Native studio Hill West Architects has accomplished the sail-shaped Olympia Dumbo residential skyscraper in Brooklyn, which has a design knowledgeable by the economic heritage of the borough.
Situated alongside the Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo, the Olympia Dumbo tower rises 401 ft tall (122 metres) and has 33 storeys. It has a wedge-shaped kind and sits on high of an angular podium.
Hill West Architects labored with developer Fortis Property Group and design studio Workstead on the mission, which was knowledgeable by Dumbo’s industrial heritage.
“The constructing’s pre-cast concrete podium options substantial vertical parts impressed by the Brooklyn Bridge abutments and Dumbo’s historic buildings, whereas the glass and steel tower gives a holistic reference with its sail-like kind,” Hill West Architects founding companion Stephen Hill advised Dezeen.
“The tower tapers and twists because it grows larger, with the balconies projecting from every story to create an offset sample and focus the view. As the sunshine displays the floor from completely different angles, the constructing comes alive in a means that enhances the tones and textures of the neighbourhood.”
The constructing’s “fan-shaped” base displays the curve of a close-by off-ramp at its again. The alternative facet steps again from the road and holds the primary entrance.
Everything of the constructing is clad in precast concrete panels interspersed with slim home windows.
The constructing’s higher quantity is wedge-shaped. Its curved facet steadily steps again because it reaches the highest, permitting for every flooring to have a non-public terrace. Imaginative and prescient glass window partitions cowl its expanse and create a rhythm in sync with the environment, in line with the staff.
The 76 residences are one to five-bedroom residences, with 38,000 sq. ft (3,530 sq. metres) of indoor and outside facilities, together with New York Metropolis’s “highest” personal tennis courtroom, a bowling alley and a pet spa.
Interiors by Workstead embrace gentle ash wooden flooring, maple cabinetry, stone slab backsplashes and satin nickel {hardware}.
“Workstead conceived the inside design to uniquely reference the story of New York Harbor with a subdued, natural palette, reinterpreting Hill West’s facade all through the interiors,” stated the staff.
In keeping with the staff, the constructing has a few of the costliest residences in Brooklyn.
Olympia Dumbo marks the continuation of high-rise growth all through Brooklyn, with the Brooklyn Tower, the borough’s first supertall, having been accomplished in 2023 and a pair of stacked towers accomplished in 2022 alongside the Greenpoint waterfront.
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Undertaking credit:
Architect: Hill West Architects
Interiors: Workstead
Panorama architect: MPFP
Developer: Fortis Property Group
Building administration: UA
