Dezeen Debate features BIG's "beautiful" concrete skyscraper in Ecuador
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Debate newsletter features BIG's completed Iqon skyscraper in Quito, Ecuador. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More
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Safdie Architects completes Quito skyscraper with undulating "hillside" facades
Boston-based architecture studio Safdie Architects has completed the 24-storey Qorner residential skyscraper in Ecuador that has a snaking profile with staggered apartments and terraces. More
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BIG completes Quito's tallest building with pixelated facade
A facade of cascading balconies defines the residential Iqon skyscraper near La Carolina park in Quito, which is Danish architecture studio BIG's first completed project in South America. More
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Doméstico uses "habitable artifact" to organize micro apartment in Quito
Ecuadorian architects Juan Alberto Andrade and María José Váscones have made the most of the limited space in a micro apartment located within a new residential tower by Safdie Architects. More
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Slope House by El Sindicato Arquitectura steps down a Quito hillside
This home on the side of a hill in Ecuador was designed by El Sindicato Arquitectura to provide maximum privacy to its owners and their two daughters. More
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Bernardo Bustamante Arquitectos combines eucalyptus and concrete in Quito home
Board-formed concrete imprinted with eucalyptus planks forms the exterior of this home in Quito, Ecuador, by local firm Bernardo Bustamante Arquitectos. More
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Carlos Zapata completes curved-glass Unique tower in Quito
New York City-based architect Carlos Zapata and Quito-based developer Uribe Schwarzkopf have completed a 24-storey glass residential building, which appears to be split in two, in the Ecuadorian capital. More
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Quito apartment A Forest House has a mini indoor pool
Concrete columns draped in greenery, steel beams filled with books and a small pool feature in this apartment in Quito, Ecuador that local architect Aquiles Jarrín has overhauled for a family of three and their dog. More
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Felipe Escudero designs himself a Quito residence with space to make rap music
Ecuadorian architect Felipe Escudero has designed a house for himself in Quito that includes a black kitchen and a space to make rap music. More
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El Sindicato builds tiny Casa Parásito on a rooftop in Ecuador
Ecuadorian studio El Sindicato Arquitectura has built a 12-square-metre parasitic structure atop a building in Quito. More
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BIG designs EPIQ tower for Quito covered in earthy coloured tiles
Architecture firm BIG has unveiled its second project for developer Uribe Schwarzkopf in Ecuador's capital city: a mixed-use tower comprising two curved blocks covered in herringbone-patterned cladding. More
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BIG releases plans for IQON skyscraper in Ecuador
Architecture firm BIG has released renderings of its first project in South America: a curved tower covered with planted balconies that would become the tallest building in Quito. More
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Safdie Architects' Qorner tower for Quito to feature "hillside of terraces"
Volumes stagger in and out to create planted balconies and overhangs at the edges of this residential tower that Moshe Safdie's architecture firm has revealed for Quito, Ecuador. More
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Casa Roca's curved concrete walls are designed to give an architectural "hug"
Curved board-marked concrete walls wrap around the front of this residence in Quito, Ecuador, which local firm Estudio Felipe Escudero modelled on "the physical form of a hug". More
