Behnisch Architekten’s Adidas World Sports Arena balances views and shading with an aluminum veil
Herzogenaurach is a small Bavarian town located just outside of Nuremberg, comprised of steeply-pitched half-timber structures, cobbled…
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PLP Architecture stitches together past and present with a stone-faced precast facade
The City of London, the historic core and central business district of the metropolitan region, is…
DXA Studio’s ‘The Maverick’ wraps up facade install of acid-etched precast concrete panels
DXA Studio, an architecture and design firm founded in 2011 by Jordan Rogove and Wayne…
AEC leaders discuss how they are pivoting through COVID-19 realities
The Architect’s Newspaper asked leaders in the AEC industry to discuss how COVID-19 has disrupted projects…
Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ UMass Amherst building mixes mass timber and copper-anodized aluminum
Mass timber projects are sprouting up across the United States. From the Pacific Northwest and…
Arte greets the South Florida shore with cantilevered balconies and operable walls
Arte, a 12-story, ziggurat-shaped luxury condo building, stands on the beach of Surfside, Florida, like some…
Wheeler Kearns Architects blends architectural heritage and religious symbolism at the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School
Constructed in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood just a few blocks west of Lake Michigan, the expansion of…
SOM’s Park Loggia complements the Upper West Side with subtly designed terra-cotta
Broadway is a competitive locale for any new tower. The avenue, running from Manhattan’s Bowling Green to…
The Harvard Business School’s Schwartz Pavilion opens with steel canopies and operable doors
Tucked beneath a stately London planetree in Harvard Business School’s new quadrangle in the Allston area of Boston is…
SHoP Architects scales up digital design-to-fabrication and project tracking at Botswana Innovation Hub
A veritable spaceship has landed on the outskirts of the Botswanan capital city of Gaborone,…
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…
The South Central Regional Library reflects Louisville’s landscape with a stainless steel facade
The South Central Regional Library, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is the second project realized through the…
KPMB Architects expands the Brearley School with brick and playful fenestration
Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood is something of an idiosyncrasy; it’s avenues are lined with a hodgepodge of…
The new OCMA wants to be a good neighbor
The new building for the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, California,…
Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven decks an Antwerp fire station in classically arranged bright red glazed brick
Fire stations are by their very nature pragmatic structures; multi-axle gargantuan trucks must be able…
Kliment Halsband Architects blends past and present at Friends Seminary
Facadism, the act of retaining a historic facade whilst fundamentally adapting a structure’s interior, is…
A closer look at the ETFE skin of DS+R and The Rockwell Group’s Bloomberg Building
Hudson Yards, the mega-development reshaping Manhattan’s Far West Side, needs little introduction; it has been…
MANICA’s Chase Center references San Francisco’s Mission Bay with a sail-like aluminum facade
The Chase Center, the new home for the Golden State Warriors, stands prominently in Mission…
Bruner/Cott & Associates deploy craftsmanship and historical research to restore Harvard Hall
It should come as no surprise that Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as it…
An innovative GFRP facade is a big part of the magic of the Lucas Museum
The form of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is suggestive and shape-shifting, not unlike the popular…
Facade engineers discuss the trend of custom repetitive manufacturing
Computer-aided manufacturing has revolutionized the field of facade production over the last decade. Dana K.…
Snøhetta’s book repository at Temple University tips its glazed hat to older campus buildings
In designing the Charles Library at Temple University in North Philadelphia, Snøhetta wanted to make a contemporary statement…
Custom porcelain facade tiles deliver high style to Centura Quebec’s industrial park showroom
High-end ceramic retailer Centura, based in Toronto, opened a new showroom and warehouse on the outskirts…
Gensler keeps the glare out of this San Francisco retrofit with fiber-reinforced polymer shades
As the decades roll on, public appreciation of post-war office buildings continues to wane, and…
