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ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom HeritageProjectsUKSustainabilityCarbon

Reimagining Tate Liverpool: opening up a heritage warehouse without trapping moisture

John Ross & Chiara Faliva

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom ProjectsUKPlacemakingRegeneration

Shaping everyday wonder: regrowing Manchester

Lucy Head & Daniel Onions

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom UKSustainabilityCarbonResilience

The power of ten: AHR's ten steps to a more resilient façade

Robert Hopkins

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom ProjectsTerracottaUKAcoustics

Heritage at height: engineering a terracotta tower on Whitworth Street

Paul Crowther & Elena Giraldi

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom ProjectsUKCostPanel

Greater Manchester rising: identity, cost, and who really decides the façade

Giovanni Gori, Adam Thornton, Daniel Mossman-Clark, Aaron Dehara & Damien Bourke

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Façade engineeringFire safetyComplianceUKUnitised curtain wall

Engineering fire safety into a complex façade: the NESST case study

Camille Destres & Iain Gray

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Façade engineeringCurtain wallUKMovement

A façade that moves: engineering for deflection

Andrew Bird

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom High-riseResidentialProjectsArchitectureUK

Form, colour, texture: three residential towers on two Manchester sites

James Hind

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom UKSustainabilityCarbonDigital

Double or triple glazed? Ramboll's data-driven answer

Amaldev Premkumar

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Building physicsUKSustainabilityAirtightness

Move the airtight line outside: condensation and air-tightness

Nick Backhouse

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom MaterialsUKCladdingDesign

Beyond performance: the psychology of a façade

Ian Wilson

ZWOF Manchester 2026 United Kingdom Fire safetyBuilding safetyComplianceUK

Getting through the gateways: what the Building Safety Regulator actually wants

Sean Robinson & Craig Renton

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom UKCeramicsDigital fabricationXi’anCraft

Embedding emotion at Xi’an CCBD

Alexis Harrison, Maela Allegretti & Nick Ling

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ArchitectureAdaptive reuseUKDurabilityLongevity

Designing façades that can survive changing ideas

Simon Allford

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom UKEngineeringLow-carbonSystems thinkingKPF

When component innovation plateaus, systems thinking takes over

Shawn Duffy

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ComplianceUKBuilding Safety ActCollaborationCompetence

Building safety changes the definition of competence

Russell Cole & Neville Grunwald

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom UKCollaborationWeatherproofingInterfacesQuality

Façade literacy is a risk-control tool

Rui Monteiro

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom UKDigital fabricationQuality assuranceFaçade coordinationSliding doors

Complex façades depend on one coordinated model

Roger Schaerer & Thang Vo

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom RetrofitAdaptive reuseUKPlanningViability

Retrofit needs planning, engineering and viability in the same room

Ana Araújo, Ivan Kaye, John Meredith & Laurence Brooker

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Fire safetyComplianceUKFRAEWExternal walls

External wall appraisal is becoming a permanent building record

Paul Phillips

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonGlassUKEPDsBIPV

Glass data is becoming part of the design material

Moujehed Neffoussi

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Building physicsQuality controlUKAirtightnessMembranes

Airtightness is a small layer with a large consequence

Matthew Owen

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonUKSustainabilityCostCurtain walling

Low-carbon curtain walling begins by using less

Alistair Law, Laura Solarino, Paul Hargreaves, Steve Mudie & Tim Debets

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ReuseUKCircularityStone reuseUrban quarry

The city can become its own stone quarry

Lefteris Siamopoulos

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom GlassCurved glassComplex geometryUKManufacturing

Curved glass moves beyond the mould

Joan Tarrús

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom UKDurabilityColourPowder coatingBio-based materials

Powder coatings are starting to carry their own carbon strategy

Jimi Ogunsola

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonWorkplaceAdaptive reuseUKFuture fit

Future-fit buildings begin with transformation, not replacement

Harry Cliffe-Roberts

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Closed-cavity façadeWorkplaceUKUser experienceDaylighting

User experience can drive a lower-carbon façade

Frank Filskow & Jonathan Walker

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ReuseAdaptive reuseUKTransformationPublic architecture

Turning a central bank back into a public building

Francine Houben

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom MaintenanceUKTestingKinetic façadeAdaptive systems

Kinetic façades become a building system

Florian Ebner

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Fire safetyUKSteel façadesCurtain wallingHybrid systems

Hybrid steel curtain walls answer demands aluminium cannot always solve alone

Eric Claeys

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ReuseRetrofitAdaptive reuseUKCarbon

Value-up starts with what a building already has

Dan Gleeson & Stephen Tanno

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ResidentialPublic realmUKBankside YardsMasterplanning

Bankside Yards makes a tall home part of a mixed city

Dan Clarke & Daniel Moore

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Quality controlUKDurabilityPowder coatingSpecifications

A coating specification is a durability system

Coby Armar

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Tall buildingsHeritageProjectsUK

Growth and conservation: designing the City of London's 2040 skyline

Tom Nancollas

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Unitised façadesHigh-riseUKStudent housingOff-site manufacture

Chapter Living turns origami into a buildable unitised façade

Alex Miller, Daniele Norbiato, Phil Sedge & Umut Bülbül

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ComplianceUKBuilding Safety ActGateway 2Golden thread

Building Safety Act lessons are becoming new design practice

Aaron Dehara, Alasdair Mealey, Anna Dziekonska-Ramage, Anri Doda, Lesley Lawson, Peter Goff & Stephen Tanno

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Laminated glassStructural glassTraceabilityUKInterlayers

Structural interlayers are also a carbon and traceability decision

Allan Gibson

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom HeritageHotelFaçade retentionAdaptive reuseUK

A former embassy becomes a hotel without erasing its history

Iain Bleakley, Ioannis Gkikas, Jason Sandy, Matt Jarvis & Ryan Butterfield