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4 Cannon Street adjacent to Bracken House and clad in red sandstone
Wren You Know You Know

PLP Architecture stitches together past and present with a stone-faced precast facade

Detail of the facade looking upward
Janus Faced

DXA Studio’s ‘The Maverick’ wraps up facade install of acid-etched precast concrete panels

Nighttime image of the John W. Olver Building
Tactile Timber

Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ UMass Amherst building mixes mass timber and copper-anodized aluminum

Image of the Ellipse apartment building by Arquitectonica
Post-pandemic Practice

AEC leaders discuss how they are pivoting through COVID-19 realities

Facade Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day looking across soccer field
Chicago Tzitzit

Wheeler Kearns Architects blends architectural heritage and religious symbolism at the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School

The Arte looking upward at the balconies which overlook the shore
Florida Ziggurat

Arte greets the South Florida shore with cantilevered balconies and operable walls

Rising Clay

SOM’s Park Loggia complements the Upper West Side with subtly designed terra-cotta

Image of the Kansas University Business School and its concrete facade
Concrete and Steel

A closer look at Gensler’s Capitol Federal Hall for the University of Kansas

The Spaceship Has Landed

SHoP Architects scales up digital design-to-fabrication and project tracking at Botswana Innovation Hub

Let in the light

The Harvard Business School’s Schwartz Pavilion opens with steel canopies and operable doors

Image of the South Central Regional Library in Louisville Kentucky
Steel Yourself

The South Central Regional Library reflects Louisville’s landscape with a stainless steel facade

Robert Heintges
If Walls Could Talk

Q&A: Robert Heintges on taking risks and the value of a curtain wall

Image of the panel Achieving Cote and the panelists
Around the Zoomiverse

The Architect’s Newspaper shifts to online programming with Facades+: Design a High-Performance Facade

Rendering of the Orange County Museum of Art project from the exterior stair
Wavy Terra-cotta

The new Orange County Museum of Art wants to be a good neighbor

Detail of Brearley School in the context of Yorkville
Yorkville Neighbor

KPMB Architects expands the Brearley School with brick and playful fenestration

Image of the Humboldt Fitness Center within context of rural Missouri
A Prairie Home Companion

The Humboldt Fitness Center builds on prairie vernacular with diamond-shaped weathered steel

Image of the fire station's primary facade with grid of piers
Piers and Colonnades

Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven decks an Antwerp fire station in classically arranged bright red glazed brick

Image of the historic townhome facades of Friends Seminary
House of Quakers

Kliment Halsband Architects blends past and present at Friends Seminary