There are plenty of passionate opinions when it comes to new building designs and aesthetics, be it the Marigold in North Mankato, the glass towers in downtown Mankato, or the Eide Bailly and Bridge ...

Bright purple, deep red, with bursts of blue and gold, the tenement building on the corner of Avenue B and East 4th Street is hard to miss. For the building’s owner, Antonio “Tony” Echeverri, making ...

Think of the wind whipping around office buildings at street level. Because wind circling a building creates a pressure differential (between the outside air and the inside air) and because that ...

Color is a major consideration for those designing the built environment. A skyscraper, school complex, office building or residential structure is destined to be perceived by the public eye. Because ...

The Empire State Building was bathed in a rainbow of colors earlier this month. The tower lights were tie-dye hued on Aug. 1 in honor of the late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia’s birthday. The ...

A new material developed by researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker's School of Molecular Engineering can change its colors depending on the temperature, to help buildings change color.