Lever House. From "Faciem" series. Image © Claesson Koivisto Rune
Lever House. Photo © J. Alex Langley | Esto
Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower). From "Faciem" series. Image © Claesson Koivisto Rune
Photo © Ezra Stoller | Hedrich Blessing
…On show at new Tokyo design festival Designart last week, the 12 images – collectively titled Faciem – zoom in on the regimented facades of pioneering towers like Mies’ 1958 Seagram Building in New York and Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s 1974 Sear’s Tower in Chicago.
Each image is made up of hundreds of layers of details created on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and the series took a full-time team from the Stockholm architecture and design studio a year to complete.
Studio co-founders Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune said the idea…stemmed from their interest in abstract art and its impact on architecture’s modernism movement.