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,…
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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…
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…
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…
