Hospitals don’t behave like typical buildings, and their façades shouldn’t be engineered like them either. In commercial towers, performance issues are frustrating. In healthcare facilities, they become operational risks. When a healthcare envelope fails, it doesn’t...
Structural glass is one of those architectural elements that looks effortless from the outside — clear, elegant, weightless. But the moment it stops being an idea and becomes a real system, it stops behaving like a visual feature and starts behaving like structure....
In drawings, cladding systems look simple — a clean panel grid, crisp joints, sharp edges, tight alignment. But once the system leaves the page and meets tolerances, structure, movement, and weather, reality takes over. Cladding isn’t decoration. It’s part of the...
In architecture, the words façade design and façade engineering are often used interchangeably — but they shouldn’t be. A façade can look right on paper and fail in the field. It can photograph beautifully while struggling under wind load, racking under drift, or...
