Architects and manufacturers discuss glazing and new code requirements
Over the past year and a half, several states, including New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois,…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BIG and LEO A DALY’s The Heights stacks and twist brick volumes outside of D.C.
The Heights, located in Arlington, Virginia just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., is a…
Rossetti lets light into the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center with sawtooth glazing
Detroit is undergoing something of a revival; the center of the city is registering consistent population…
Barozzi Veiga’s Tanzhaus Cultural Center borders the riverbank with tiers of concrete
The Tanzhaus Cultural Center is located on the banks of the Limmat River in the…
Elkus Manfredi Architects’ Pier 4 joins Boston’s Seaport with undulating massing
Boston’s Seaport District is no stranger to development; the 23-acre site lies east of the…
A Norwegian town hall nestles into its surroundings with Jura limestone
Constructed in the heart of Bodø, Norway, a new town hall designed by Atelier Lorentzen Langkilde (ALL) delivers…
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…
LEVER Architecture’s Thomas Robinson discusses architecture and engineering in Oregon
The Pacific Northwest is home to a thriving architecture and design community that is shaping…
