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Hitting the Airwaves

Mark Cavagnero Associates adapts SF State media arts building to a fickle microclimate

detail of wood on a facade
Cold Weather Cladding

With a facade that resembles salmon skin, the Kenaitze Indian Tribe welcomes a new education center in Alaska

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Big Biophilia

BIG completes a planted tower in Singapore with a facade that pulls apart

Elevation rendering of a building
Humid Houston

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

The UCSF Joan and Sanford I. Weill Institute for Neuroscience, a boxy building with two flaring wings
Second Skin

Mark Cavagnero Associates shades the UCSF Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building with symmetrical light screen

The long, boxy Neutron Research Centre against the mountains of the alps
Shine On Like A Neutron

The white aluminum facade of the Neutron Research Centre shines in front of the French Alps

Straight And Narrow

The jagged facade of the Museum of Modern Aluminum is as dynamic as the city around it

exterior photo of a virgin hotel with diamond facade panels
A Double Diamond Course

Dallas’s new Virgin Hotel creates a diamond-esque view in the Design District

A rendering of Malachowsky Hall, with a crsyalline facade
Gainesville Gains

Malachowsky Hall deflects the Florida glare with an aluminum facade and electrochromatic glazing

Infinitus plaza, a spiraling corporate headquarters
Infinite Ducks

Zaha Hadid Architects’ Infinitus Plaza in Guangzhou blurs the line between outside and in

the exterior of a stone like facade on a flat building designed by Studio Anne Holtrop
Stacking Stones

Studio Anne Holtrop’s 35 Green Corner builds texture with sand-cast concrete and aluminum

A multifaceted blocky building at Ryerson University
Reach For The Sky

The Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex towers over Ryerson University with textured aluminum

the Air Force Academy Chapel under construction with half the spires unfinished
Up In The Air

The restoration of the Air Force Academy Chapel is the U.S.’s most complex modernist preservation project ever

300 Grant Avenue facade
Scrim Shaw

A slatted scrim system from MBH Architects breathes life into a historic San Francisco district

The Guangzhou Theatre with backdrop of the city skyline
Pearl River Delta Icon

Steven Chilton Architects’ Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre undulates with tessellated aluminum

Image of installers repairing the Empire State Building
Extreme Construction

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

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

Nighttime image of the John W. Olver Building
Tactile Timber

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

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