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…
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The Eisenhower Memorial awes with steel mesh and abundant light
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. was completed at the tail end of summer…
COOKFOX’s 25 Park Row joins Lower Manhattan with fluted concrete and dramatic massing
COOKFOX Architects has been busy lately. The New York-based architecture firm has completed or is just wrapping…
Trahan Architects’ 309 Magazine Street infills with monumental steel and poured concrete
Architectural preservation is often a continued struggle between human-made constructs and the inexorable forces of…
Olson Kundig talks kinetic design, new projects, and our Facades+ conference
Leading up to this week’s Facades+ West Conference on Thursday and Friday, AN caught up with its two co-chairs,…
The Fitzroy harkens back to Old New York with art deco-inspired terra-cotta blocks
A stroll through New York neighborhoods subject to feverish developments, from Downtown Brooklyn to Central Park South,…
Tom Wiscombe Architecture’s Dark Chalet looms over Powder Mountain with black-on-black aluminum composite
A black aeronautic mass is taking shape in Utah’s Wasatch Range. Dubbed the Dark Chalet,…
John Robertson Architects reclads the Academy House with ribbed and glazed terra-cotta and glass ribbons
London’s Oxford Street is the primary commercial corridor of the West End, running for a mile…
Facades+: Enclosure Innovations on the West Coast will highlight emerging trends and exemplary case studies
From Southern California to the Puget Sound, the American West Coast is home to some…
John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers contort and corbel brick at Phoenix Central Park
Perched on the Tasman Sea in the South Pacific Ocean, Sydney is the largest city in Australia…
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Rubenstein Forum features gargantuan bird-safe glass curtain walls with zinc frames
Under present circumstances, the act of gathering through conferences and summits is a hazy memory.…
Restoration of the Empire State Building’s Art Deco crown nears completion
New York City’s skyline is forever adapting, thrusting ever higher upwards as a jostling amalgam of…
Fletcher Priest Architects and Arup bring structure to the fore at the Brunel Building
London, as a millennia-old metropolis and the former gravitational center of the world’s first industrialized…
SOM blends mass timber and High Modernism with the pagoda-like Billie Jean King Library
The Billie Jean King Library is an impressive civic monument located in Downtown Long Beach, California,…
Elkus Manfredi Architects restores and enhances the Little Building with UHPC and glazing bays
As one of the oldest cities within the United States, Boston is, unsurprisingly, home to a vast…
3XN’s cube berlin harnesses natural ventilation with a planar double-skin glazed facade
Resembling both a cartoonishly large paperweight and a monumental mirror, cube berlin doesn’t look 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…
DLR Group reestablishes Michael Graves’s vision at the Portland Building
The Portland Building, located in the downtown of its eponymous city, is hard to ignore.…
Estúdio 41 keeps the cold out of this Antarctic research station with sandwich panels and structural thermal breaks
It is difficult to conjure a more challenging setting than Antarctica for the design and construction of structure suitable…
The Tower Renewal Partnership retrofits Southern Ontario’s concrete high-rises for a sustainable and affordable future
In the decades following World War II, countries across the globe embarked on campaigns of…
Architects and manufacturers discuss glazing and new code requirements
Over the past year and a half, several states, including New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois,…
Beyer Blinder Belle returns Washington, D.C.’s Carnegie Library to splendor with intensive masonry repair
As the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., is chock full of seats of government, monuments, and civic…
BNIM’s glass-shrouded Fine Arts + Design Studios settles into the Great Plains
Overland Park, Kansas, is a small city located squarely between Lawrence and Kansas City, just south…
WEISS/MANFREDI’s new building for Tulane makes the most of clear glass
For The Commons, Tulane University’s new campus hub, WEISS/MANFREDI designed a glass facade that avoids clichés despite…
