…
