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  • Delivering Beauty

    Amidst the critical conversations about the need to build better and more efficient building skins, designers are also mindful of the need for the

  • Celebrating Diversity in Architecture

    Prior to the summer of 2020 many people and organizations in the architecture/design industry spent time calling attention to the lack of diversity. While we are aware it affects many industries, I can only write and speak with accuracy to what happens in the industry I work in.

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    The First Triple Certified Facade

    <p>Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific…

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    Elliptical Ways

    <p>Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At…

  • OpenFacadeControl

    Automated facades are, for the most part, still considered as separate from other building systems throughout the design, installation,

  • Hydroformed Shading

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of

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    Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    <p>Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational…

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    Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    <p>Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design…

  • Mapping Advanced Facades

    This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from

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    Thinking About Facades

    <p>There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the…

  • North Capitol Building Case Study

    The Utah State Capitol North Building, currently under construction, features 80,000 SF of classically designed cubic granite detailing, including

  • Facade Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies

    Facades are increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to whole-building embodied carbon. While designers know how to reduce the embodied

  • The Vertical Campus Facade

    <p>Case study of the recently opened John A. Paulson Center for New York University in Manhattan reviews design solutions of façade depth and scale…

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,