High-Rise at NYC Hudson Yards Reaches Halfway

The high-rise dubbed 50 Hudson Yards, part of New York City’s $25 billion Hudson Yards development, has reached a construction milestone.

Firm Achieves Energy Nods with Glass Facade

For its design of a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill decided to chase the sun. And it paid off with a LEED Platinum certification earl...

Net-Zero Goals Spark Curtain Wall Development

Ontario’s Mohawk College is on course to open a new facility in the fall of 2018 that will be the first net-zero institutional building in the region.

What organization sets the highest performance standard for coatings over aluminum extrusions and panels?

True or False? Metal panels used as curtain-wall cladding are often coil-coated in the factory.

How much of the existing commercial building stock will be retrofitted with energy-efficient components (walls, curtain walls, roofs) in the next 10 years?

Facial Recognition: Does Your Building Facade Match Its Identity or Is It Time for a Facelift?

from D+D In Depth, August 2017 ; by ALLEN ZIELNIK, ATLAS MATERIAL TESTING TECHNOLOGY LLC

As the literal face of a building, a facade gives a structure its emotional character...

Dynamic Architectural Facades Combine Inventive Form and Function

from D+D In Depth, April 2017 ; by BILLY ROSBOTTOM, STO CORP.

Some architecture strives to create harmony between nature and the built world, but t...

Free Webinar: Painted Finish Considerations of ACM/MCM in Today’s Architecture

November 9, 2016

E-Book: Coatings for Architectural Metals: A Durability + Design Collection

Sponsored by LUMIFLON®

This eBook consists of articles from Durability + Design (D+D) and The Jour...

Architectural Coatings: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on architectural coatings.

Concrete: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on concrete coatings and maintenance.