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OMA’s JOMOO Headquarters flexes white ceramic stripes angled in different directions

In 2004, the Seattle Central Library turned heads with its continuous skin that wrapped programmatic elements into an iconic, irregular whole. Two decades since and halfway around the world, OMA has employed a similar premise for the JOMOO Headquarters tower in Xiamen, a coastal city undergoing high-density urbanization in southeastern China. Yet where the acclaimed library in Seattle is transparent

Payette shades the Ragon Institute with tapered aluminum fins that mimic stone
Clancy Moore beautifies an Irish wastewater treatment facility with a screen of sea-green louvers
West of West drapes Vancouver, Washington’s Terminal One in folded metal panels that catch light and shadow
KPF’s T. Rowe Price Headquarters embraces Baltimore’s industrial vernacular with double-height windows and dark gray aluminum mullions
Facades+ will be in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 22
S9 Architecture spotlights the raw materiality of industry in a mixed-use development in Nashville, centered around a former slaughterhouse

Clancy Moore beautifies an Irish wastewater treatment facility with a screen of sea-green louvers

Today, we might think of sewage containment as a problem of the 19th century, when urban areas developed robust infrastructure to properly collect and dispose of human waste. However, in Arklow, a coastal town on Ireland’s eastern seaboard, this problem was never fully addressed. For close to a century, the municipality pumped raw sewage directly into the River…