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One Vanderbilt
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10/30 Hudson Yards
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55 Hudson Yards
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505 Fifth Street
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MNP Tower
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Heron Tower
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52 Lime Street
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18 Robinson
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Otemachi Tower
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SOHO Gubei
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New York, NY, USA
One Vanderbilt
Client: Hines, SL Green Type: Office, Retail, Civic Size: 162,600 m2 / 1,750,000 ft2 Height: 427 m / 1,401 ft
Set to become the tallest office tower in Midtown, One Vanderbilt will skillfully meet the market demands of Midtown East as it transforms the civic experience of the Grand Central District. Following the layered architectural language of neighboring New York City icons, One Vanderbilt joins the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building as one of three point towers to define the city’s renowned skyline.
One Vanderbilt fits into the city’s network of public transport more than any other building in the city, blending private enterprise and the public realm. The base of the building becomes part of the spatial sequence of Grand Central and a doorstep to the city, greeting thousands of commuters daily. An integrated complex of below grade conditions offers connections to the terminal, the new East Side Access, and an active urban base. Formally, the building’s massing is comprised of four interlocking and tapering volumes that spiral toward the sky, an elegant shape in sympathetic proportion to the nearby Chrysler Building. At the base, a series of angled cuts organize a visual procession to Grand Central, revealing the Vanderbilt corner of the terminal’s magnificent cornice – a view that has been obstructed for nearly a century.
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Following the formal language of great New York buildings such as the Chrysler, Empire State, and Woolworth Buildings, One Vanderbilt tapers in an elegant spiral to a narrow point.
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One Vanderbilt reframes the Grand Central District, creating a new pedestrian plaza and celebrating the historic Terminal by exposing its cornice for the first time in a century.
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New York, NY, USA
10 & 30 Hudson Yards
Client: Related Companies, Oxford Properties Group Type: Office, Headquarters Size: 400,000 m2 / 4,300,000 ft2
At a time when extraordinary urban projects are arising around the world, Hudson Yards distinguishes itself as an important symbol of New York’s continued leadership in global urbanism.
Anchoring the east side of the largest private real estate development in U.S. history, the first two towers (10 and 30 Hudson Yards) and retail podium (the Shops at Hudson Yards) link directly to the prevailing industrial character of the West Side and enhance the burgeoning neighborhood with a fresh visual dynamic. The two towers tilt in opposing directions in a purposeful dialogue. One tower defers to the city and the other pays homage to the Hudson River. The towers’ skyline presence offers varying experiences depending on the viewing location and creates a dynamic presence on the New York cityscape. Anchoring the southern corner of the site and straddling the famed High Line, the Class-A office tower, 10 Hudson Yards, will serve as Coach’s global headquarters as well as host to such world-class companies as L’Oréal USA and SAP. Coach’s “vertical campus” features a soaring atrium and floor-to-ceiling glass in a column-free space, and is designed to accommodate the modern high-density office environment. The tallest tower in the development, 30 Hudson Yards, will be home to the highest outdoor observation deck in New York City, and global media and entertainment company, Time Warner, and its subsidiaries, HBO, CNN, and Warner Brothers. The tower will feature large, efficient floor plans, cutting-edge communications systems for tenants and unparalleled amenities for workers.
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Tapestry's "vertical campus" in 10 Hudson Yards, which emphasizes collaboration and transparency with a soaring atrium and connected meeting spaces, was the result of close collaboration between the anchor tenant and the KPF design team.
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The lobby of 10 Hudson Yards is a balancing act of planning and tenant expectations. The lobby spans two levels, with entrances off of the elevated High Line park as well as off the street, while also catering to the requirements of the building's two major tenants.
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New York, NY, USA
55 Hudson Yards
Client: Related Companies Type: Office Size: 120,800 m2 / 1,300,000 ft2
55 Hudson Yards synthesizes the contemporary, sleek forms of Manhattan's new mega-development with the industrial roots of its neighboring Meatpacking District.
The tower’s strong, orthogonal façade provides a stabilizing force in the dynamic skyline of Hudson Yards, emphasizing the simple elegance of the building’s rational form. A consistent grid of gunmetal both invokes modernism and echoes the historic, castiron structures of the neighborhood. Fenestration modules shift in size between the podium and tower fronts while column-free corners and multiple terraces offer enhanced views of the Hudson River, High Line, and New York City. Highly flexible and efficient, the tower comprises large floor plates with ideal core-to-glass depths and high finished ceiling heights that make the property especially appealing to tenants from the legal, technology, and creative industries. It also includes 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail space and rests atop the new 7 line subway extension, making it highly accessible from and connected to the rest of the city. Incorporating various sustainable design strategies, the tower is targeted for LEED Gold certification.
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Terraces are a key faรงade element for 55 Hudson Yards, highlighted in the podium at key corners for views and also integrated into the tower on the east and west faรงades for tenants.
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Tech Firm Test Fit
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Law Office Test Fit
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New York, NY, USA
505 Fifth Avenue
Client: Kipp Stawski Type: Office, Retail Size: 28,000 m2 / 298,000 ft2
Located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, one of the most prominent intersections in New York City, the 26-story, mixed-use tower offers unmatched views of the New York Public Library and Bryant Park.
Unlike most office towers in the city, where steel construction is the norm, 505 Fifth Avenue has a cast-in-place concrete structure that provides a level of building safety exceeding New York City Building Code requirements. The floor plate configuration allows for a reduced number of columns and a 15-foot cantilever above the podium thus eliminating the need for perimeter columns. Paired with a side-loaded core, the design allows for an uninterrupted, highly transparent glass skin and 11-foot ceiling heights, maximizing views. The mass is organized as a collection of pieces that relate in scale to the surrounding fabric. The curtain wall system weaves together the distinct characteristics of the tower’s midtown Manhattan milieu. The 42nd Street façade is planar, while the one on Fifth Avenue is angular. A single curtain-wall type joins these two expressions. The entrance lobby was designed in collaboration with artist James Turrell. Together, the sublime quality of the light and the frenetic nature of 42nd Street create a diptych that is as specific to the site
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The side-core design, coupled with a widelyspaced column grid, provides tenants with stunning floor-to-ceiling views of Bryant Park.
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Vancouver, Canada
MNP Tower
Client: Oxford Properties Group Team: Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership (Associate Architect) Type: Office Size: 27,800 m2 / 299,000 ft2
A slender boutique office building on the Vancouver waterfront, MNP Tower sensitively negotiates its context at every level, from its place on the skyline to the vibrant streetscape it is a part of.
A striking but restrained form, MNP Tower has a curvilinear geometry that complements the more traditional rectilinear forms surrounding it. The building deftly mediates between two iconic Vancouver buildings: from the east, the building serves as a backdrop for the 1920s, Art Deco Marine Building, one of Vancouver’s most significant heritage buildings, and from the west, the 1960s Guinness Tower. The vitality of the streetscape is a priority for this design. The building’s curved lobby supports circulation through the site and opens onto a public plaza that is shared with Guinness Tower. The accessible plaza offers connections between West Hastings Street and West Cordova Street, and offers a sunlit area for use in warm months. The design also retains the historic façade of the University Club, a heritage building on the site, allowing the project to maintain the historic streetwall along West Hastings Street that begins with the Marine Building.
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By retaining the historic faรงade of the University Club, a heritage building on the site, MNP Tower not only preserves the area's architectural heritage, but also provides a more human-scaled street experience.
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London, UK
Heron Tower
Client: Heron Property Corporation Type: Office, Retail Size: 67,800 m2 / 729,000 ft2
The tallest building in the City of London upon its completion, Heron Tower represents a new generation of office tower, with highly flexible space organized around a series of office "villages" with a triple-height atrium at the heart of each.
Unlike the earlier generation of tall buildings in the City whose monolithic forms are mute within their urban context, Heron Tower is a transparent and articulate structure, tempering growing urban concerns associated with construction, operation and maintenance through the integration of innovative technology to promote environmental responsibility. From the Bishopsgate approach, the building provides a marker to the northern edge of the city core. The face of the building reveals the organization within, its richly textured northern elevation displaying the internal stacked atria. A slender lift core is animated by the movement of glazed lift cars. To the east and west, a highly transparent ventilated faรงade creates an energy-efficient enclosure. At its base, Heron Tower enhances the pedestrian experience with restaurants, public space and transparency, while at its top, a popular restaurant activates the skyline and provides public access to views of the city.
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Heron Tower was designed as a series of stacked, three-story villages, providing collaborative, multi-level spaces for tenants.
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As part of the scheme, an adjacent congested street was closed and then landscaped, creating a more pleasant pedestrian environment adjacent to the ground-level restaurant.
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The building faรงade integrates photovoltaic cells into the fullheight glazing, effectively treating an innovative sustainability measure as an architectural feature. The building has a solar electricity generating capacity of 200 kWp.
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London, UK
52 Lime Street
Client: WRBC Development, Property Group Partners Type: Office, Headquarters Size: 59,400 m2 / 639,100 ft2
The first building to be certified “Excellent” under the 2014 BREEAM standards, 52 Lime Street, also known as “The Scalpel,” is a striking new office tower in the heart of the City of London.
At 42 stories, 52 Lime Street is a tall, yet sympathetic addition to the City cluster, designed with particular regard to distant and local views. Its simple geometric form is reinforced by partially reflective glass and bright metallic fold lines. Its form enabled improvements to the north-south route through the city block and the creation of a new public plaza, recalling Lime Street Square, which was lost in the 1940s, at the center of a group of buildings that includes Lloyds of London and the Willis Building. The tower leans away from Leadenhall so as to be invisible behind the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral when approached from the west on Fleet Street, and the roofline falls away sharply to the south in recognition of the overall composition of the City cluster. The provision of high-quality, modern and sustainable office space is appropriate for the building’s location in the heart of the City’s insurance district and supports the City’s position as one of the world’s leading international and business centers.
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With its deferential angles and considered massing, 52 Lime Street is a sympathetic part of the larger City of London cluster of towers.
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Singapore, Singapore
18 Robinson
Client: Tuan Sing Holdings, Ltd. Type: Office, Retail Size: 259,250 m2 / 24,085 ft2
Robinson Tower synthesizes the unique conditions that define the physical and cultural context of contemporary Singapore, creating a signature boutique retail and office structure.
The design creates a dramatic visual and functional terminus at the V-shaped site defined by Market Street and Robinson Road. Two primary volumes, a hovering crystalline office tower and a secondary retail podium, make up the principle building elements, separated by a podium garden. 20 office floors extend elegantly well above the podium, maximizing the building height and marina views. The multi-faceted composition of the tower serves to increase natural light, mitigate direct views into adjacent towers, and reflect light to create a gem-like beacon for Singapore. The podium features a similarly faceted vocabulary combined with a reduced scale and materiality that form a contextual relationship with the angular roof form and terracotta of Lau Pa Sat. The podium is elevated above the street, enhancing the spaciousness and continuity from the ground level entrance into the atrium garden. The atrium forms the nucleus around which the office lobby, retail and F&B are organized. Urban windows facing Robinson Road expose retailors and internal activity.
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Tokyo, Japan
The Otemachi Tower
Client: Tokyo Tatemono Team: Taisei (Architect of Record), Kerry Hill (Interior Designer) Type: Office, Headquarters, Hospitality Size: 198,000 m2 / 2,131,300 ft2
Named after its well-known Tokyo location, this 38-story building, which quietly distinguishes itself in the skyline, is situated between the Imperial Palace Park and Tokyo Station, in the heart of the city’s office district.
The Otemachi Tower is headquarters for Nomura Securities and the five-star Aman Hotel. Rising above a nexus of five subway lines, the building’s lower levels contain a retail concourse that connect the tower to Otemachi no mori, a public park on the western perimeter of the site. The rectilinear form of the Otemachi Tower is modulated by deep vertical and horizontal recesses. These recesses contribute to the primary views of this building from the Imperial Palace and from Tokyo Station. The horizontal reveals echo the programmatic stacking of the tower; the hotel lobby and atrium can be seen at the building’s peak. The wall system is composed of floor to ceiling glass separated by pairs of deep, vertical fins made of cast aluminum. The outside edge of each fin has a rough cleft finish, which adds a subtly irregular texture to the even modulation of the curtain wall. As the tower wall reaches the ground, its hemline raises and lowers in order to accommodate lobby volumes, entrance canopies, and other ground level features.
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Despite its location in a dense part of Tokyo and its connection to a bustling subway station, the lower levels of the building maintain an openness, with high ceilings and a glass wall offering views of the outdoor Otemori Forest.
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Shanghai, China
SOHO Gubei
Client: SOHO China Team: Tongji Architectural Design Group (LDI) Type: Office Size: 160,300 m2/ 1,724,900 ft2
The distinctive zig-zag form of SOHO Gubei strikes a dynamic silhouette that extends the character of the new Hongqiao Central Park and creates a signature landmark for Shanghai’s central business district.
The project consists of a 38-story office tower and a 12-story podium with retail and basement parking. The landscape design takes advantage of proximity to the park, extending the experience of resting and strolling in a lush natural environment into the project. Taking advantage of its central position in views across the park, the architectural form is at the same time rational and expressive. Inspired by the proportions of Constantin Brâncuși’s Endless Column, the tower presents itself as an undulating obelisk featuring a diagonally canted zig-zag profile. Each side of its sculptural form consists of four stacked volumes. A series of shifted grids create a density of wall surface that shades from the sun, reduces glass glare, and creates a sense of urban solidity. The podium massing complements the tower with a simpler articulation. The angle on its vertical planes place emphasis on the street experience by reflecting the residential neighborhood. On the top level, a sky garden is placed, offering dining and outdoor spaces to both the building tenants and the general public.
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