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Post-Recession, Las Vegas’ Builders are “Cautiously Aggressive”
Las Vegas is bouncing back from the recession with new construction, including Gensler’s 2013 renovation of The AXIS Theater inside Planet Hollywood. (Ryan Gobuty for Gensler) “It’s a fun time in Vegas...
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Gensler Goes Hollywood with “Vertical Campus”
The 14-story Icon at Sunset Boulevard will house office space for creative and entertainment professionals. (Courtesy Gensler) Hudson Pacific Properties is banking on the continued appeal of Hollywood...
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Gensler’s Kristopher Stuart on Houston’s Facades Scene
Facades+AM makes its Houston debut June 18. (Katie Haugland / Flickr) For Kristopher Stuart, design director and principal at Gensler, Houston‘s rapid evolution is exactly what makes practicing...
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Rafael de Cárdenas on the facade as an opportunity for identity and seduction
by Floto + Warner, courtesy Architecture at Large The 2800 sq. ft. flagship store opened ahead of Baccarat’s 250 year anniversary. Architecture at Large, a multi-disciplinary practice working within...
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NBA Store offers portal into world wide web of basketball culture
Brought to you with support from The NBA Store, occupying a 25,000-square-foot corner storefront on Fifth Avenue at 45th Street, offers an immersive shopping experience for NBA fans. The store,...
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First look at DS+R’s new 14-story “Study Cascade” at Columbia University...
Brought to you with support from The Vagelos Education Center is a new state-of-the-art medical and graduate education building at Columbia University Medical Center. The building, designed by...
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SHoP Architects brings aluminum luster to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
<►>SHoP introduced new formal shaping to the facade composed of over 4,700 brushed aluminum fins forming broad sweeping curvatures (Courtesy SHoP Architects) Facade Manufacturer Alucobond;...
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Facades+ Seattle will trace the rise of Pacific Northwest design
Olson Kundig recently completed a $100 million renovation of the Seattle Space Needle, and the firm will present at the upcoming Facades+ conference. (Chad Copeland) Over the last three decades,...
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Brooklyn waterfront office building features brick and glass curtain facades
<►>The east and west elevations of the project are clad in glass curtain wall while those to the north and south are draped with brick. (Courtesy 25 Kent) The Brooklyn waterfront is no stranger...
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Gensler’s Michael Volk and Olivier Sommerhalder discuss Facades+ LA and the...
Gensler principals Michael Volk (left) and Olivier Sommerhalder (right) are the co-chairs of this year’s Facades+ LA. (Courtesy Gensler) From November 14 to 15, Facades+ LA will bring regional,...
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Gensler keeps the glare out of this San Francisco retrofit with...
<►>The installed curtain wall units viewed from the west. By virtue of the unitized system’s design, the hoods could be attached at a later point. (Courtesy Permasteelisa) As the decades roll...
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Gensler’s Cadillac House Shanghai propels forward with an angled steel facade
<►>The facade, through its metallic cladding and dramatic angles, is intended to bear a resemblance to Cadillac’s product line. (Wang Dong) Over the last two decades, as the ownership of...
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A closer look at Gensler’s Capitol Federal Hall for the University of Kansas
<►>The University of Kansas’s School of Business Capitol Federal Hall was designed by Gensler and GastingerWalker& and clad in precast concrete panels. (Garrett Rowland) Resting in the Great...
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Houston’s Ion will transform a disused Sears into an Rice University-led...
<►>The retrofit included the partial demolition of the concrete mass to allow for the insertion of new curtain wall. (Courtesy Walter P Moore) The decades-long decline of retail across the...
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