ZWOF New York 2025

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSARetrofitInsulating glassEnergy codes

Less is more insulating: the case for vacuum insulated glass

Justin D’Alessandro

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAUltracompact stoneRainscreenSintered stoneVentilated façade

Pressed and fired: the case for ultracompact stone on the façade

Dean White

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAAdaptive reuseHistoric preservationMasonry restorationArt deco

A century, matched: restoring the Waldorf Astoria's envelope

Frank Mahan, Jonathan Taylor, Kevin Kim & Victoria Ponce de Leon

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSAMass timberCircularityCultural buildings

Timber, weathering steel and a spirit of place: the Springsteen archive

Zach Craun

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Curtain wallUSAWindowsEnergy codesThermal performance

Slowing the heat: how a window's thermal performance is measured and won

Gary Tongco

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Façade engineeringDesign assistUSAConstructabilityGFRC

Skin-deep efficiency: rationalising three façades for the fabricator

Manan Raval & Jun Schick Lee

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAStructural glassAdaptive reuseGlass fabricationNatural ventilation

Poetic intent, physical reality: a life in structural glass

Hugh Dutton

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Curtain wallUSAPhotovoltaic façadesEnergy generationNFPA 285

262 Fifth Avenue: wrapping a tower core in photovoltaic glass

Diego Cuevas, Carmelo Guido Galante, Leo Henke & Yan Torres

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Curtain wallUSAFire-rated glazingLife safetyBallistic glazing

Rated, but you'd never know: steel fire and security systems evolved

Ben Haigh

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Curved glassUSAGlass fabricationFaçade geometryTempered glass

From flat to fantastic: free-form tempered glass without a mould

Derek Losi

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USADaylightingGlare controlFritLouvers

Layers of light: how façades shape daylight for people

Lee Brandt, Christopher Steffens, Jennifer Sage & Miguel Angel Maldonado

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USALaminated glassInterlayersGlazingResilience

Holding back the water, transparently: laminated glass for flood control

Alberto Alarcon

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAAdaptive reuseTerracottaHistoric preservationBrick

Lace and turrets: two contemporary façades in historic New York

David Kubik & Todd Poisson

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Thermal bridgingUSAStainless steelBrickMasonry support

Holding up the brick: a stainless approach to masonry support

Sean Og Coyle

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSATerracottaMaterial innovationCircularity

Load-bearing again: reinventing terra cotta for the low-carbon façade

Andrew Pries

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonCurtain wallUSASteel façadesFaçade systems

Steel over aluminium: the case for a hybrid curtain wall

Eric Claeys

ZWOF New York 2025 United States High-riseCurtain wallUSAFaçade expressionNatural ventilation

Making the curtain wall breathe: hiding, and showing, the window

Hugh Trumbull

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USADesign technologyDaylightingGame enginesPerformance simulation

From renderings to real time: running façade decisions through a game engine

John Ivanoff

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Façade engineeringUSAHistoric preservationLimestone rainscreenMuseums

Made to look load-bearing: the Frick's limestone expansion

Paul Granger & Tali Mejicovsky

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Curtain wallFabricationUSAVirtual realityWindows

89 Avenue Yorkville: deciding the façade before it is built

Tobiasz Staszak

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAConstruction outlookLocal Law 11InfrastructureWorkforce

A $219 billion cycle: where New York’s façade work comes from

Carlo A. Scissura

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Curtain wallUSAQuality controlCladdingTesting

A ceramic look in cast concrete: the GFRC façade at 600 West 125th

Joseph Madaghiele & Melissa Wong

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Embodied carbonUSAPhotovoltaic façadesEnergy generationPolicy

Beyond the envelope: façades that generate power, and policy

Luis Palacio

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Curtain wallCurved glassUSACeramic fritAnti-reflective glass

From wind tunnel to window: automotive parallels in a façade

Jamison Guest & Nathan McRae

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Artificial intelligenceComputational designDigital twinsEnergy modellingAutomation

From concept to operation: AI's place in the built environment

Alfonso Oliva, Dan Reynolds, Veronica Quintero, Andres Roncal & Emir Pekdemir

ZWOF New York 2025 United States Office buildingsCurtain wallEnergy performanceDesign assistWorkplace

Buildings for people: rethinking the office tower at 70 Hudson Yards

Hagen Scutt, Rok Lee, Michael Lin, Breen Mahony & Andrew Black