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• Architects

  Morphosis

• Location

  Roosevelt Island, New York, NY 10044, United States

• Category

  Institutional buildings

• Design Director

  Thom Mayne

• Area

  160000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Matthew Carbone, Maris Hutchinson, Cornell Tech

Morphosis Architects has revealed their designs for a new headquarters for manufacturing corporation The Kolon Group to be located in in emerging Magok district of Seoul, South Korea. Part of a revitalization effort fostered by the Seoul Metropolitan Government to turn the area into a new “industrial ecosystem,” the four-acre project will sit adjacent to Magok’s central park, becoming the district’s first major completed building.

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Morphosis Architects has teamed up with Albert Kahn Associates to expand Detroit's Lawrence Technological University with a new "Taubman Complex." Marked by a "carbon-fiber circulation orb," the complex will form a new grand entrance to the University and provide flexible laboratory space for multidisciplinary research, including robotics and biomedical engineering.

Mophosis Architects have just released their design for the Casablanca Finance City tower in Morocco. The building's iconic crown, coupled with the way the building interacts with ground-level public space, creates an "inverted double-crown" that will serve as social symbol and meeting place. Following the model set in Paris' La Defense district, the project will anchor a new business district (Casablanca Finance City) and embody "Morocco’s vision for the future and setting precedents in building performance, scale, and style for a city that does not yet exist." Slated for completion in 2017, the 226,042 sq. ft building broke ground in December of 2014.

Read on to learn more about Morphosis' brise-soleil-wrapped tower. 

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Construction is underway on a striking new tower by Morphosis Architects in Shenzhen. "A departure from conventional towers," as the practice describes, the "Hanking Center Tower" merges commercial retail with private office space through the folding of its steel structure. Beyond that, tenants are connected via a series communal sky gardens and a massive sun-lit atrium that occupies the building's core.

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• Architects

  Morphosis

• Location

  Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University, Campus Road, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States

• Category

  Student Hall

• Area

  9425.0 m2

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Roland Halbe, Doublespace Photography

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• Architects

  Morphosis Architects

• Location

  5960 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States

• Category

  Student Hall

• Design Director

  Thom Mayne

• Project Principal & Manager

  Kim Groves

• Lead Project Designer

  Chandler Ahrens

• Project Architect

  Aaron Ragan

• Area

  107400.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2014

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• Architects

  Morphosis

• Location

  2201 N. Field Street, Dallas, Texas, United States

• Category

  Museum

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Roland Halbe, Iwan Baan , Morphosis Architects

+ 38

• Architects

  Morphosis - Thom Mayne

• Location

  100 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA

• Category

  Other Public Administration buildings

• Project Team

  Morphosis Team

• Client

  State of California, Department of General Services

• Area

  1200000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2004

• Photographs

  Roland Halbe, Liao Yusheng

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• Architects

  Morphosis

• Location

  Shanghai, China

• Category

  Office buildings

• Client

  Giant Interactive Group

• Area

  253300.0 m2

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Iwan Baan

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• Architects

  Morphosis

• Location

  New York, USA

• Category

  Institutional buildings

• Architecture

  Morphosis Architects

• Project Designers

  Natalia Traverso Caruana, Go-Woon Seo

• Project Team

  Irena Bedenikovic, Salvador Hidalgo, Debbie Lin, Kristina Loock,

• Associated Architect

  Gruzen Samton

• Model Team

  Reinhard Schmoelzer with Patrick Dunn-Baker, Charles Austin, Sean Anderson, Domenique Cheng, Soohyun Cheng, Eui Yeob Jeong, Amy Kwok, Shannon Loew, Brock Hinze, Hugo Martinez, Greg Neudorf

• Project Assistants

  Ben Damron, Graham Ferrier

• It Co Ordinator

  Marty Doscher

• Owner's Representative

  Jonathan Rose Companies

• General Contractor

  FJ Sciame

• Client

  The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

• Program

  Academic and laboratory building with exhibition gallery, auditorium, lounge and multi-purpose space, and retail space

• Area

  16258.0 m2

• Project Year

  2006

• Photographs

  Iwan Baan

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• Architects

  Morphosis

• Location

  Pasadena, CA, USA

• Category

  science center

• Architecture

  Morphosis Architects

• Project Architect

  David Rindlaub

• Project Designers

  Martin Summers, Shanna Yates

• Project Team

  Irena Bedenikovic, Pavel Getov, Debbie Lin, Kristina Loock, David Rindlaub

• Project Manager

  Kim Groves

• Structural Engineer

  John A. Martin & Associates

• Mechanical Electrical Plumbing Engineer

  IBE Consulting Engineers

• Civil Engineer

  KPFF Consulting Engineers

• Landscape Architect

  Katherine Spitz Associates

• Laboratory Consultant

  Research Facilities Design

• Architectural Lighting

  Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, Inc.

• Signage And Graphics

  Follis Design

• Curtain Wall Consultant

  David Van Vokinburg

• Project Assistants

  Patrick Dunn-Baker with Adam Bressler, Laura Foxman, Brock Hinze, Amy Kwok, Hugo Martinez, Mark McPhie, Barbra Moss, Greg Neudorf, Mike Patterson, Aleksander Tamm-Seitz , Rychiee Espinosa, Jennifer Kasick, Kyle Coburn, Christin To, Sunnie Lau

• Job Captain

  Salvador Hidalgo

• Acoustical Engineer

  Martin Newson & Associates, LLC

• Audio Visual And Telecommunications

  Vantage Technology Consulting Group

• Vertical Transportation

  Edgett Williams Consulting Group, Inc.

• Code And Security Consultant

  Schirmer Engineering Corporation

• Specifications

  Technical Resources Consultants, Inc.

• Cost Estimator

  Davis Langdon

• General Contractor

  Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company

• Area

  9290.0 m2

• Project Year

  2009