Who says the façade for a renovation and restoration project needs to be stodgy? Certainly not New York-based architecture firm ODA, which recently finished its conversion of the former Arbuckle Sugar ...

Facades are the faces of commercial buildings. They can be bold or bland, striking or dull, indifferent or engaging. They can build a brand or simply serve as functional fronts, especially in ...

Heating and cooling buildings is a major consumer of energy, especially older ones that weren’t built with modern energy efficiencies in mind. Now, engineers at Fraunhofer Institute have developed a ...

A building's façade acts as a first impression of the contents within. Is it chic and minimalist, or bold and expressive? Each year we're seeing more products hit the market that differentiate and ...

With advanced translucent façade systems, Kalwall helps architects revitalize buildings while improving daylight performance and energy efficiency. Its lightweight composite panels diffuse natural ...

If you walk through Midtown in New York City and look up, you’ll see a string of nondescript buildings towering over the street. Taken in as a whole, the buildings are mostly underwhelming—just ...

New York City’s building façade inspection process begins with a high wire act. Engineers, dangling from ropes, hundreds of feet in the air inspect the exterior of high-rise buildings. “You’re looking ...

CHINATOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A building in Chinatown was evacuated Wednesday for fear of collapse after a brick facade partially separated. The FDNY requested Department of Building inspectors to ...