Innovationen Tower, a 125-metre high tower formed of stacked precast concrete modules, has completed as part of an OMA-designed housing development in Stockholm.
Reinier de Graaf led the design for the apartment building, which he said represents a new era for prefabricated housing.

"The Norra Tornen project represents a milestone achievement for us," said De Graaf, partner at OMA.
"[It's] the culmination of an ongoing effort by our office to create the next generation of modern housing typologies, creating the largest possible variety from a limited number of prefabricated elements, allowing the usual formalism of the apartment tower to give way to individuality, domesticity, and perhaps even humanism."

Alternating protruding windows, recessed terraces, and a facade of ribbed concrete brushed with aggregate pebbles were included as "echoes of brutalist architecture", he added. The tower is part of the Norra Tornen development in Hagastaden, a new district to the north of the Swedish capital.

Developers Oscar Properties purchased the land from the City of Stockholm in 2013, with OMA adapting the pre-existing building envelopes left from a cancelled project by architect Aleksander Wolodarski.

Innovationen Tower has 182 homes, from one bedroom apartments, measuring 44 square metres, to a 271-square-metre penthouse. Residents also have a cinema room, dinner room, guest apartment, gym and sauna, and shops on the ground floor.
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