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Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex, with a grated facade
Grate Design

Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex is wrapped in a shimmering second skin

exterior full height shot of the building
Modern Motherboard

425 Park Avenue telescopes skyward with diagrid glass

a monument rendered in etched glass slabs
Etch-A-Sketch

These crafty interventions blend in and stand out thanks to high-performance glass

Outside of a museum welcome center with curved and scalloped glazing
Curved reflections

Advances in float glass are enabling ever more flexible, ethereal facade expressions

An aerial photo of a curved glass building
Mister Worldwide

Snøhetta’s Le Monde headquarters spans a rail yard with variegated glass

view of the bronze building from the center of the city, the new russian copper company headquarters
Tons Of Triangles

Foster + Partners’ Russian Copper Company headquarters echoes its namesake material

Exterior of the menokin house, a historic brick building partially rebuilt with structural glass
History On Display

The historic Menokin House gets a novel rewrapping in structural glass

The new home for columbia business school spans two glassy volumes
Carving Through The Canyon

Diller Scofidio + Renfro and FXCollaborative’s Columbia Business School carves out a niche with crystalline curves

a flat elevation of the east entrance with the colored wayfidning illuminating the checkerboard windows
Four Faced Facade

The Aya delivers a new housing prototype with its four-faced facade

brightly colored glass highlights the extruded window bays and terracotta of the facade at dusk
Bulbous Bays

PBDW Architects’ bulbous East Harlem Cooke School sails toward the future of learning

a banner for Facades+ NYC with a headshot of John Cetra
Facades+ New York

Facades+ NYC co-chair John Cetra plans to bring a bit of the future to the conference

exterior corner shot of the kebonized wood scrim exterior with thin lighting illuminated at dusk at the new studio ma office
Office Oasis

Studio Ma’s Phoenix office oasis is shrouded in a kebonized wood scrim

east facade shot straight on showing the concrete supports at ground floor for the patio and main terra-cotta wall
A Lotta Terra-cotta

CO Architects showcases “clay’s anatomy” for its terra-cotta health building at UA

main entrance facade of 444 N Orleans with porcelain stucco and glazed black brick and stucco
Brick Showdown

Porcelain panels go head-to-head with Chicago’s historic brick at 444 N Orleans

scale of the flat windowless facade of the amant at the opening preview event
Brooklyn Brick

SO–IL’s Brooklyn Amant Foundation art campus embraces idiosyncrasies of clay and cement brick

A poster advertising facades+ dallas on july 22
Back in Person

AN sits down with co-chair Mark Holsinger for the first in person Facades+ conference of 2021

Image of One Steuart Lane from the San Francisco Bay
Travertine Bae

SOM’s One Steuart Lane faces the San Francisco Bay with stacked massing and travertine

corner shot of the building
Folding Fan

HGA’s marble panels fold into the future of mixed-use development

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