-
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.
-

Boston Valley Terra Cotta hosts the ninth annual Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop in Buffalo
-

BIG adds a pair of twisting travertine towers along New York City’s High Line
-

Montgomery Sisam Architects and Moriyama Teshima Architects wrap Sheridan College Student Life Centre with aluminum shades
-

Perkins Eastman, PBDW Architects, and Mancini Duffy complete TSX Broadway, a tower wrapped by colorful LED screens
-

Handel Architects faces Harmony Commons, Canada’s largest passive house building, in metal rainscreen panels
-

Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls
-

Facades+ returns to Denver on September 27
-

Trace Architecture Office erects colorful concrete volumes for school
-

Studio V’s The Green House uses terra-cotta cladding
-

The Architect’s Newspaper will launch Facades+ Canada newsletter in November
-

John Ronan Architects use reclaimed brick for Chicago Park District Headquarters
-

Facades+ will come to five cities this fall
-

OLI creates a floating campus in Suzhou with facades realized in glass and GFRC
-

Miller Hull devises glazed Brise-soleil for U.S. embassy in Guatemala
-

Facades+ will come to Minneapolis on September 12
-

Weiss/Manfredi uses frits and fins to clad a tower for MIT
-

MVRDV reproduces rock forms for the facade of The Canyon
-

AN.ONYMOUS installs irregularly-patterned brick on facade of a medical clinic
