Facades+ returns to New York City on April 4 and 5

Facades+ New York City returns on April 4 and 5. This year’s program will be led by Henning Larsen’s New York office. Co-chairing the event are Daniel Baumann, design director; Sebastian Hofmeister, senior associate; and Kritika Kharbanda, the firm’s lead sustainability specialist.  Getting Sustainability Done In New York City  Facades+ New York will kick off…

Facades+ returns to Washington, D.C. on March 20

The Facades+ conference series returns to Washington, D.C. on March 20. The event will take place at the Washington Plaza Hotel in the heart of the nation’s capital. The one-day symposium will be led by co-chairs Jason Wright, principal at Hickok Cole; and Thomas Corrado, associate principal at Hickok Cole. The event will feature eight

luis vidal + architects tops Logan Airport with a red volume

Brought to you by: Architect: luis vidal + architects Completion Date: October 2023 Location: Boston View More Project Info luis vidal + architects has delivered an expansion to Terminal E, the international concourse at Boston’s Logan International Airport. The project incorporates renovated portions of the existing terminal into a new structure—resulting in a cumulative 390,000

SOM equips Volpe Transportation Center with aluminum fins

Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Completion Date:2023 View More Project Info SOM has conceived a new home for the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The curtain wall facade is covered by vertical aluminum shades modeled after the wings and fins of aircrafts in a nod to

BIG unveils The Spiral, a glass tower wrapped with climbing balconies

Brought to you by: Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Location: New York Completion Date: 2023 Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is responsible for the latest addition to Hudson Yards, a supertall glass skyscraper named The Spiral for the ascending terraces lining its facade. The building sits on West 34th Street, straddling 10th Avenue and Hudson Boulevard

Payette crafts operable stainless steel fins for Northeastern’s EXP building

Brought to you by: Architect: Payette Location: Boston Completion Date: 2023 EXP, a brand new science facility for Northeastern University, opened to students earlier this year. Located between Boston’s Roxbury and Fenway neighborhoods, EXP, designed by Payette, allows for the expansion of the school’s scientific research and education programs. The research and laboratory building is

LEVENBETTS design pleated aluminum facade for East Flatbush Library

Brought to you by: Architect: LEVENBETTS Completion Date: June, 2023 Location: Brooklyn, New York The Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) East Flatbush Branch reopened in June after significant renovations led by LEVENBETTS, a New York City–based architectural practice that designed the building with input from librarians and community members. While a primary design goal of the

Vertical panels of copper wrap AiF’s 37 Hillside Senior Apartments

Brought to you by: Architect: Architecture in Formation Location:New York Completion Date:2023 New York City–based firm Architecture in Formation (AiF) has delivered 164 units of 100 percent affordable housing to Inwood, a neighborhood on the Northern tip of Manhattan. The 37 Hillside Senior Apartments sit on a sloped site which was formerly occupied by a mid-century chapel, Rocky

Concrete setbacks define SOM’s 1245 Broadway office tower

Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Location: New York City Completion Date: 2022 On the northern edge of the New York City’s NoMad neighborhood stands SOM’s recently completed 1245 Broadway, an office tower designed to resemble the wedding cake buildings which came to define Manhattan’s architecture in the 20th century. The tower features large spans

Oversized glass panels repeat across ODA’s 101 West 14th Street

Brought to you by: Architect: ODA Location: New York Completion Date: 2023 In Manhattan, where Greenwich Village, West Village, Union Square and Chelsea merge is 101 West 14th Street. The residential building designed by ODA Architecture and developed by Gemini Rosemont Development aimed to create a heightened occupant experience. The condominium offers 10,000 square feet

Studio V’s The Green House uses terra-cotta cladding

Brought to you by: Architect: Studio V Location: Long Island City, Queens, New York Completion Date: May 2023 The Green House, a 12-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens completed earlier this year. Designed by New York City architectural firm Studio V, the project is clad in terra-cotta panels, paying homage to New York Architectural

Weiss/Manfredi uses frits and fins to clad a tower for MIT

Brought to you by: Design Architect: Weiss/Manfredi Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts View More Project Info Across the Charles River from Boston, a spate of recent projects has altered the skyline of Cambridge’s Kendall Square neighborhood. MIT Kendall Square Site 5, designed by New York–based firm Weiss/Manfredi, is one such project, and it makes its presence known

Facades+ returns to Boston on July 12

The Architect’s Newspaper is bringing Facades+ back to Boston on July 12. The conference will highlight the most exciting projects in New England and feature high level conversations covering local building codes and commissioning. AN worked with Bradford Prestbo, director of Studio NYL’s Boston office as the conference’s co-chair. Click here to view additional information

A curtain wall is attuned to the needs of NYU’s John A. Paulson Center

Brought to you by: A new building at New York University (NYU) situated at the southern edge of the urban campus responds to the school’s identity and the character and vitality of the neighborhood. The heavily programmed John A. Paulson Center houses student dormitories, faculty apartments, academic spaces, several performance and rehearsal venues, and a

Facades+ to bring envelope excellence back to New York City

Brought to you by: Facades+ returns to New York for AN’s largest conference of the year on March 30 and 31. In its 11th edition, the conference will feature a full-day symposium on March 30 and workshop sessions on March 31. Highlighting the best in envelope design, the conference will emphasize the importance of embodied carbon,

Alexander Gorlin Architects designs a modernist facade in The Bronx

Brought to you by: Continuing two decades of work on affordable housing in New York, Alexander Gorlin Architects’ latest multifamily project, El Borinquen Residence, brings a modernist face to The Bronx’s Morrisania neighborhood. Named after the Taíno name for Puerto Rico, the project has brought 148 units to the primarily Latino neighborhood. Covering 90,000 square

Eskew + Dumez + Ripple draws from quarries for Bruce Museum addition

Brought to you by: At the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, science and art intertwine in more ways than one. New Orleans–based firm Eskew + Dumez + Ripple has designed a new wing for the museum faced with precast concrete panels and glass. The addition’s stonework references the striated geological bedrock found in local quarries