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    QUITO

    Dec 08, 2022 2 minutes

    01. IQON

    art of local developer Uribe Schwarzkopf’s plan to reshape Quito’s skyline by enlisting the help of global architects, Iqon is the brutalist South American debut of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Now officially Quito’s tallest building, Iqon comes with a prickly ‘pineapple skin’ that creates plenty of nooks for trees to be planted on the balconies. Uribe Schwarzkopf

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