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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

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

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