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Source: José F. García Martín

Murcia City Hall, Murcia, Spain, 1998 designed by Rafael Moneo

The façade/retable of the Town Hall facing the square could never, nor would ever, want to compete with the classical order. It's organised as a musical score, numerically, accepting the system of horizontal levels of the floor slabs. The façade resist symmetries and offers as its key element the balcony of the gallery. -- MIMAO

Source: Te-Ming Chang

Lafayette Corporate Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA designed by ADD Inc

The new skin reorients stores outward to engage pedestrian traffic and adds three stories of office space above to restore the roof lines to those of the street's original structures. -- architect's web site

Source: archdaily.com

University of Twente Campus buildings, Enschede, The Netherlands designed by Arons en Gelauff Architecten

The building is nine stories high on the sport fields’ side. On the Boulevard side, the building fits the small-scale character of this pedestrian street with two building layers. The supermarket and the hairdresser are on this side. On the first floor, the dwellings are situated round a communal roof terrace.The façade facing the sport centre is fitted out as a climbing wall. -- ArchDaily

Source: Te-Ming Chang

One Western Avenue, Graduate Student Housing, Harvard University, Allston, Massachusetts, USA, 2003 designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates

The surface treatment of all of the volumes is designed to allow the ideal prismatic geometry of the various building masses to register on the façade planes. -- architect's web site

Source: Juan Carlos Doblado, Nómena Arquitectos archdaily.com

Cipreses Residential Complex, San Isidro, Lima, Perú designed by Juan Carlos Doblado + Nómena Arquitectos

The image of the building towards Javier Prado Av. has a greater presence of ordered and eaves openings that frame the bodies of each tower. Inland arises more informal language based on the horizontal displacement of the windows creating a rhythm accented by various shades of color. -- ArchDaily

Source: cbtarchitects.com

Sierra — NorthPoint Parcel S, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA designed by CBT

The spacious, two-story loft and flat units are organized around two central light wells that flood the interiors with plentiful amounts of natural daylight and bring the outside in. -- architect's web site

Source: cbtarchitects.com

Tango — NorthPoint Parcel T, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA designed by CBT

The facade of the building combines a palette of clear and colored spandrel glass, precast concrete, zinc cladding, and hardwood details that give the building a strong, contemporary presence. Large expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass provide ample light and views from the residential units. -- architect's web site

Source: Charlie Xia archdaily.com

PKU University Of Law, Beijing, China designed by Kokaistudios

.... transformed the facades to become light filters and diffusing soft daylight light all over the interiors. -- ArchDaily

Source: Georges Fessy archdaily.com

Court of Justice of the European Communities, Kirchberg platform, Grand Duché du Luxembourg, 2008 designed by Dominique Perrault

On the lower level of this major body, the “grande galerie” is reorganized and extended, serving as a spinal cord, to provide circulation between the different extensions as well as to the two new towers, which provide office space for more than 600 translators and legal officers working in 23 languages. With a height of 100 metres each, the new towers are now the tallest in Luxembourg. -- ArchDaily

Source: Paul Tierney archdaily.com

Roebuck Castle Student Residence, UCD Belfield Campus, Dublin, Ireland, 2010 designed by Kavanagh Tuite Architects

The unitised panels create an airtight façade (point fixed to the slab edges for minimum cold bridging), and together with wood-framed curtain wall façades to the three stair core volumes, provide large sealed elements that are then easily air-sealed to the basic concrete structure with EPDM membranes. This strategy largely ‘designed-out’ problems of air sealing the project. -- ArchDaily

Source: Klaus Frahm archdaily.com

Hamburg Brooktorkai, Hafen, Hamburg, Germany, 2010 designed by Antonio Citterio And Partners

The severe look of the tall residential volume, with its large sheets of sandstone in an irregular pattern, and the dark reddish clinker of the horizontal facade of the office building have the shared feature of the bronze-tone sections of the windows and glazings. -- ArchDaily

Source; Philippe van Gelooven archdaily.com

Sint-Gillis, Sint-Gillis, Belgium, 2010 designed by Lensass Architects

The streetscape shows a school building that takes up two building lots. This is reflected in the dual building design of the facade. The elongated windows accentuate the vertical rhythm of the street. The building integrates easily into the formal vocabulary of its surroundings. -- ArchDaily

Source: Manolo Toledo archdaily.com

El Ejido Courthouse, El Ejido, Almería, Spain, 2011 designed by Andrés López Fernández

The building is intended to convey the two conditions inherent in the administration of justice. On the one hand the strength and firmness shown by the strength of the buildings geometry and structural material. Then on the other hand, transparency, enshrined in the constitution of the porous boundary walls and partitions that allow friendly and complex nuanced relationship building in an urban environment. In fact, the construction of the main facade is reminiscent of poles placed on shelves. -- ArchDaily

Source; Ed Massery archdaily.com

Kaufmann Program Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 2011 designed by Renaissance 3 Architects

The addition encompasses an outdoor community courtyard and a glass-enclosed café where people can sit, eat, and watch performances in the courtyard. Meeting rooms on the second and third floors were established that provide excellent views of the courtyard. At night, colored, translucent resin panels lit by LED lights light up the public courtyard and façade. -- ArchDaily

Source: Géraldine Bruneel archdaily.com

Mitsulift HQ, Lebanon, 2012 designed by / Raed Abillama Architects

....the efficiency of the construction by minimizing direct sunlight and heat intake. To optimize this effect the ceiling height was raised, and high, deep recessed slit windows were created so that the openings are in the shade on the east and west. This proportion of high windows gives more natural, homogenized light into the deep end of the office. -- ArchDaily

Source: FG + SG archdaily.com

House in Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013 designed by ARX PORTUGAL Arquitectos

The elevation obviously follows on the Lisbon tradition, stressed further by the windows’ rhythmic structure, opened in a span system created by horizontal strips and  vertical bars – characteristic of the city architecture. Just as most of Lisbon’s old buildings, it is a flat elevation whose expressiveness comes from its rhythmic nature and the light-and-shade effects produced with the backing-up of its surfaces. This apparatus brings the elevation a sense of time, expressed by the change in the shadows throughout the day: from a more subtle morning light – with no direct sunlight – to the strong contrasting afternoon shadows. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cecile Septet archdaily.com

Rue des Poissonniers Housing, 18th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France, 2013 designed by MAAST

Corian was chosen for the building’s envelope because it reflects lights. The facade overlooking the street is inspired by the classic three-part Parisian facade. It is covered with very light corian and marked with rolling corian blinds, installed directly on the façade to create a perfectly smooth surface. -- ArchDaily

Source: Thilo Härdtlein archdaily.com

Atrium Amras, Innsbruck, Austria, 2013 designed by Zechner & Zechner

The facade is constructed from precast concrete components, each the height of an individual storey. These create a nonuniform grid composed of two differently sized window openings that alternate to form a varied pattern. The windows are a composite design with slim profiles and sun protection systems fitted in the middle for protection from the wind. The slight offset of the facade elements at each storey creates an interplay of light and dark, marks the edges of each level and makes it possible to read the floors. The contrast of light and dark is intensified by differences in the roughness of the surfaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Mathieu Ducros archdaily.com

Academy Of Art Crafts (ESMA), 50 Route de Narbonne, 31320 Auzeville-Tolosane, France, 2013 designed by LCR Architectes

The facade, randomly double laced in a vertical rhythm, gives a depth and lightness to the whole process while allowing the necessary sun protection to the various rooms. Facades create a graphic effect sustained by projected shadows and a colored highlighting. -- ArchDaily