Project update: Glæshus Tower
A halfway report from the Malmö site, where the brass cladding has begun to weather and the first stepped terrace has poured.
By Studio
Glæshus Tower passed its halfway pour last month. Twelve storeys are complete to the structural slab, and the curtain wall now reaches the seventh floor. We visited the site on a clear Tuesday and walked the building from the basement plant room to the roof.
The brass is doing what we hoped
The brushed brass mullions, installed in November on the south face, have begun to soften. The first patina is a warm grey-pink that the foundry warned us about but no sample could properly show. It is exactly what we wanted. The west face, installed in late January, is still bright. By midsummer the two faces will read as one.
Stepped terraces, take one
The first of the stepped terraces poured on a cold morning in February. The geometry of the steps, set by our winter-sun studies eighteen months ago, will not be readable until the building is occupied, but standing on the pour we could already feel the angle of light it was made for.
- Curtain wall: seventh floor complete, on programme.
- Stepped terraces: first of nine poured.
- Foyer joinery: mock-up signed off, full production began on 2 March.
- Handover: scheduled for late autumn next year.
