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North Elevation Looking Over Vine Street Expressway
Philly Facades

XS House marries fiber cement and corrugated metal with a stacked facade

Winter Visual Arts Building at Dusk
The Holl Package

Steven Holl Architects’s scalloped Winter Visual Arts Building showcases the first-ever two layer, u-plank facade

Image of installers repairing the Empire State Building
Extreme Construction

Restoration of the Empire State Building’s Art Deco crown nears completion

Exterior of the Brunel Building, a glass skyscraper covered in steel exoskeleton
Dizzying Diagrid

Fletcher Priest Architects and Arup bring structure to the fore at the Brunel Building

Image of the primary facade and pagoda-like form
Jammin Glulam

SOM blends mass timber and High Modernism with the pagoda-like Billie Jean King Library

Among the Trees

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater lets in the light with low-iron glass

Face Lift

Elkus Manfredi Architects restores and enhances the Little Building with UHPC and glazing bays

Layered glaze

3XN’s cube berlin harnesses natural ventilation with a planar double-skin glazed facade

Image of the Portland Building's entrance and sculpture
Retrofit Bliss

DLR Group reestablishes Michael Graves’s vision at the Portland Building

Aerial image of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in Houston
Dazzling Glaze

Steven Holl Architects tames the harsh Houston glare with clever massing and opaque tubular glass

The Comandante Ferraz Station with mountainous terrain in the background
The Weather Outside is Frightful

Estúdio 41 keeps the cold out of this Antarctic research station with sandwich panels and structural thermal breaks

The Cal Poly Pomona Student Services Building
Thermal Theories

Architects and manufacturers discuss glazing and new code requirements

Image of the Carnegie Library in Washington D.C.
Stone Surgery

Beyer Blinder Belle returns Washington, D.C.’s Carnegie Library to splendor with intensive masonry repair

An ontario public housing development in black and white, part of the tower Renewal Partnership
Raising Expectations

The Tower Renewal Partnership retrofits Southern Ontario’s concrete high-rises for a sustainable and affordable future

An angular glass building jutting through the trees
The Green Wave

WEISS/MANFREDI’s new building for Tulane makes the most of clear glass

Exterior of the project within the college campus, the Fine Arts + Design Studios
Kansas Design

BNIM’s glass-shrouded Fine Arts + Design Studios settles into the Great Plains

High Line Canyon

Installation of travertine panels at BIG’s twisting ‘The XI’ partially complete

Image of the Adidas World of Sports Arena within corporate campus
Floating Volume

Behnisch Architekten’s Adidas World Sports Arena balances views and shading with an aluminum veil

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