To ring in the New Year, AN dived into a year’s worth of facade products to select the best of 2018. Ranging from operable vent windows to manually-embossed cement rainscreen panels, these products ...

Working on a limited budget but not wanting to design a typical industrial building, prefabricated concrete panels from Alciati Srl were chosen for cost efficiency and durability. Drawing from its ...

Wall facade systems are vital in improving the energy efficiency of a building, integrating creative design and performance ...

The attributes of a solid surface facade system include aesthetic appearance, ease of maintenance and colour fastness. Being compatible with virtually any insulation system, substrate and load-bearing ...

Canada's Elemex started offering new cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar panels this week for applications in PV facades. The architectural facade specialist said the modules feature its proprietary unity ...

Blending in with its urban context or standing out to draw attention, a façade tells a building’s story. It is an expressive medium through which we engage with architecture, defining first ...

Arup and GXN Innovation have been awarded with the JEC Innovation Award 2015 in the construction category for their development of the world's first self-supporting biocomposite facade panel.

Will we soon be able to turn our homes and business premises into one big solar panel? This is getting closer thanks to a special collaboration between TNO, Inbo Architects, Van der Leegte Werkt, ...