Facades+ is back in the Big Apple on April 3 and 4 for our largest event of the year. To assemble the program, AN worked with Christoph Timm, Gabrielle Brainard, and Kwong Yu of SOMs New York City office. The events first day features a symposium of exciting project case studies and panel sessions as well as an exhibition hall with over 50 building product manufacturers. Attendees should also sign up for the second day, which features intimate workshop sessions led by practitioners from prominent design firms. Click here to find more information and register.A New Approach to Sustainability: Circular Design and ConstructionThe day begins with a civic perspective session led by Zack Aders, senior vice president at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC). Aders will address the public authoritys sustainability commitments, particularly its participation in the citys Circular Construction Program, guidelines which have been implemented in EDC developments across the five boroughs. The program encourages the use of recycled materials and low carbon specifications like mass timber with the goal of 50 percent reduction in embodied carbon emissions by the year 2033.A New Face for the Buffalo AKG Art Museum: Facade, Form, & FunctionThe next panel transports us to Buffalo, where presenters from OMA, Thornton Tomasetti, and Roschmann Group will share the design and execution of the Buffalo AKGs new Jeffrey E. Gundlach building. Focusing on the buildings glass envelope, the team will discuss how interior temperature, humidity, and lighting were controlled to protect the museums collections as well as the implementation of a steel diagrid system on the exterior, which allows the building to remain column free. Other topics include the use of faceted glass, a custom frit, and takeaways related to the buildings unique structural system. Colin Koop will discuss MITs new Schwarzman College of Computing, a building that innovates beyond traditional applications of the glass curtain wall. (Dave Burk)Buttoned Up: Detailing, Materiality, and PerformanceIn the following session, Colin Koop, design principal at SOM, will deliver a solo presentation about the firms buttoned up approach to design and detailing. Covering several of the New York City studios recently completed projectsincluding the Disney New York headquarters, the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT, and a conceptual design for a mass timber stadium in QueensKoop will connect this work to SOMs past, arguing that attention to detail and craft unites the firms nearly century long trajectory.JKMM Architects included residential units in their design for Tammelan Stadium in Finland. (Tuomas Uusheimo)The Human Form of Architecture: Recipes for Wellbeing and HappinessIn the afternoon, Samuli Miettinen, founding partner of JKMM Architects, will deliver the events keynote address, showcasing the firms commitment to humanistic design principles. Miettinen will specifically highlight the offices cultural output, including an in progress expansion of the National Museum of Finland, a mixed-use soccer stadium, as well as an addition and renovation of the Helsingborg City Library in Sweden. Circularity and the Facade Supply ChainThe symposium will wrap up with a roundtable session on efforts to improve circularity within the facade supply chain. This panel features AEC industry experts including Andrea Zani, innovation manager and sustainability lead at Permasteelisa; Sophie Pennetier, founder at Digne; Stephen Azierski, architectural salesperson at Skyline Windows; and Patrick Elmore, president of business development at Infinite Recycled Technologies. Attendees will hear about recent advancements in design for deconstruction as well as detailing tricks that divert construction materials from the landfill. The panelists will also share challenges that stand in the way of widespread implementation, focusing on solutions for the future.After the main program concludes attendees should stick around for a cocktail party and the announcement and celebration of our inaugural Faces of Our City award program, highlighting achievements in facade design in New York City.The event continues for a second day on April 4, where a full day of workshop sessions will be held at the New York Law School in Tribeca. The workshops will be taught by a number of leading firms including gmp Architekten, transsolar, Studio NYL, Pelli Clarke & Partners, Meier Partners, RAMSA, PEI Architects, Perkins&Will, RDH Building Science, Arup, and others.