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Q&A with StudioTJOA, Creator of the Award Winning Thermalswitch Facade
Inspired by the President’s Climate Action Plan and Architecture 2030 Challenge, Metals in Construction magazine and the OMINY tapped designers in late 2015 to create an eco‐friendly, highly transparent enclosure that preserves the aesthetic integrity of 200 Park Ave.
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Teaching Facades
<p>As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a…
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Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements
<p>Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern…
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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
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Specifying Electrochromic Glass
<p>Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about…
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Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls
<p>Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017…
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Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process
<p>Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the…
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Patchwork
<p>It may be difficult for modern man to believe that what is known as handicraft was once the advanced manufacturing of the day. These techniques…
