OMA completes black Manhattan apartments with "prismatic corner"
Triangular windows fold up the corner of this OMA-designed housing block, which marks the architecture firm's first ground-up structure in New York City.
OMA completed its milestone project, 121 East 22nd Street, on an L-shaped property in Manhattan that spans Lexington Avenue, 23rd Street and 22nd Street.
The residential project is designed to be as unique as possible, while paying homage to neighbouring pre-war structures and adhering to the city's zoning laws and height limits.
The building comprises two blocks that sandwich an existing 11-storey tower, and a new courtyard slotted in the middle. The larger of the two volumes fronts the corner of 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue and is detailed with a series of triangular windows that tuck in and out along the corner edge. Photograph by Iwan Baan
"We have conceived a new, dynamic building for the neighbourhood that communicates both history and modernity," said OMA's Shohei Shigematsu, who has headed the firm's New York outpost since 2008.
"The design appropriately responds to and harnesses the energy of the city and duality of the site's urban context ? the dynamic intersection of Gramercy Park and Madison Square is expressed by a three-dimensional, prismatic corner that introduces a new identity to the neighbourhood," he added.
The exterior of the smaller block facing 22nd Street comprises an undulating black grid of precast concrete panels punched with rectangular windows. The framing gently zigz...
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