Solar Building Skin Turns Sydney’s Ugliest Tower into an Eco-marvel

Sydney’s ugliest building may soon be getting a new lease on life through to a plan to ‘reskin’ the entire tower with a high-performance photovoltaic skin. Architecture firm Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) has proposed the retrofit, and whether their plan is enacted it would turn the 1960’s brutalist building into a brilliant super-efficient eco-tower.

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Post tags: eco design, green design, LAVA architecture, photovoltaics, rainwater, sustainable design, University of Sydney tower, UTS tower ecoskin, UTS tower redesign

[Source] Jorge Chapa

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