Archinect - News2024-09-07T19:48:31-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/149976652/big-s-ship-office-building-docks-at-the-philadelphia-navy-yard
BIG's ship/office building docks at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Julia Ingalls2016-11-03T12:40:00-04:00>2016-11-07T23:43:02-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0n/0ng85efpvgawk5zp.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>What features an interior periscope, exterior stacked precast concrete panels in a basket-weave shape that mimic the curvature of a ship's hull, and 26,000 square feet of freshly occupied office space? Bjarke Ingels Group's newly completed "Intrepid," a four-story, LEED Gold certified office building for <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149953927/inga-saffron-calls-big-s-new-navy-yard-building-mesmerizing-reminiscent-of-a-richard-serra-sculpture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Philadelphia Navy Yard</a> which just welcomed its first tangible tenant, the Penn Capital Management Company, Inc., on its top floor.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/et/etevhk629r8zzykk.jpg"></p><p>The Intrepid's site context is closely tied to its design concept. As BIG partner Kai-Uwe Bergmann explains: “In many cases, architects design big, boxy buildings that could be placed anywhere and don’t connect directly to the site. You would really be hard-pressed to place 1200 Intrepid anywhere else, due to how it connects with its surroundings. Our commission involved creating a speculative office building, for which no tenants were committed. The key challenge here was to create a reason for tenants to be here with the constraint of a stringent bu...</p>