Studio Gang completes Hawaii skyscraper with sugar cane-informed facade

Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed a residential tower in Hawaii called Kō'ula with an undulating facade that takes cues from local ecology.
Kō'ula, which means "red sugar cane" in native Hawaiian, is a local plant with a twisting structure that became a major influence on the facade of the tower.
Studio Gang designed a 41-storey residential tower in Hawaii
Studio Gang took the twisting structure of the plant and applied it to the facade so that the windows of 41-storey tower coul