From the 1990s until quite recently, architects on this continent often envied the textured and articulated building envelopes their international counterparts were creating, while their own shade ...

A sun shade or ‘brise-soleil’ (derived from the French word ‘sun breaker’), is an architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain by deflecting sunlight. A history of providing shading from ...

A student has proposed a novel take on the traditional window blind that can twist and shift in three dimensions. Penumbra is a concept from architecture student Tyler Short using louvers that can ...