OMA in Jersey City
Jersey City announced yesterday [Feb. 26th] that it has commissioned OMA [the Office for Metropolitan Architecture] to design a 1.2 million square foot mixed use tower at 111 First Street in the city’s growing waterfront development. The program will include condos, artist live/work studios & gallery, ‘public amenities’, hotel, some retail, and parking.
Now, to answer the question that you must have after looking at this model: yes, the design is basically three separate buildings stacked on top of one another to form a 52 storey tower. The volumes serve to separate the various elements of the building’s program into different ‘boxes’ – public spaces & hotel, artists studios and galleries, and deeper apartments. In order to ‘maximize views’ these volumes are stacked perpendicular to one another, and as a by-product create roof terraces on the 17th and 36th floors – for the hotel & spa, and shared terraces for the residential units. As a means to ‘activate’ these terraces, dynamic programs such as the spa, restaurant, galleries, etc, are placed along them.
More to come when I can find it, my ninjas.
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Posted: February 27th, 2007
at 7:30am by orangemenace
Categories: architecture, housing, towering pagodas
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amazing!!! when will it be complete?
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21 Sep 08 at 12:42 pm