Preserving a Historic Facade
Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former Ma…
Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former Ma…
Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact conditi…
St. Patrick’s Cathedral’s Lady Chapel glass wall and the Trinity Church glazed canopy demonstrate that structural glass can be a great solution to improve the functionality of a historic building without competing with its original fabric.
Historically, the material advantages of aluminum have resulted in its widespread application as curtain wall framing. But amidst the 21st century push for increased energy performance, aluminum is also characterized by problematic thermal properties and a high-embodied energy profile.
The historical focus on reducing the carbon footprint of a building has recently shifted to include more emphasis on embodied carbon, the carbon emit…
In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of movement. …
This paper presents new historical research on the concrete facade of an important but relatively unknown and now demolished building by the American…
The National Institute of Building Sciences is gearing up for the industry’s only conference for the entire building community to connect, collaborate, and design solutions for the built environment – and we are looking for speakers.
To ensure the safety of U.S diplomatic personnel overseas, the U.S Department of State (DoS) has developed facade retrofits capable of resisting high…
This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and complet…
Special guests Uta Pottgiesser of TU Delft and Angel Ayón of AYON Studio Architecture and Preservation discuss their recent book, Reglazing Modernism, where they explore facade intervention strategies on Modern-era buildings through international case studies.
In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of wa…
Daylighting & Solar Glare control, which affect both the energy consumption of the building as well as the comfort of the occupants, become rathe…
Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address …