Amsterdam-based studio Concrete has completed an apartment tower across from Manhattan that features a range of unusual amenities, including a "creative lab", and a residency program for scientists and artists.
Called Jersey City Urby, the 69-storey skyscraper is located at 200 Greene Street in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. Rising 713 feet (217 metres), the skyscraper is the tallest residential building in New Jersey, but falls shy of the state's overall tallest structure: the 781-foot-tall (238-metre) 30 Hudson Street office tower.

Urby contains 762 rental units, from studios to one- and two-bedroom apartments.
The grey tower is composed of irregularly stacked blocks, with a number of floor plates cantilevering over the ground below. The building's Jenga-like massing has drawn comparisons to Herzog & de Meuron's 56 Leonard tower in Manhattan. The New Jersey skyscraper is the second in a series of Urby-branded developments, all designed by Concrete ? the Dutch studio known for its design of citizenM hotels in Europe, North America and Asia.

The first Urby project opened in 2016 on New York's Staten Island, and a third is scheduled to open this summer in Harrison, New Jersey.
"Urby is a rethink of the residential rental-housing concept that is design-driven, tailored to fit every neighbourhood, and developed with the needs of the contemporary urban renter in mind," the team said.

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