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06/09/2024

Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels

Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafted a half-circular housing block in Leiria, Portugal. The residential building was clad in concrete and aluminum panels.

06/09/2024

Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels
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06/09/2024

Save the date for October 4th, when Facades+ Chicago will return for a full day of inspiring presentations and networking at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel!

Come listen to our first panelists of the day, Tom Daly and Matt Gamache of Valerio Dewalt Train, talk about "Multi-Tasking Facade in a Post-Industrial Landscape" as they present on the new Ford Calumet Environmental Center.

Don't miss out on this conference! View our whole agenda and register NOW at https://facadesplus.com/chicago/

04/09/2024

The Architect’s Newspaper is bringing Facades+ back to Philadelphia on September 19. The event will showcase projects in Pennsylvania. It will host conversations on pleated glass, mass timber, and adaptive reuse strategies for historic facades.

The Architect’s Newspaper is bringing Facades+ back to Philadelphia on September 19. The event will showcase new and exciting projects in Pennsylvania. It will host conversations on pleated glass, mass timber, and adaptive reuse strategies for historic facades.

30/08/2024

Graphite Design Group uses expressive mullions to distinguish three office towers in Bellevue

Graphite Design Group has added three new office towers to downtown Bellevue, Washington, a satellite city of Seattle. Faced with a glass curtain wall, the three buildings were distinguished from one another through the use of unique mullion patterns.

30/08/2024

Graphite Design Group uses expressive mullions to distinguish three office towers in Bellevue


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29/08/2024

In just a few weeks, Facades+ will be returning to Philadelphia on September 19th! Take advantage of networking and hearing about some of the most impressive up-and-coming projects in the Philadelphia area and beyond.

Come listen to our excellent spotlight speaker, Nathan Hamilton from Allied Works, present on "Palmer Museum of Art - Weaving together art, landscape, and light."

This is a panel that you do not want to miss! Make sure you save your seat and register now at https://facadesplus.com/philadelphia/

23/08/2024

Ennead Architects covers a health facility in Philadelphia with “pleated” glass panels

Privacy as well as technical needs informed Ennead Architects’s core design decisions for the Jefferson Health Honickman Center in Philadelphia—a feat, given the building’s generous use of glass.

23/08/2024

Ennead Architects covers a health facility in Philadelphia with “pleated” glass panels


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23/08/2024

BIG adds a pair of twisting travertine towers along New York City’s High Line

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed One High Line, a pair of twisting, travertine-clad towers in Chelsea. To preserve sight lines from the High Line to the Hudson River, the facades of the two towers angle away from each other at their base.

23/08/2024

BIG adds a pair of twisting travertine towers along New York City’s High Line


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16/08/2024

Montgomery Sisam Architects and Moriyama Teshima Architects wrap Sheridan College Student Life Centre with aluminum shades

Montgomery Sisam Architects and Moriyama Teshima Architects wrap Sheridan College Student Life Centre with aluminum shades.

16/08/2024

Park Associati hones in on the craft of architectural glazing in two new projects for Luxottica in Milan

In Milan, Park Associati deleivered a new headquarters for Luxottica. The eyewear company’s effortlessly light glass volume is enclosed in a private courtyard and a an abandoned factory was coverted into Luxottica’s new Digital Factory.

16/08/2024

Montgomery Sisam Architects and Moriyama Teshima Architects wrap Sheridan College Student Life Centre with aluminum shades



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16/08/2024

Park Associati hones in on the craft of architectural glazing in two new projects for Luxottica in Milan


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15/08/2024

Join us next month on September 19th for Facades+ Philadelphia! Don't miss out on a full-day symposium featuring discussions on the latest AEC topics and trends.

Come listen to our excellent panels featuring Jon McCandlish and Ryan Wall, from Kieran Timberlake, discuss their project, "2300 Market: Adaptive Reuse Strategy for Historic Facades."

View the whole agenda and register NOW https://facadesplus.com/philadelphia/

14/08/2024

The U.S. Department of State announced today the title and commissioners for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale (). The exhibition, PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity (), will be co-commissioned by Peter MacKeith, dean of the Fay Jones School at University of Arkansas (); Susan Chin, founder of Design Connects; and Rod Bigelow of Crystal Bridges Museum ().

The show which opens May 24, 2025, will focus on “the porch as a central element in American architecture, highlighting its social, environmental, and democratic significance.”

As the title suggests, the exhibition will deliver a new temporary porch attached to the front of the U.S. Pavilion. This temporary structure will coalesce near designs by Marlon Blackwell of Marlon Blackwell Architects (); Stephen Burks of Stephen Burks Man Made (); Julie Bargmann of D.I.R.T. studio (); and Maura Rockcastle of Ten x Ten Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (). The Architect’s Newspaper will be the exhibition’s media partner.

Link in bio to read more.

09/08/2024

Perkins Eastman, PBDW Architects, and Mancini Duffy complete TSX Broadway, a tower wrapped by colorful LED screens




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09/08/2024

Perkins Eastman, PBDW Architects, and Mancini Duffy complete TSX Broadway, a tower wrapped by colorful LED screens

TSX Broadway, a recently completed mixed-use tower in the heart of Times Sqaure consists of a 47-story hotel constructed above the Palace Theatre. The over-100-year-old theater was lifted 30 feet using hydraulic jacks. The new hotel tower is wrapped in bands of LED lighting, and features massive adv...

02/08/2024

Handel Architects faces Harmony Commons, Canada’s largest passive house building, in metal rainscreen panels


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02/08/2024

Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls
https://www.archpaper.com/2024/08/makoto-yamaguchi-design-monospinal-slanted-aluminum-walls/

Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals office building MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls. The massing of the building in Tokyo takes the shape of an inverted pagoda.

02/08/2024

Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls


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02/08/2024

Handel Architects faces Harmony Commons, Canada’s largest passive house building, in metal rainscreen panels

Handel Architects faced Harmony Commons, Canada’s largest passive house building, in metal rainscreen panels. The project is a dormitory located on the University of Toronto’s Scarborough, Ontario campus.

01/08/2024

The July/August issue of The Architect’s Newspaper is out now. In addition to architecture news and reviews from across North America, the issue includes our annual Focus section on glass; and a feature section centering travel, recreation, and cultural heritage. The issue also includes some summer fun in the form of a puzzle and cartoon.
Scroll through to see images and spreads from the issue, and stay tuned to see the full contents in your mailbox or online over the next month.

Not yet a subscriber? Sign up on our website, https://www.archpaper.com/subscribe/ .

The publication is free for licensed architects and landscape architects.

26/07/2024

Gianni Botsford Architects designs a glass tower in China with a staggered profile and aluminum mullions

Gianni Botsford Architect designed a glass tower in China for OPPO, a Chinese electronics manufacturer, that features a staggered profile and curtain wall fixed with aluminum mullions.

26/07/2024

Gianni Botsford Architects designs a glass tower in China with a staggered profile and aluminum mullions


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19/07/2024

Beyer Blinder Belle uses brick and glass curtain wall for National Urban League Headquarters in Harlem

New York City–based design firm Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) has completed the Urban Empowerment Center, a new mixed-use development along Harlem’s 125th Street. The building’s two programs—commercial and residential—called for different facade expressions, curtain wall and brick.

19/07/2024

Beyer Blinder Belle uses brick and glass curtain wall for National Urban League Headquarters in Harlem


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19/07/2024

Populous faces Calgary’s BMO Centre with copper-colored metal panels

Designed by Populous, the new BMO Centre is clad in rusticated composite metal panels, a materiality that evokes associations to barn siding and belt buckles. Likewise, the building’s sweeping form was drawn from a bevy of nature-inspired metaphors.

19/07/2024

Populous faces Calgary’s BMO Centre with copper-colored metal panels


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