Our first building in South America! After four years of construction, the 130m-high, 32-story IQON stands as the tallest building in the Ecuadorian capital of #Quito - a city with one of the highest elevations in the world. Biophilia from the neighboring La Carolina Park continues up onto the building façade - which doubles as the building's structure - and into the private domain of each home. The sculptural planters host the roots of the trees and appear as concrete sculptures inside the apartments: “We’ve tried to take all the iconic qualities of Quito – such as the enjoyment of living in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, in a city on the equator where the seasons are perfect for both human and plant life – and bring that experience into the vertical dimension. IQON is an entire vertical community of individual homes; an extension of La Carolina Park that now climbs all the way up to the rooftop," says Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Creative Director, BIG. @IQON @Uribeschwarzkopf 📷 @pablocasalsaguirre_works @BICUBIK #architecture #biophilia #southamerica