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Thornton TomasettiLatest Stories

Sponge City Spaceships

Archi-Tectonics, !Melk, and Thornton Tomasetti deliver an intricate campus of stadiums, retail, and landscapes in Hangzhou, China

1940–2024

Charles Thornton, founding principal of Thornton Tomasetti, dies at 83

an inverted cantilevering tower
Step Out

The Westly juts over its Upper West Side neighbors with a gravity-defying triple cantilever

exterior of a sports and concert arena, UBS Arena
Island Life

Populous-designed UBS Arena debuts on Long Island with hockey and Harry Styles

aerial view of climate pledge arena at seattle center
When the Name Fits

Climate Pledge Arena debuts in Seattle as the world’s first net-zero-carbon arena

Image of Shed exterior and 15 Hudson Yards
Wrapped in plastic

A closer look at the ETFE skin of DS+R and Rockwell Group’s Bloomberg Building

Fabricated Futures

Facade engineers discuss the trend of custom repetitive manufacturing

Rendering of the Knight Campus, showing a tessellating glass curtain wall and a footbridge
Second Skin

Ennead and Bora Architects’s Knight Campus takes shape with a double-glass facade

Headshot of Edward Peck
Windy City Enclosure

Edward Peck discusses enclosure technology and Facades+ Chicago

Corner detail of the Mercantile Exchange lobby
Let in the light

Krueck + Sexton and Thornton Tomasetti bring undulating glass to Chicago’s Mercantile Exchange

Photo of Transbay Transit Center under construciton
Steel Waiting For a Solution

Repair plan for shuttered Transbay Transit Center is in the works

Photo of Transbay Transit Center
Hole-ier Than Thou

Possible source of failure discovered for San Francisco’s Transbay Center

Photo of the renovated Seattle Space Needle
Seeing Through the Rain

Facades+ Seattle will trace the rise of Pacific Northwest design

What's Cracking?

Salesforce Transit Center closed as cracked steel beam is discovered

Image: Shanghai Disney Resort Tomorrowland. (Courtesy Grimshaw Architects)
Popular Polymer

A skin for the spectacular? It has to be ETFE.

Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene

Why is ETFE the material of choice for U.S. stadia?

LEED Platinum

Stacking glass bars in Chicagoland

Facades+ Miami

ETFE and facade engineering in Miami

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