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ODA plans new residential development in East Williamsburg

2024-04-16T14:14:00-04:00

ODA has revealed plans for a new residential project under construction in Brooklyn that will deliver 336 units of studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments. Their design for the Lorimer House and Copper Lofts in East Williamsburg calls for a triangular block-scale development connected by a bridge, surrounding three small interior courtyards and defined by curved corners that soften its form in response to the site's unique dimensions.

Rendering courtesy of Secchi Smith

Other aspects of the project include a third-floor pocket park space that combines with an upper-level amenity lounge and a circular roof deck with landscaping to give residents a total of 26,000 square feet of outdoor areas. The building's facade is composed of brick with horizontal metal panels, vertical metallic piers, and a slab edge to create an appealing visual character completed by integrated planters, balconies, and recessed terraces.

Rendering courtesy of Secchi Smith

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ODA completes New York residential building with a glass box facade

2023-09-12T12:10:00-04:00

ODA Architecture has completed a residential scheme at 101 West 14th Street in New York City defined by a glass box facade. The 13-story condominium holds 44 units between one and four bedrooms alongside 10,000 square feet of amenities, with interior design by Whitehall Interiors.

Image credit: Michael Young

The building’s exterior features a glass box facade with fractal geometry to create a “sense of lightness, airiness, and depth,” according to ODA. Drawing inspiration from nature, the team says it arranged the glass boxes with gentle pattern recognition for a “natural soothing effect on our brains.”

Image credit: Scott Frances

Inside, the glass box facade translates as 18-foot-tall floor-to-ceiling glass walls, triple-paned to reduce noise interference from the surrounding city. Most units also include outdoor terraces “uniquely recessed in the geometric facade of the building,” creating fully covered outdoor private spaces.

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ODA's latest experimentation in form could deliver another mixed-use tower to burgeoning Fort Lauderdale

2022-09-13T15:02:00-04:00

Revisiting a booming city and building type that has garnered accolades of late, ODA-Architecture has just revealed details of another mixed-used high-rise tower project in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida — one of America’s fastest-growing communities.

The latest addition to the city’s skyline will feature a 1.1-million-square-foot cylindrical design located in the newly-developed Rio Vista neighborhood. The 633 SE 3rd Ave development is said to include a total of 830 residential units and another 13,000 square feet of commercial space situated on top of a podium lined with a recessed three-dimensional screen facade that doubles as a decorative element at night and covers a 951-capacity parking garage underneath.

Rendering: VERO Digital, image courtesy ODA.

From the activated ground floor area up, the 47-story structure is defined by a sequence of stepped round volumes encased in a glazed facade with alternating balconies that nicely break up the m...

Meet international influencers ODA Architecture: Your Next Employer?

2022-07-25T12:24:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based Stayner Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series east to New York City, where we find ODA Architecture.

Founded in 2007, the studio has developed an international reputation for delivering what it describes as “imaginative and mold-breaking designs.” ODA’s team composition spanning architecture, interiors, landscaping, and master planning has allowed for the development of a diverse portfolio, with recent examples from our editorial including mixed-use towers in Fort Lauderdale, the transformation of a historic Rotterdam post office, and a proposal for zoning regulation changes to expand public spaces in New York.

Archinect Feature: Beyond the Street: ODA Proposes a Zoning Regulation To Expand the Public Space in New York

The firm is now seeking to expand by advertising over on Archinect Jobs for several roles in architecture, landscape design, and interiors. For candidates interested in applying for the role, a...

ODA unveils renderings of two massive, mixed-use towers in Fort Lauderdale

2022-05-24T17:08:00-04:00

New York-based architecture and design firm ODA-Architecture has released renderings of its Ombelle project, a pair of mixed-use towers in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Developer Dependable Equities tapped ODA to design the architecture, interiors, and landscape for the 1.5-million-square-foot structure.

Image courtesy ODA

The development, which comprises two mirrored 43-story towers, will offer 1,100 rental units, 11,217 square feet of retail space, and 27,837 square feet of indoor amenities. Ombelle is proposed to rise at 300 Northeast 3rd Avenue in the city’s growing Flagler Village neighborhood.

Image courtesy ODA

The two defining, sculpted towers rise from a 9-story podium, which is supported by a double-height colonnade. According to the architects, this reinforces a visual connection between the indoor and outdoor spaces and is aimed to foster public activity. The ground level is designed to house a mix of retail and restaurants, with open-air seating.

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ODA reveals designs for a dynamic new multi-volume tower in Fort Lauderdale

2021-12-23T13:48:00-05:00

Renderings have been revealed for a head-turning tower that offers itself as a “new gateway” to one of South Florida’s fastest-growing communities.

ODA-Architecture is behind the newly-released plan for a massive 1.8-million-square-foot mixed-use development in Fort Lauderdale that would help enhance the city’s skyline with a dynamic 48-story tower defined by a dramatic open void.

Image courtesy ODA Architecture

The double-volume design is joined by a skybridge to create a split massing with 38 stories of penthouse offerings and 938 other private residential units atop a 10-story podium.

Image courtesy ODA Architecture

Situated in the Sailboat Bend neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, the 300 West Broward development offers views of surrounding public parks and cultural attractions as well as 24,000 square feet of ground-level retail space accessible to the public via a tapered entrance placed in the building’s southwest corner.

Image courtesy ODA Architecture

The plan includes caban...

ODA completes cubic condos in DUMBO

2021-01-21T18:03:00-05:00

ODA New York-designed condominiums, 98 Front Street, have opened in the heart of DUMBO. The 10-story luxury condominium comprises 165 studio, one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom residences ranging in size from 400 to over 2,000 square feet. Asking prices for the homes range from approximately $650,000 to $4,000,000.

Photo by Aaron Thompson

"There is a simplicity in 98 Front Street’s design in the materiality and process that accentuates the building’s jewel box facade," said ODA founder Eran Chen, in a statement. "To provide residents with the best living experience, we played with the geometry and layouts to create open floor plans that allow for flexible programming for living, working, and entertaining at home, while maximizing the available light, air and outdoor spaces of each residence. Each of our nearly 50 residential buildings across New York City has its own unique geometry and personality and we're excited to see 98 Front join the ranks."

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Inspired by Bamboo scaffolding, ODA designs "Dragon Gate" at the Canal Street Triangle

2018-04-05T15:01:00-04:00

ODA New York—known for their distinctive residential projects like 420 Kent, 2222 Jackson, and 251 1st Street—has put forth a proposal that would reclaim an underutilized pedestrian island in Manhattan's Chinatown. The 'Dragon Gate' pavilion, a massive steel structure reminiscent of bamboo scaffolding, would offer a new gateway to the growing Chinatown neighborhood at the Canal Street Triangle.

Rendering: Labtop

The design, recognizing Chinatown as home to the largest Chinese population outside of Asia, deploys modern building materials while invoking Chinese Symbolism. Blending the two, the project manages to capture the neighborhood's unique characteristics and honors "the spirit of a place that feels at once timeless and original."

Diagram: ODA New York

Designed for the triangular traffic island at the intersection of Canal, Baxter, and Walker Streets, the pavilion mimics the triangular shape in order to take full advantage of its site. Rising 33 feet, the Drag...

Watch the progress of ODA's "Living Facade" in Park Slope

2017-07-18T16:47:00-04:00

Construction of ODA's 251 1st Street residential complex in Park Slope is now reaching completion, demonstrating fragmented massing which the firm believes imbues the structure with a "living facade."

As the architects explain, "ODA’s inflected the building’s upper massing with a cascade of setbacks and terraces, yielding substantial outdoor space, as well as multiple exposures for units." Here's a gif demonstrating the concept from a different perspective:

Photo: Miguel de Guzman

ODA's new condo building 15 Renwick Street "combats cold modernism"

2017-06-15T13:41:00-04:00

The dark, quasi-Victorian corridors of ODA's 31-unit apartment building on New York City's Renwick Street are a purposeful nod toward British-born James Renwick, 19th century scientist and engineer, after which the street is named. The contrast between the portrait-clad hallways and the light, modern rooms they adjoin is striking; the two spaces almost seem to be from two entirely different buildings.

However, as an alliterative press release notes, ODA is purposefully trying to "combat the cold modernism of so much contemporary construction" and the architects appear to succeed, primarily because the interiors don't shy away from texture. While the clean lines and unabashed abstract geometry of the modern canon are prominent here, so is an emphasis on not obscuring or disguising the composition of the materials.

The wood grain, both on the kitchen cabinets and the polished floors, is prominent. Instead of a soulless cradle of anonymous perfection, the dwelling spaces are rooted firm...

Check out 2222 Jackson, ODA's new pixelated rental project in Long Island City

2017-04-07T13:58:00-04:00

The New York-based firm ODA has recently completed 2222 Jackson, an 11-story, 175-unit rental project in Long Island City, a mere stone’s throw away from MoMA PS1. The pixel-like, concrete-poured exterior is intended to complement the nearby museum, while simultaneously encapsulating the designers’ “larger mission”. That is to say, the building is designed to work “within”, rather than against, zoning constraints, representing the practice’s focus on “innovating architectural morphology in the interest of improving not only its residents’ everyday experience, but their general quality of life.”

2222 Jackson Avenue from ODA on Vimeo.

The building was conceived as a simple, modular grid with a sequence of 12-feet wide bays. Each studio apartment, which are 32 feet in length and which occupy the width of one bay, projects seven feet past the façade line, in the process producing mid-facade corner windows as well as terraces for the apartments above. This results in 30% more outdoor spac...

It is a euphemistic urbanism and overlay

2012-07-11T21:14:00-04:00

In view of recent events, I have found myself asking whether it is a good thing to make a piece of city where rioting is impossible. The Olympic Park, even in legacy mode, seems to be built for this purpose.

Kieran Long revisits Olympic Park a year later and looks ahead to it's “legacy”. Long finds that all the "regeneration" and "overlay" while positivist and successful in providing amenities is more a "carpet of statistical generalisations and demographic assessments" and clarifies something about how the British (ed. and I might suggest society at large in the 21st century attempts) to make cities.