• BIG alternates balcony types to form the jagged, illusory Kaktus Towers in Copenhagen

    BIG alternates balcony types to form the jagged, illusory Kaktus Towers in Copenhagen

    Torqued beside the rail lines at Dybbølsbro Station, the Kaktus Towers cut serrated profiles against the Copenhagen sky. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the seemingly—but not quite—twisted micro-living towers mark the edge of Vesterbro, a former industrial zone now undergoing a new wave of development. Rising from an elevated green plateau—about 65 feet above the street,…

  • Payette shades the Ragon Institute with tapered aluminum fins that mimic stone

    In Boston’s Kendall Square, where dense research programs and repetitive building types define much of the streetscape, the facade of the Ragon Institute manages to make a statement. After years spread across multiple campuses, the institute—dedicated to advancing immunology and vaccine research—now occupies a unified biomedical research center, bringing together scientists from Harvard, MIT, and Mass…

    Payette shades the Ragon Institute with tapered aluminum fins that mimic stone