HKS Completes Utah's Tallest Skyscraper with Air Quality Display LED Crown
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Ellen Eberhardt
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
HKS architecture studio has completed Astra Tower, a 41-storey residential skyscraper in Salt Lake City that is now Utah's tallest building. The tower features an innovative LED crown that displays real-time air pollution levels, serving as a public information system about urban air quality. The building's design includes interconnected volumes and aims to protect the community by informing residents about good or bad air quality in the surrounding area.
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HKS has completed a 41-storey residential skyscraper in Salt Lake City, which is now the tallest building in Utah and contains an LED crown that displays current levels of air pollution
Astra Tower is made up of several interconnected volumes
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