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.

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 orientation from block to block.

“Eagle + West reflects the collective ambition — with Brookfield, Park Tower Group, and the design and construction teams — to create a platform for living connecting past and future, indoor and outdoor, urban life and waterfront,” said OMA partner Jason Long. “The two towers — complementary siblings — create an ever-shifting presence that engages both the neighborhood and the waterfront. It will be exciting to see how the project grows as people begin to make it their home.”

Inside, 745 residential units are spread across the site’s three buildings, including 30% affordable units. Amenities located throughout the complex to support the residential function include a co-working lounge, arcade, fitness center, and a pool lounge. Outside, two levels of outdoor terraces imitate the towers’ shifting forms, angled to cut in towards the courtyard and open to the waterfront. Above them, an amenity bridge looking over the Manhattan skyline links the two towers.

“The residential units were designed to maximize the stunning views, utilizing materials that evoke warmth and elegance, while providing a relaxing environment to come home to,” explained Beyer Blinder Belle partner Carlos Cardoso. “Every detail was carefully crafted to heighten the senses to another level of beauty.”

In addition to OMA and Beyer Blinder Belle, the design team for the towers included Marmol Radziner as interior and landscape architect and James Corner Field Operations for the waterfront landscape architecture.

News of the scheme’s completion comes weeks after it was announced that OMA and Cooper Robertson’s Buffalo AKG Museum will officially reopen in May 2023 following an extensive restoration project. Also in November, the firm unveiled a new urban commercial development in Tokyo.

In September, OMA was selected to design the University of Illinois’ new DPI innovation hub, while in August, their long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center officially opened in Taiwan.