Living with a loft atmosphere, open kitchen-living room, floor-to-ceiling windows, colorful communal rooms with pool and table tennis, a fitness room, a spa area for a relaxing sauna, and a large pool on the roof with a view of the New York skyline The Smile has everything you could want. Thesis of the day: Maybe has BIG (Copenhagen, New York) in the Harlem district in the north of New York not just a new luxury apartment block, but a hipster dream cast in concrete, symbolically realizing the architecture for the lifestyle of a generation.
The starting point is a rectangular building plot on 126th Street, adjacent to the south of a flat existing building with commercial use on 125th Street (aka Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd). The former is built on with a disc, on the latter a transverse structure is placed, creating a T-shaped floor plan. Along 126th Street, the building’s facade slopes gently inward as it rises upwards. This curve gives the name to the emoji-style laugh: (at least as far as you look at the building from a bird’s or drone’s perspective.
Inside, in addition to the 233 residential units, there is an atrium-like coworking space naturally illuminated by high skylights, as well as all kinds of amenities that are usually expected in luxury hotels. The design focuses on minimalism, raw concrete in combination with high-quality materials as well as targeted accents: the entrances are tiled with lively splashes of color made of concrete, which are inspired by the street paintings of the district and offer a unique, lively reception in the building, states the press release and This cleverly alludes to the urban structure, which is traditionally characterized by Afro-American culture, activism and rather lower income.
In its pure form, all of this is both everyday and irritating that The Smile can actually only be rated as the culmination and end point of an architectural language of form. It is exciting to see what Bjarke Ingels Group has in store for next. (stu)
Photos: Pernille and Thomas Foliage
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