Advertising agency JWT’s New York office serves as its global headquarters. The open design embodies the company’s approach to its work, and it needed a lighting system that is flexible enough to meet the needs of the office such as precise dimming and shade control integration. JWT, a world-wide advertising agency, has opened a New York office to serves as its global headquarters. The 250,000-sq.-ft. office extends five floors and accommodates more than 900 employees. With an open, creative and functional design aesthetic, the space embodies the company’s approach to its work and mission. Lighting controls needed to meet energy code and architectural dimming requirements.

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Surfaces/Finishes

Rare Wood Alternatives

Architects and designers specify wood to bring warmth and beauty to their work, and many believe that since trees can be replanted, they’re a renewable resource. While trees are renewable, forests are not; still today, wood species from threatened and endangered forests continue to be used in design projects around the world. Wilsonart, a world leading provider of engineered surfaces, captures the unique beauty of global wood species and brings awareness to this alarming issue with 16 new laminate designs in the “Nature Undisturbed” Collection.

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Green Roofs

No Chicago H2O Blues

Very near Lake Michigan in Chicago, Northwestern Medical Center faced several challenges in bringing a new campus building to life. Designed by Perkins+Will, the project involves a phased construction where a 14-story base building is presently under construction; a 20-story tower addition is planned for construction in five to 10 years. Since the project is built-out to all property lines there are no at-grade landscape areas, which presented a particular challenge given the city’s Dept. of Stormwater Management permit requirement that the project account the total building mass and footprint. Translation: 10,000 cubic ft. of stormwater detention was required. Further, city code requi

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Lighting & Controls

High Suspense

Suspended by a nearly imperceptible steel cable, the hand-blown glass pendant fixture is a new addition to the Hydra pendant family from Italian manufacturer Melongranoblu. The collection features pendants in a variety of shapes and lengths.

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Metal Fabrications

Historic London Office Space Revitalized

Former Victorian depository draws inspiration from elegant woven metal fabric to enhance the new office space. The Studio at 10A Greenwood Place in London completes its stylishly industrial revitalization with a unique lift enclosure. Two mesh patterns, layered closely together, enhance the new office space created in a former Victorian depository. As the office is designed as an open plan, the lift is a focal point, offering transportation between floors and is designed to evoke the building’s Victorian era. It’s complemented by brick walls, concrete soffits and exposed cast iron supports.With a beautiful street frontage, The Studio provides ample light via expansive, modern win

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Glass & Curtainwall

Mixed-Use Mastered in Downtown Montreal

50-story residential tower features more than 434,000 square feet of high-performance, Low-E coated glass L’Avenue is a mixed-use, high-rise building located in the heart of downtown Montreal. The 50-story residential tower houses 304 apartment units, commercial office space currently occupied by ‘WeWork’, retail space, a café at grade, and a ‘Provigo’ grocery store.Designed by Toronto-based firm, IBI Group, L’Avenue is the pinnacle of luxury living. Residential amenities are located on the 9th floor, which is also the first tower floor, and they were designed to offer a resort-like experience for inhabitants. The building is located advantageously, r

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September 30, 2019 by AP Staff

What It Takes to Make a Roof Resilient

“Resilience” is a word we hear a lot about today in the world of commercial building design and construction. In general, it’s defined as the ability to stand up to a range of possibly severe weather conditions, and, when failure occurs, an ability to bounce back quickly. For a building to perform resiliently, as a whole, each of its systems also must embody these characteristics. Certainly, roofing is critical in this regard—after all, a roofing failure can make an entire building uninhabitable. So, what, then, are the design factors behind a commercial roof’s resilience—and how does this relate to today’s other primary design goal, sustainability? “Sustainability is about thinking for the future, resilience is about resisting the current onslaught,” says James Kirby, AIA, building and roofing science architect with roofing manufacturer GAF. “So, resilience is the ability to stay in place, or being able to be repaired and replaced quickly.” For Kirby and other roofing experts, ensuring that ability to stay in place is dependent on the details— and detailing—of how that roof is designed. Kirby says this list begins with wind resistance, and the choice to design to a region’s wind code or go beyond those requirements. Below you’ll find a few solutions we uncovered that specifically address the challenge of wind resistance.

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Lighting & Controls

Luminous Variety

The Cypher wall sconce offers a wide variety of illumination patterns and finish/color options, and allows users to select any amount of light and a variety of illumination patterns. Controls include dawn-to-dusk photocell, advanced wired or wireless. The “Ghost” fascia feature allows finish materials to be applied directly over the fixture onsite.Judge’s Comments: “The plethora of options make it a Swiss Army knife.”

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Exterior Panels/Cladding

Steinhardt Museum of Natural History

Housed inside a symbolic wooden treasure chest, that doubles as the cladding for the museum’s collection, Tel Aviv University’s Steinhardt Museum of Natural History—with more than 5 million specimens collected over the past century—is the largest, most active center for biodiversity research in the Middle East. Making a splash with its Noah’s Ark-looking façade, Kimmel Eshkolot Architects’ concept was two-fold: beckon museum patrons and passersby to come inside and explore, while also providing a climate-controlled space for the archeological specimens.“The collections are the heart of the building and we wanted it to be exposed to the city and

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Glass Walls/Partitions

Innovative Glass Adds Elegance and Eliminates Corrosion

Audubon Country Club in Louisville, KY upgrades with innovative corrosion-resistant glass in locker rooms and showers. The Audubon Club in Louisville, KY, is a high-profile country club dating back to 1908. Over time, elements of the facilities have been upgraded or changed for maintenance purposes or to modernize. Such was the case with the locker rooms and showers. The management decided that, in particular, the shower doors needed to be replaced after years of use and exposure to contaminants like hard water, heat, and high humidity. Due to these and other factors, the glass doors had an aged, dull, and dirty appearance, despite conscientious cleaning and careful upkeep. &ldquo

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What It Takes to Make a Roof Resilient

Luminous Variety

Steinhardt Museum of Natural History

Innovative Glass Adds Elegance and Eliminates Corrosion