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OMA completes stepped Greenpoint Landing towers in Brooklyn

2022-12-08T11:36:00-05:00

Construction has been completed on OMA’s Eagle + West towers along the Brooklyn waterfront. Designed in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle, the towers represent OMA’s first high-rise scheme in New York.

The 600,000-square-foot development comprises two towers and a seven-story building, holding a total of 745 residential units. The two towers lean into and away from each other, with expanding and contracting forms determined by an attempt to maximize internal efficiency. While the forty-story tower widens as it rises in order to maximize views, the thirty-story tower widens towards the ground to face the waterfront.

Image credit: Jason O'Rear

The stepped massing of the towers sees the form broken into seven-to-eight-story blocks, reflecting the scale of neighboring buildings, according to the architects. The subdivision is further expressed on the façade itself, where a grid of precast concrete panels is carved by angled planes alternating in orientatio...

OMA's Greenpoint Landing towers top out in Brooklyn

2021-05-04T15:21:00-04:00

Roughly 18 months after breaking ground in November 2019, two residential towers of the OMA-designed Greenpoint Landing development in Brooklyn have structurally topped out at 300 feet (North Tower) and 400 feet (South Tower) respectively.

The project was first introduced by the developers Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group in March 2019 and is expected to deliver 745 units of mixed-income housing — 30% marked as Affordable and 70% Market Rate — on Greenpoint's transformed, formerly industrial waterfront.

Photo: Elevated Angles LLC, courtesy of Highbury Concrete.

"These towers, our first in Brooklyn, have reached an important milestone made possible by the perseverance of Brookfield, Park Tower Group, BBB and the entire construction and design team during an unprecedented time," Jason Long, OMA Partner-in-Charge, commented on the recent milestone. "It’s exciting to see our collective efforts take shape on Greenpoint’s dynamic skyline."

Rendering of the completed Greenpoint L...

OMA breaks ground on new twin tower complex in Brooklyn

2019-11-19T13:54:00-05:00

The Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) New York office and developers Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group have broken ground on a new 745-unit, dual tower complex on the Greenpoint waterfront in Brooklyn.

Image courtesy of OMA/Bloom.

The housing towers, rising to 300- and 400-feet respectively, feature 8,600 square feet of ground floor retail spaces that connect to a new one-acre extension of the burough's waterfront park system.

The complex brings more than 40,000 square feet of new public green spaces designed by James Corner Field Operations to the district, according to a press release. Part of the plan includes extending an existing street that currently dead-ends into the site through the project, completing a broad esplanade that connects the waterfront to the inner reaches of Brooklyn. The portion of the site that will contain the new street is being donated to the city in perpetuity by the development team.

Image courtesy of OMA/Bloom.

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Brooklyn gets its first set of 'stacked boxes' OMA towers

2019-03-07T15:39:00-05:00

Two new OMA-designed residential towers at Greenpoint Landing, Brooklyn were unveiled this morning by Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group, the developers behind the endeavor. The towers, in conjunction with a lower seven-story building, will offer 745 housing units and are expected to accelerate the transformation of the post-industrial waterfront into a thriving residential community.

"By extending Eagle Street and Dupont Street, the towers will expand the existing public waterfront esplanade, creating a total of 2.5-acres of continuous public open space along the shoreline, and will add 8,600 sf of ground-floor retail to the neighborhood," explains OMA's project description.

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"We have designed two towers—a ziggurat and its inverse—carefully calibrated to one another," said Jason Long, OMA Partner-in-Charge, about the twin tower ensemble's design which will include 30% affordable housing units. "Defined by t...