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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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S9 Architecture spotlights the raw materiality of industry in a mixed-use development in Nashville, centered around a former slaughterhouse
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These topics, ideas, and materials define building envelope design in 2025
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Ebpc delivers a monolithic apartment building clad in travertine with balconies and cross-ventilated living units
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BNIM Architects used biology as inspiration for the new home of LifeServe Blood Center, with large spans of glazing to protect the building and its inhabitants
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Lake Flato brings mass timber to Penn with Amy Gutmann Hall, a new academic hub for data science and AI
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KWK Promes designs a Polish pipe distribution facility to look like a stack of aluminum tubes
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Kengo Kuma & Associates wraps a Paris housing complex with ridged chestnut panels
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Snøhetta drapes Far Rockaway Library in yellow-tinted glass
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INC Architecture & Design uses fluted terra-cotta panels for The Treadwell, an art deco–inspired residential tower
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Weiss/Manfredi wraps University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus with faceted precast concrete panels
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Morphosis completes concrete-clad building for Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas
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Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen deliver performing arts center in China with faceted aluminum facades
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Herzog & de Meuron designs a research facility in Basel using a closed-cavity facade system
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Allmannwappner designs a folded aluminum facade for a new tower in Berlin’s Europacity
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Woods Bagot completes Blue & William, a glass office building framed by terra-cotta extrusions
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Lateral Office delivers a corrugated-metal community center in Nunavut
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Flad Architects references geological formations for new life science research building in San Diego
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HDR wraps a new research facility in Minnesota for Mayo Clinic in aluminum scrim
