Building facades are no longer simple exterior walls. In modern architecture, the facade is a highly engineered system that controls light, heat, safety, and visual identity. It is the first element ...

When San Francisco’s Hallidie Building opened in 1918, it represented a feat of engineering as well as an exuberant expression of design. Architect Willis Polk devised a seven-story glass façade for ...

As a highly transparent material that stands up to all but the most extreme of weather conditions, is easily formed into any size or shape, and, once formed, will last for thousands of years, glass is ...

This office building in Geneva features a complex glass facade that makes it look like a shimmering urban mirage. The new Headquarters of the Swiss Société Privée de Gérance (SPG), designed by Italian ...

A new 10-story luxury residential building aims to stand apart from all others rising in Boca Raton, making its mark by showcasing the beauty of glass. Billed as the first modern glass building in the ...

Originally designed by English architect Sir Alfred Bossom in 1925 as a residential hotel, in its heyday, Dallas’ tallest ...

About an hour north of downtown Dallas, in the woody hills of the Cross Timbers, the sculptor George Tobolowsky has erected one of the more eccentric works of residential architecture in Texas, the ...

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