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A rainscreen facade doesn’t try to keep every drop of water out at the outer surface. It’s designed to let some in, then manage it, which sounds counterintuitive until you understand why that approach actually outperforms a fully sealed system over the building’s life. An architect on a hospital project…

A flat canopy doesn’t just sit there in the wind. It behaves a bit like an aircraft wing, and the force trying to lift it off is usually the one nobody budgeted for. Entrance canopies, especially the cantilevered glass ones with no visible support columns that most architects want for…

A balcony railing and a terrace railing solve the same basic problem, but they rarely need the same solution, and treating them as interchangeable is where a lot of tower projects end up over-speccing one and under-speccing the other. Balconies and terraces get grouped together in a lot of early…