After the spectacular blaze at The Address Downtown Dubai hotel on New Year’s Eve, the spotlight is on aluminum composite panels which have been widely used to...
Building façades serve a dual purpose: they create the visual identity of a building, and, more importantly, repel the elements – wind, rain, heat, and cold – i...
There are two ways to effectively remove mineral deposit stains from glass: they are either chemically rubbed out with a non-acidic rubbing compound or burned ...
UNStudio’s design has been selected as the winning entry in the competition for the remodelling of the Hanwha headquarters building in Seoul. The renovation of ...
An innovative developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies hopes to soon be outfitting high-rise buildings with windows that gener...
2 Broadway in New York City is a high-rise office tower that opened in 1959 and was renovated in 1999. As part of the renovation, a new glass curtain wall with ...
As part of a $41-million renovation of the historic Tishman Building at 10 Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York, Berkowitz, an architectural glass fabricator, ...
Gamma, one of North America’s largest curtain wall, window wall, and recladding construction companies today announced a renaming of the group to “Gamma North A...
A building façade isn’t just about putting your best face forward. It also plays an important role in energy savings.
“Façade design is a vital aspect of bui...
Four elevations of aluminum facade are undergoing a complete restoration at 1201 Third Avenue, a 55-story office building in the heart of downtown Seattle. Buil...
On October 30 at 2:00 pm ET, the W.S. Tyler Architectural Group will host a complimentary hour-long webinar, "Designing Facades for Parking Facilities: Where Be...
A signature landmark in downtown Atlanta has been given new life and renewed curb appeal. Stuart Dean restored 136,000 sq. ft. of anodized aluminum curtain wall panels on the Equitable Building at 100 Peachtree Street NW. In addition to the cleaning and restoration of the anodized aluminum panels, the company also applied a high-performance fluropolymer coating to approximately 9,100 sq. ft. of columns and panels on the ground and second floors.
Located in the Fairlie-Poplar neighborhood of downtown Atlanta, the Equitable Building is 33 stories high and 453 feet tall.
Pasadena-based GDS Architects' 450-meter-tall (1,476-feet) Tower Infinity observation tower has received permit approval for construction near Incheon International Airport just outside of Seoul, Korea. The building's media facade will use a sophisticated system of LED screens that will project the surroundings to effectively camouflage the tower.
GDS in collaboration with Samoo Architects and A&U; were awarded first prize in a National Design Competition sponsored by Korea Land Housing to provide Design and Engineering services for the ambitious project which is poised to become Korea's National Landmark back in April 2011. In addition, GDS Architects won the original International Idea Competition out of 146 entries from 46 countries in December of 2008.
High levels of energy efficiency are all the more important when it comes to high-rise buildings. For the first time ever, a high-rise office tower, located in Vienna, Austria, has achieved the Passive House standard.
The Passive House concept represents today's highest energy standard with the promise of dramaticaly slashing heating energy consumption. A Passive House is a very well-insulated, virtually air-tight building that is primarily heated by passive solar gain and by internal gains from people, electrical equipment, etc. Energy losses are minimized.
Stuart Dean, a provider of architectural restoration services, is launching a renewed effort to grow its reach in the New York metropolitan market, the same cit...
MiTek Industries (MiTek), a Berkshire Hathaway company, and the world’s leading supplier of advanced engineered structural connector systems, equipment, softwar...
Media facades have become a firm feature of the 21st century metropolis, increasingly bathing gray cities in an imposing play of light and color. What once began with lurid neon advertising hoardings in New York's Times Square has grown beyond its initial purpose as a pure advertising medium to present itself today as a conveyor of artistic and social messages, transforming buildings into giant screens. There are now even architecture practices specializing in "mediatecture".
Lerch Bates, an international consulting firm for vertical transportation, façade access and materials management, has been selected by architecture firm AC Mar...
On November 18, 2012, a cigarette butt ignited the Tamweel Tower fire and quickly spread up the highly-flammable aluminum building facade. Hundreds of similar f...
New York City’s 230 Park Avenue was once considered a very tall structure in the Manhattan landscape, standing 34 storeys high. Yet within a very short time, it would be dwarfed by the towering Chrysler and Empire State buildings.
Despite being a Beaux-Arts marvel, with its golden cupola and various ornate moldings, it was rendered virtually invisible at night.
