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Ephemeral Field House by design/buildLAB
Students enrolled in Virginia Tech’s design/buildLAB designed and built Sharon Fieldhouse over the course of an academic year. (Jeff Goldberg/ESTO) Virginia Tech students demonstrate a light touch with...
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Jaklitsch/Gardner’s Three-Part Ode to Tokyo
Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects’ flagship Tokyo store for Marc Jacobs features a lantern-like, non-occupiable top story sheathed in punched aluminum. (Liao Yusheng) Marc Jacobs flagship store features a...
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Ag School Update by Urbahn Architects
Farmingdale State College’s new School of Business marks the college’s shift in focus from agriculture to science and technology. (Courtesy Urbahn Architects) Concrete, glass, and brick facade balances...
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Alpine Factory by Barkow Leibinger
Barkow Leibinger’s HAWE-Werk Kaufbeuren was inspired by Le Corbusier’s concept of the “green factory.” (David Franck) A geometric corrugated metal and glass facade integrates industry and nature....
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Perkins+Will Builds a Sustainability Beacon
Perkins+Will designed UBC’s Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability to communicate net positive building strategies. (Martin Tessler / Courtesy Perkins+Will) Building technology research...
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LS3P Wraps Live Oak Bank in Cypress
Live Oak Bank’s new headquarters features cypress cladding and plentiful glazing. (Mark Herboth Photography) Wood siding and high performance glazing invite nature into the workplace. For their new...
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Glass and Concrete Arts Center by Machado and Silvetti
Hamilton College, Kennedy Center, Location: Clinton NY, Architect: Machado Silvetti Architects Curved curtain wall and textured composite rain screen create a new focal point on the Hamilton College...
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Mecanoo Brings Dutch Craftsmanship to Boston
Mecanoo and Sasaki’s Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building features a curved brick and glass envelope. (Courtesy Mecanoo) Curving brick and glass facade heralds Roxbury’s resurgence. By locating their...
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VDTA’s Taut-Skinned Godfrey Hotel
VDTA’s Godfrey Hotel features a slick skin of insulated metal panels and glass. (Steve Hall) Metal and glass accentuate Chicago high-rise’s iconic form. Given the odds stacked against it, Godfrey...
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Muñoz & Company Quilt with Glass and Masonry
Multicolored glass curtain walls embody the quilt metaphor at the heart of Muñoz & Company’s Billy Dade Middle School. (Courtesy Muñoz & Company) Envelope inspired by history of Dallas’...
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Elkus Manfredi Architects’ Pier 4 joins Boston’s Seaport with undulating massing
<►>Pier 4, designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, is located in the Seaport District of Boston. (Magda Biernat) Boston’s Seaport District is no stranger to development; the 23-acre site lies...
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Rossetti lets light into the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center...
<►>The Performance Center follows the rectangular massing of the industrial structures that make up the architectural heritage of Detroit. (James Haefner) Detroit is undergoing something of a...
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Snøhetta’s book repository at Temple University tips its glazed hat to older...
<►>The Charles Library’s glass-encased fourth floor looks out into a lush, meadow- like green roof that's one of the largest in Pennsylvania. (Michael Grimm) In designing the Charles Library at...
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Q&A: Robert Heintges on taking risks and the value of a curtain wall
Robert A. Heintges, founding principal of the international building envelope and curtain wall consultancy Heintges, instructs students in the Totalization studio at the Rice University School of...
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WEISS/MANFREDI’s new building for Tulane makes the most of clear glass
<►>The Commons sits at the heart of Tulane’s campus, and the building seems to shimmer as pedestrians walk by on leafy pathways that surround it. (Courtesy Tulane University-PBURCH) For The...
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BNIM’s glass-shrouded Fine Arts + Design Studios settles into the Great Plains
<►>Completed in 2019, BNIM’s Fine Arts + Design Studios is the newest addition to the campus of Johnson County Community College. (Nick Merrick | Hall+Merrick) Overland Park, Kansas, is a small...
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Architects and manufacturers discuss glazing and new code requirements
Over the past year and a half, several states, including New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois, have adopted the measures of the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) for buildings in...
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Elkus Manfredi Architects restores and enhances the Little Building with UHPC...
<►>The building’s light wells were transformed into usable space through the insertion of glass volumes. (Elkus Manfredi Architects) As one of the oldest cities within the United States, Boston...
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Steven Holl Architects’s scalloped Winter Visual Arts Building showcases the...
<►>The design is made possible through a lightweight, two-story ‘box-kite’ steel frame where the entire roof structure is exposed. (Photography by Paul Warchol) The new Winter Visual Arts...
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Houston’s Ion will transform a disused Sears into an Rice University-led...
<►>The retrofit included the partial demolition of the concrete mass to allow for the insertion of new curtain wall. (Courtesy Walter P Moore) The decades-long decline of retail across the...
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