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SOM alters the Gothenburg skyline with Karlatornet—Scandinavia’s tallest tower and pixelated icon
Shining high above lowrise Gothenburg, Sweden, Karlatornet is now the tallest structure in Scandinavia. Like many solitary towers rising in cities once unconcerned with such heights, the 807-foot luxury highrise stands alone among clouds.
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Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls
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Gianni Botsford Architects designs a glass tower in China with a staggered profile and aluminum mullions
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Populous faces Calgary’s BMO Centre with copper-colored metal panels
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Beyer Blinder Belle uses brick and glass curtain wall for National Urban League Headquarters in Harlem
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Dr. Antony Wood to leave Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat after two decades of service
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David Baker Architects clads Blue Oak Landing, an affordable housing complex, in weathered steel
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AN.ONYMOUS installs irregularly-patterned brick on facade of a medical clinic
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Facades+ comes to Fort Lauderdale on August 24
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NAPUR Architect applies ethnographic motifs to Hungary’s Museum of Ethnography
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Pelli Clarke & Partners emulates mountain topography for facade of Chengdu Natural History Museum
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Park Associati implements a terra-cotta–colored facade for a Milan office building
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ATELIER ARS uses local brick and ceramic work on a cultural center
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SOM’s Winship Cancer Institute establishes a holistic approach to patient care
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Carr uses a concrete grid to frame 835 High Street in a Melbourne suburb
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York University’s School of Continuing Studies stuns with a triangulated facade
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A locally-inspired material palette wraps facade of an English temple
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A facade influenced by modernism adds dimensionality to ETH Zurich’s campus
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MJMA screens a glulam-structured community center with aluminum mesh
