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An aerial photo of the newly renovated Space Needle's Top House.
Way Out West

This week in facades: Panoramic views and power plant news

Image of the Fitzroy looking upward.
Hand-Laid masonry

The Fitzroy harkens back to Old New York with art deco-inspired terra-cotta blocks

Model of a black ski lodge with rivers of windows
Bond Villain Lair

Tom Wiscombe Architecture’s Dark Chalet looms over Powder Mountain with black-on-black aluminum composite

Image of the Academy House on Oxford Street in London
London Calling

John Robertson Architects reclads the Academy House with ribbed and glazed terra-cotta and glass ribbons

Dusk image of the Phoenix Central Park
Botany Brick

John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers contort and corbel brick at Phoenix Central Park

Image of the Portland Building's entrance and sculpture
December 3

Facades+: Enclosure Innovations on the West Coast will highlight emerging trends and exemplary case studies

Aerial image of the Rubenstein Forum at Dusk
Post-Tensioned Session

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Rubenstein Forum features gargantuan bird-safe glass curtain walls with zinc frames

Construction image of the Ion in Houston
Lone Star Retrofit

Houston’s Ion will transform a disused Sears into an Rice University-led innovation hub

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

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