Architectural Record

TRUMPF SMART FACTORY BY BARKOW LEIBINGER

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The buildings that line Interstate 90 in Illinois are typically undistinguished, banal, light-industrial boxes and chain motor inns. The Trumpf Smart Factory, just northwest of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, defies that convention with its bold use of corrugated, rust-colored Corten steel sheets and glass for a facility designed by the firm of Barkow Leibinger. Read more here.