Morris Adjmi designs skyscraper with lancet windows for New York City

November 1, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

New York firm Morris Adjmi Architects has designed a residential tower for the city’s NoMad district, with a window pattern that becomes more decorative towards its top. The almost 500-foot-tall (152-metre) skyscraper, developed by Ekstein and Pinnacle, will be located at 30 East 31st Street and aptly named 30 E 31. Its neighbourhood, known as

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BEI Function Space / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

November 1, 2017 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

Neri&Hu rehauls Opposite House’s BEI restaurant into “BEI Space” a multipurpose function room serving the increasing demand for meeting and event spaces in Beijing. While the typical function room in a hotel tends to be situated in dark enclosures with no natural light, the given site actually has an existing skylight. To fully utilize this asset, the design challenge becomes how to bring in as much light as possible to the space and how to subdue any sense of being underground. The resulting design concept, first, creates a landscape zone that is bathed in light, and second, inserts within it a luminous glass box.