Perkins&Will redesigns earthquake-damaged Alaska office to evoke glacier

Architecture firm Perkins&Will plans to revive a vacant 1970s office building in Alaska by stripping it back and re-cladding it with an angular, glazed facade that mimics a glacier.
The overhaul of the nine-storey Key Bank Plaza office, located in Downtown Anchorage, follows the abandonment of the building.
In 2018 a 7.1-magnitude earthquake structural damage that rendered the building unsafe.
The Key Bank Plaza's facades will be updated with curtain walls
Alongside a contemporary facelift,