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Magic in the Making

SOM’s green terra-cotta facade for Disney’s New York headquarters takes shape

Google's campus with water in the foreground
Google Power

Heatherwick Studio and BIG transform flat-roof Swiss solar shingles from barn to bay

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Making Connections

SGA designs a tree-inspired glass facade to connect two historic buildings at Vanderbilt University

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Midrise In Midtown

Hill West’s subtly designed 7 West 57th features an oblique glass facade

Two glass towers in a skyline
Design in Dallas

Architects will explore climate-responsive design at Facades+ Dallas

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Paulistano Paradise

Safdie Architects emulates a tree canopy within São Paulo’s Albert Einstein Education and Research Center

Community Cladding

Leroy Street Studio works with students to design a facade for affordable housing in the Lower East Side

Elevation of a hospital at night
Punishing Pollutants

Milanese hospital breaks down city smog with titanium dioxide coated porcelain louvers

elevation of library
Finnish Facade

JKMM revamps a 1980s public library in Finland with a copper-clad expansion

Facade under construction
Loggias Land in Lower Manhattan

RSHP’s first residential building in New York brings understated luxury to a high profile corner

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Extra, Extra

KieranTimberlake restores monumentality to Philadelphia’s Bulletin Building with a new facade

Elevation of academic building
R&R

Paul Revere Williams’ UCLA building gets a refresh and retrofit from CO Architects

Elevation rendering of a building
Humid Houston

Kevin Daly Architects and PRODUCTORA’s Houston Endowment headquarters will bring net-zero design to Texas

front view of terra-cotta brick building with windoes
A Lotta Terra-Cotta

BKSK Architects realizes terra-cotta facade on an Upper West Side residential building

Elevation of museum
Floating Facade

Chinese Museum of Traditional Culture facade “floats” above Beijing’s Central Axis

Elevation shot of a residential building
Basque-ing In Its Glory

Metal mesh screens reduce solar gain on Spain’s largest wood-framed residential building

Birdseye view of an office building near a lake
On a Clear Day

Cascading glass wraps mass timber office building in Kirkland by LMN Architects

Campus dormitory
Open, Closed, and In Between

Kengo Kuma utilizes modular assembly for student housing in Switzerland

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