In designing Tian Fang tower, a nearly 300,000-square-foot mixed-use commercial building for Eco-City, Tianjin, China, a joint development between China and Singapore, international architect Kevin Kennon, based in New York, paid special attention to the building’s relationship to its site and daylighting, among other features. Standing more than 650 feet tall, the office tower and [...]

Alcon Builders Group has created a new luxury townhouse in Tribeca that combines a complete interior redesign of a landmark-status, two-story 1915 brick building with new construction of an adjacent six-story, steel-framed, fiber and cement tower. “This perfect marriage of old and new is living proof that a building can feature every smart, state-of-the-art aspect [...]

Opened in October 2010, the $260 million glass-clad Rady Children’s Hospital Acute Care Pavilion in San Diego officially has been LEED® Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. Designed by Stantec and built by McCarthy Building Companies Inc. the 279,000-square-foot facility is the first acute care hospital in the state to meet the standards of [...]

In many architectural creations, the glass itself often becomes an artistic showpiece, demanding attention, glances and glimpses from those passing by or, in the case of the Beaux Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, walking across. Designed by New York firm Ennead Architects LLP, the museum features a glass floor that measures approximately [...]

Glass and glazing played a significant part in one Air National Guard building. In September 2010, the Air National Guard dedicated its new Readiness Center building at Joint Base Andrews to a former ANG director, Maj. Gen. Donald Shepperd. Now known as Shepperd Hall, the four-story, $52 million project features a blast-hazard mitigating curtainwall system [...]

Thanks to a $13-million gift from The Otis Booth Foundation, the Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County is going forward with a light-filled, three-story entrance pavilion designed by Los Angeles-based CO Architects. The new, glass-walled Otis Booth Pavilion will exhibit one of the museum’s signature holdings, a 63-foot-long fin whale skeleton, and will [...]

Views, daylighting and energy efficiency were important design elements for the Denver office of Heery International, which designed the expansion for the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo. High-performance glazing systems helped the architects achieve this goal. Featuring 21,265 square feet of the HP-Wall Series supplied by Wausau Window and Wall Systems, structural consultant, [...]

The Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse in Denver is on track to receive LEED gold certification with the help of a Kawneer curtainwall. The Kawneer 1600 SS Unitwall™ curtainwall helped the building reach maximum daylighting and recycled materials used also boosted the LEED certification. The architects, klipp Architecture Planning Interiors, chose the use of glass and a curtainwall [...]

Yas Island (Abu Dhabi) has become home to Ferrari World’s newest complex. The complex features 10,000 meters of solar control glass that were used to create a “funnel” of daylight in the center. The solar control glass allows the facility to use natural daylight, but also maintain a comfortable temperature for those inside. Made of [...]

Fans of the University of Michigan’s Wolverines were welcomed into the 2010 Football Season with a newly renovated stadium featuring several high-performance products from Kawneer Company, Inc., an Alcoa business The stadium, known as “The Big House,” seats more than 108,000 people and is currently the largest college-owned stadium in the United States. The 400,000-square-foot [...]