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Image of installers repairing the Empire State Building

Extreme Construction

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

October 16, 2020 • East, Facades+

People jogging by the sculptural concrete pots of little island

Natural’s Sorta In It

Heatherwick Studio and MNLA bridge structure and botany at Little Island

October 12, 2020 • East, In Construction, Landscape Architecture

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

October 9, 2020 • Facades+, International

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

October 1, 2020 • Facades+, West

Face Lift

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

September 25, 2020 • East, Facades+

Image of the Portland Building's entrance and sculpture

Retrofit Bliss

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

September 18, 2020 • Facades+, West

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

September 17, 2020 • Facades+, In Detail, Southwest

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

September 9, 2020 • Facades+, International

Interdisciplinary Outlook

Omar Khan discusses his transition to leading the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture

September 9, 2020 • East, Education, Q+A

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

September 3, 2020 • East, Facades+

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

September 3, 2020 • Facades+, Feature, International, Urbanism

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

August 28, 2020 • Facades+, Midwest

High Line Canyon

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

August 20, 2020 • East, Facades+

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

August 20, 2020 • Facades+, International

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

August 13, 2020 • Facades+, International

Detail of the facade looking upward

Janus Faced

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

August 13, 2020 • East, Facades+

Nighttime image of the John W. Olver Building

Tactile Timber

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

August 6, 2020 • Facades+

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

July 29, 2020 • Facades+, Midwest

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