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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

S9 Architecture spotlights the raw materiality of industry in a mixed-use development in Nashville, centered around a former slaughterhouse
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Ebpc delivers a monolithic apartment building clad in travertine with balconies and cross-ventilated living units
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
Lake Flato brings mass timber to Penn with Amy Gutmann Hall, a new academic hub for data science and AI
KWK Promes designs a Polish pipe distribution facility to look like a stack of aluminum tubes

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…