We continue our roundup with the best metal projects of the year, including a foamed aluminium mountain cut-out, 164,000 meters of chain and a copper clad cabin.
Foster + Partners has completed its first office building in Russia. Commissioned by the Russian Copper Company, the tower sports an eye-catching energy efficient exterior that's inspired by the chemical structure of copper.
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has designed an appropriately coloured office block for the Russian Copper Company in the city of Yekaterinburg, which is the studio s first project in Russia.
Overlooking the Iset River in the centre of the city in central Russia, the 15-storey office block was built as the headquarters for the Russian Copper Company (RCC) – one of the country s biggest copper mining companies.
Foster + Partners is designing the headquarters for RCC in Yekaterinburg
The distinctive tower was designed to directly reference the company s mining activities.
Its triangular-shaped cladding was informed by the crystal lattice that makes up copper on an atomic level, while the stainless steel cladding panels were coloured using a Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) process to create a copper-coloured finish.