Reglaze or Replace?
Originally known as The Master Building, 310 Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Upper West Side is a 28-story tower completed in 1929 as an apartment…
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Thermal Performance of Closed Cavity Facades
Closed cavity facades (CCF), a configuration of Double Skin Facade (DSF), consists of a double-glazed unit on the inner layer and single glazing on
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Doubling Mies
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw… -
Retrofit Options for Historic Facades
Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact… -
Envelope For Service
Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to a… -
Renewing Historic Facades
As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the… -
Reduce, Reuse, Reclad
Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an… -
Hydroformed Shading
New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of… -
Carbon Lean Facades
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based… -
Sustainable Façades
Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent… -
Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit
Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt to… -
The First Triple Certified Facade
Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific… -
Facades for High-Performance Workplaces
How has the role of the façade evolved in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing fight to combat the climate change crisis? As companies grapple
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Window in Wall: Back to the Future
In order to get to a carbon neutral building stock – which is e.g. required by the EU Carbon roadmap by 2050 – our efforts need to be smart and… -
The Carbon Footprint of Aluminum Fenestration
The historical focus on reducing the carbon footprint of a building has recently shifted to include more emphasis on embodied carbon, the carbon… -
Separating Direct From Diffuse
An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration… -
Carbon-Neutral High-Rise Envelope Nexus
The pathway to carbon-neutrality, as urged during the COP 21 in Paris, and the repeated goal for resilient buildings and urban habitats, winds right… -
Orientation Specific Solar Control
During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design of… -
Duplex Stainless Steel Cladding
It was a challenging design problem: supply a sustainable material for roofing, soffit and fascia panels that would perform in close proximity to the… -
Academic Wood Tower Choreography
With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global…