BIG designs EPIQ tower for Quito covered in earthy coloured tiles

Architecture firm BIG has unveiled its second project for Ecuador's capital city: a mixed-use tower comprising two curved blocks covered in  herringbone-patterned cladding and pockets of greenery. 
Revealed today, BIG's mixed-used EPIQ tower was developed in collaboration with Quito's Uribe & Schwarzkopf. It marks BIG's second project in the city after the IQON tower, which was revealed last year and is currently under construction.Described as a "vertical city",  th