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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…

Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen deliver performing arts center in China with faceted aluminum facades
Herzog & de Meuron designs a research facility in Basel using a closed-cavity facade system
Allmannwappner designs a folded aluminum facade for a new tower in Berlin’s Europacity
Woods Bagot completes Blue & William, a glass office building framed by terra-cotta extrusions
Lateral Office delivers a corrugated-metal community center in Nunavut
Flad Architects references geological formations for new life science research building in San Diego

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…