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Morris Adjmi's Anchor House helps new Berkeley students feel at home

2024-11-26T11:37:00-05:00

Morris Adjmi Architects' new Helen Diller Anchor House student housing project has debuted on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.

Photo by Jason O'Rear

The project is a resource meant to house transfer students who are a vital part of the UC system and more likely to be first-generation college students from low-income backgrounds than their peers. Anchor House has ample space for their transition with 772 beds at 450,650 square feet. Its construction was funded entirely through the Helen Diller Family Foundation, helping the university towards its 9,000-bed goal to end a housing crisis that has persisted for almost a decade.

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Adjmi’s team situated the mixed-use development, which offers 11,500 square feet of ground-level retail space to non-related dorm establishments like a bookstore and fitness center that help fund its maintenance and scholarships for students, in a prime gateway location adjacent to the western edge of campus.

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Morris Adjmi completes stepped Overline development in Atlanta with rustic brick facade

2023-10-03T14:05:00-04:00

Morris Adjmi Architects has completed a large residential scheme as part of the Overline development in Atlanta, Georgia. Situated in the city’s Old Fourth Ward, the new multifamily residence sits beside a soon-to-be-completed hotel and social club linked via a skybridge.

Image credit: Douglas Friedman

Seeking to offer a “fresh take on traditional multifamily,” the red brick complex holds 359 units within a stepped form, including multilevel apartments and maisonettes with private street-level entrances. At the base of the tower, a mixture of public and private spaces link the development with the adjacent diagrid hotel, currently under construction.

Image credit: Douglas Friedman

The design team’s vision for the residential tower was for a building that “pays homage to the nearby Ponce City Market and other original converted warehouses and factories found throughout the neighborhood.” The external material palette is define...

Meet urban revitalization experts Morris Adjmi Architects: Your Next Employer?

2022-08-01T11:40:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to New York-based ODA Architecture, this week’s edition of our Meet Your Next Employer series remains partly in NYC where we meet Morris Adjmi Architects (MA).

Established in New York City in 1997 by Morris Adjmi following his 13-year-long collaboration with Aldo Rossi, MA has since expanded from its NYC base to open a second office in New Orleans.

The firm describes itself as a “leader in the revitalization of post-industrial neighborhoods and historic districts,” exemplified by a broad portfolio spanning a renovated brick warehouse in Tribeca to a contemporary glass tower built on an existing art deco building along the High Line.

The firm now seeks to expand by advertising for several roles in NYC and New Orleans on the Archinect Job board. For candidates interested in applying for a role, or anybody interested in learning more about life as an architect, we spoke with the team at MA for a behind-the-scenes look at their studio.

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Lattice-topped spire designed by Morris Adjmi nears completion in New York City

2020-09-04T12:00:00-04:00

A 39-story residential tower designed by Morris Adjmi Architects is nearing the end of construction in New York City, where work on the city's rising crop of luxury residential towers continues unabated.

The 92,000-square-foot project is wrapped in an expressive gridded structural system that takes on a woven lattice motif along the tower's upper levels.

Containing 42 units, the project is described by the architects as rising on "thin, ribbon-like piers" that create "bays of brass-colored, metal-framed windows, before interlacing to form an elegant lattice crown whose pointed arches recall Gothic windows and Art Deco details."

Construction on the tower is nearing later stages as cladding wrapping the tower's structural piers has been almost completely installed while upper level units await final installation of exterior curtain wall glazing.

The NYC Construction Photo Instagram account highlights the recent progress in a series of photos posted earlier this week:

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Morris Adjmi Architects converts and expands historic textile building overlooking the High Line for office use

2020-08-13T13:31:00-04:00

The Warehouse, a seven-story 98,000-square-foot historic building expansion designed by New York-based Morris Adjmi Architects is officially ready for occupancy. Due to the pandemic, the developer will be hosting a series of virtual tours of The Warehouse to supplement a traditional launch event.

Rendering via Morris Adjmi Architects.

The building was formerly a four-story textile facility for the Haddad family's Carolina Manufacturing Company. James Haddad, Principal of Elijah Equities, the developer and owner of the building, said in a statement: "Being such an integral part of my childhood, it was important to me to preserve the original structure, have it flourish and appreciated by upcoming generations, but also to shepherd it into the modern era with a new aesthetically handsome addition."

5th Floor. Rendering via Morris Adjmi Architects.

7th Floor. Rendering via Morris Adjmi Architects.

Morris Adjmi Architects were tasked with reimagining the structure. The architects captured H...

REVEALED: Morris Adjmi’s Gothic-inspired condo tower coming to Nomad

2017-06-01T18:06:00-04:00

The site formerly held the ornate Romanesque Revival parish house of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, which, to the dismay of preservationists, was demolished in 2015 by Elkstein Development Group. However, Adjmi, known for his contextual sensitivity, will reference the church’s Gothic details, with six hefty columns that emphasize its 469-foot height and assume a diagrid pattern on the upper floors resembling the barrel-vaulted ceilings of a cathedral.

The latest in a slew of new residential developments in Nomad, Morris Adjmi's 30 East 31st Street will rise 40 stories and boast only 41 "ultra-luxury" condos, pointing to the fact that most units will be full-floor.