Charlotte of the Upper West Side pushes the boundaries of environmental performance in New York City. One of a limited number of ground-up construction projects approved in the Upper West Side Central ...

A few years ago local artist and teacher Ben Tyjeski published a comprehensive look at Milwaukee's architectural terra cotta. For his latest monograph, he takes a deeper dive into the beautiful East ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. For years, we've touted the benefits of working from ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Architects have turned to terra cotta for millennia. The clay-based ceramic is durable, lasting hundreds of years; it breathes, providing a natural system to transfer heat and water; ...

At the main entrance, the eastern facade of twisting terra-cotta panels nods to Arizona’s vernacular red brick and traditional Southwestern building materials such as adobe. It begins at the second ...

The translation for the Italian terra cotta is “baked earth.” For over 4,000 years, terra cotta remained popular for both utility and decoration in architecture. Its natural qualities of fire and ...

Terra-cotta was a popular exterior cladding material in the United States between 1880 and 1930. Terra-cotta clay was formed in plaster molds at 10 percent to 12 percent larger than the required ...

It was big news at last year's Intersolar 2021 when Meyer Burger unveiled its new solar tiles, which were designed by paXos. At Intersolar 2022, paXos is showcasing a range of new innovative ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Even before ground was broken three years ago for the new downtown home of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, it was clear that the ...

Like frosting on a cake, terra cotta decorates dozens of Buffalo's most celebrated downtown buildings. Lavish ornamentations can be seen in the grand, rust-colored Guaranty Building, the ornate ...