Trevor Schillaci

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Trevor Schillaci

In a dense city like Philadelphia, residential architecture maintains a precarious relationship with privacy, which is often difficult to achieve. On a site in Center City, local office Moto Designshop faced this challenge head on, designing a new row house across the street from a busy and unsightly gas station.

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Trevor Schillaci

Expectations are always immense when adding to a famous work of architecture. This was certainly the case at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), where Metro Arquitetos Associados was tasked with complementing the institution’s original building, designed by Lina Bo Bardi.

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Trevor Schillaci

At Fanshawe College—one of Ontario’s largest public institutions of higher education—Diamond Schmitt has sutured a new building, known as the Innovation Village, into the center of the campus. Surrounded by the school’s existing brick buildings, the new structure is distinguished by its size and bold blue color. Diamond Schmitt’s intervention also boasts a number of high-performance features, including the use of building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) panels and an exposed mass timber portico.

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Trevor Schillaci

On March 12, the Facades+ conference series will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Westin Downtown. Celebrating its 13th year, the event returns with an exciting day of programming that was put together in collaboration with Vaki Mawema and JJ Rivers, both principals at Gensler. Attendees should also check out our Methods + Materials gallery, which features 24 exhibiting building product companies. Click here to find more information and register.

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Trevor Schillaci

In Universal City—the neighborhood-sized home of Universal Pictures’s corporate campus, production lots, and theme park—LEVER Architecture has designed two new buildings: The Commons and One Universal. The former, an employee amenity space, evokes early moving picture technology through its circular structure and lenticular shade screen of thin aluminum tubes.