Miller Hull devises glazed Brise-soleil for U.S. embassy in Guatemala

Brought to you by: Design Architect: Miller Hull Partnership Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala Completion Date: 2023 View More Project Info In 1999 in an effort to improve embassy security, the U.S. State Department launched its Capital Security Construction Program. Since then the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) has completed 176

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

A locally-inspired material palette wraps facade of an English temple

Brought to you by: England’s South Downs National Park now features a public-facing complex designed by James Gorst Architects (JGA). Containing a temple, library, chapels, meeting spaces, a public foyer and catering kitchen, the complex, located in Rake, Hampshire, was completed last November. JGA was awarded the project in 2018 following a two-stage competition that

A facade influenced by modernism adds dimensionality to ETH Zurich’s campus

Brought to you by: Zurich-based Boltshauser Architekten turned to modernist influences when designing ETH Zurich’s GLC Research Building. The structure is located near the city center on the ETH’s main campus, which is anchored by a main Neoclassical building expanded with 20th-century additions. The GLC is part of the first phase of realizing a 2014

MJMA screens a glulam-structured community center with aluminum mesh

Brought to you by: In Mississauga, Ontario, a community center designed by MJMA combines local influences with a mass-timber structure. Located on a 50-acre site that was once used for agriculture, the Churchill Meadows Community Centre and Sports Park includes gyms, locker rooms, multipurpose spaces, and a pool within a 75,000-square-foot building. Most smaller programs

Facades+ returns to Houston with a program focused on prominent local buildings

Facades+ returns to Houston for the first time since 2015 on April 13. After successful events in Austin and Dallas in 2022, Facades+ is excited to present a technical program that caters to Houston’s local audience. AN has worked with co-chairs Luisina Basilico, principal at Page, and Rives Taylor, principal and co-director of design resilience

Neri&Hu extends the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts with a red travertine facade

Brought to you by: Neri&Hu’s extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts weaves contemporary design into a historic site, an act which reinterprets the standard of cultural monuments in Xi’an, China. Located south of the city’s Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, built in the 7th century, the project is a gateway of sorts for Xi’an’s

David Hotson Architect designs St. Sarkis Armenian Orthodox Church in Texas

Brought to you by: An impressive new complex for the St. Sarkis Armenian Orthodox Church in Carrollton, Texas, opened last year. The facility was designed by David Hotson Architect, a practice based in New York. Hotson’s office came to work on the project through Stepan Terzyan, an Armenian architect who had worked for him on projects

David Baker Architects screens a modularly constructed supportive housing project

Brought to you by: In response to San Francisco’s housing crisis, David Baker Architects (DBA) implemented a modular construction method and fast-tracked financing to deliver its Tahanan Supportive Housing complex. Located in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, the project’s 63,000 square feet of space are distributed across six stories and provide 145 apartments for

&bogdan brings the facade to the interior on a community center

Brought to you by: In Brussels, Belgium, Boulevard Leopold II, a major roadway that runs through the city’s Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Koekelberg neighborhoods, brings connectivity while also dividing the adjacent neighborhoods. Local architect &bogdan designed Amal Amjahid, a community center, to reactivate the areas immediately surrounding the thoroughfare with the intention to bring people together. The site, located on

EOA Architects casts concrete headquarters for Smyrna Ready Mix

Brought to you by: Tennessee-based Smyrna Ready Mix’s new headquarters features sculptural concrete forms inspired by the company’s production process. Located on an 800-acre site south of Nashville, the project was designed to be a landmark for the company’s new campus. The ready-mix company worked with local firm EOA Architects to realize the five-story, 84,000-square-foot

Facades+ will come to Atlanta on March 2

The Architect’s Newspaper is bringing Facades+ back to Atlanta on March 2. Featuring the latest projects across the Southeast, the conference will feature a full-day symposium. AN has worked with NELSON Worldwide director Henry Cantwell and regional mixed-use leader Tom Arsovski as co-chairs to bring together a program that spans from media facades to high-performing

Tulipwood louvers align on a Shoreditch office building

Brought to you by: Waugh Thistleton Architects’ Black and White building features timber inside and out. Designed to offer flexible workspaces in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood, the sleek-finned building contains 38,000 square feet of net internal area across six stories. The building is made from a beech laminated veneer lumber (LVL) frame and cross-laminated timber (CLT)

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

KPMB designs a concrete-columned addition to Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Brought to you by: In 1954, media magnate Lord Beaverbrook offered to open a public art gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to display his collection in the maritime provincial capital. Five years later, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opened across from the provincial Legislative Assembly building. The original modernist building was designed by local architects Howell

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

Facades+ will return to Washington, D.C. on February 14

Facades+ will return to Washington, D.C. for the first time in two years on February 14. The conference will bring a full-day program to the city for the first time; it will be co-chaired by Eric Feiss, a principal at GWWO Architects. Spanning from federal government projects to Washington’s first mass timber construction, the program