The Pacific Visions Aquarium lands ashore with a triple-laminated glass facade

In California’s Long Beach, a new biomorphic mass has surfaced along the waterfront. The semi-reflective blue…

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…

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…

An Estonian office block receives a splash of color with an aluminum mesh facade

Estonia-based architectural practice molumba has enlivened a suburban office block with a unique concrete and…

Morris Adjmi gives classic New York terra-cotta cladding a modern twist

Morris Adjmi Architects has just completed its wedge-shaped 363 Lafayette mixed-use development in New York City.…

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…

Undulating fins create a monumental entryway at the revamped Miami Beach Convention Center

The Miami Beach Convention Center is getting redesigned into a new 1.4-million-square-foot complex that will include an…

SOM rethinks city hall design with a new energy-efficient skin

SOM has designed a master plan for downtown Long Beach, California, which involves new mixed-use developments across a…

The Glasgow School of Art announces full restoration after second fire

Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is located on the summit of Renfrew Street, a…

This British mosque is structured with a flowering wooden lattice

In Cambridge, England, Marks Barfield Architects (MBA) is erecting a timber-structured mosque inspired by geometric…

SHoP’s American Copper Buildings wear a skin designed to age gracefully

  The aptly named American Copper Buildings, two copper-clad towers designed by SHoP Architects on Manhattan’s First Avenue between East 35th and…

This concrete screen wall was inspired by the proportions of camera lenses

The Fort Worth Camera building, a new photography studio and retail space, is surrounded by…

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…

Aluminum panels injected with air make EarthCam’s new campus glow

For nearly 20 years, EarthCam has documented projects by many of the world’s top design…

Sculpture studio at University of Arkansas celebrates the pre-engineered metal building

The sculpture studio facility for the University of Arkansas, a design collaboration between Modus Studio and El Dorado Inc.,…

A skin for the spectacular? It has to be ETFE.

From biodomes to Disney resorts, “Sheds” and stadiums, ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, better known as ETFE, has…

Vitrocsa

Vitrocsa is the Original, slim profile sliding system, invented in Switzerland in 1992. Also known…

Parking garage receives razzle-dazzle camouflage-inspired cladding

Inspired by a military camouflage technique dating back nearly 100 years, DAZZLE is a permanent…

Facades+AM in Washington, D.C. to spotlight the District’s particular building culture and challenges

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Washington, D.C. has a vibrant architectural culture, not…

Irish retrofit rediscovers golden rectangle proportioning systems

Located in Dublin’s historic D4 district, Eaton House serves as Eaton Corporation’s new global headquarters. It is located in…

Snøhetta’s Norwegian campus building features seawater-durable aluminum panels

Snøhetta’s design for the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) consolidates six previously scattered…

A closer look at lighting integration on Wilshire Grand’s spine

Over sixty years ago the original Wilshire Grand Hotel opened as the Hotel Statler, thanks…

Fabric screen connects tennis stadium to surrounding park

Located adjacent to the New York State Pavilion—the host of the 1964 World’s Fair—the USTA…

Olson Kundig Merges Western History and Modern Art

Richlite-clad museum expansion inspired by industrial context and Old West art collection. Commissioned to craft…