Here, belatedly, are the five images OMA designed for 111, a mixed-use tower on the Jersey City waterfront in the United States.
The 52-story tower consists of three floors with living and working spaces for artists, a hotel, condominiums and more apartments. The three stacked volumes are placed at 90 degrees to each other.
The project was announced at the end of February.
The following is an OMA press release about the program:
OMA Designs Mixed-Use Tower
Jersey City's Arts District
(JERSEY CITY, February 26, 2007) Jersey City, The Athena Group and BLDG Management Co., Inc. announced today that The Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been commissioned to design a mixed-use development in Jersey City's thriving Waterfront Development, located at 111 First Street.
The 1.2 million-square-foot development, which includes condominiums, public amenities and a hotel, artist work and on-site studios, galleries, retail, and parking, will serve as a beacon for the area's future development as Jersey City's Arts District.
Each component of the project is clustered in separate blocks: a cube of artist work, on-site studios and galleries, a floorplate combining hotel rooms and apartments, and a wider floorplate housing deeper apartments.
The resulting volumes are vertically stacked in a planned manner to form a 52-story tower. This stacking maintains the independence of each block, optimizes the potential views of the site, and establishes a dynamic relationship between the building and its surroundings: a traditional spectacle.
The alternating orientations of each block create a series of open spaces at their intersections: a public terrace at 111 First Street on the 5th floor, a hotel restaurant and spa terrace on the 17th floor, and two shared residential terraces on the 36th floor.
Next to each terrace is a public space that activates the terrace during the day (gallery, spa, gym, pool, restaurant) and at night (cabaret, bar, restaurant, residential lounge).
The 111 First Street public terrace, with direct street access, will serve as a virtual link between the planned Powerhouse Entertainment Center and the sculpture garden to the north of the site.
The vertical and horizontal density of public activity will energize the surrounding area as a cultural center for Jersey City.
OMA*AMO New York will be responsible for the project, and the studio is also currently building the new Milstein Hall for Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
The project is led by OMA partner Rem Koolhaas and OMA*AMO New York director Shohei Shigematsu. Their previous collaborations include the design of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing, the OMA design for the Whitney Museum in New York, and most recently the Shenzhen Stock Exchange headquarters in Shenzhen, China, and Milstein Hall at Cornell University.
111 First Street
Project: 111 First Street
Status: Commission
Client: BLDG Management Co. Inc. and Athena Group, LLC
Location: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Location: City block adjacent to old power station
Project: 1.2 million gross square feet: 415,000 square feet of condominiums, 210,000 square feet of hotel and amenities, 160,000 square feet of artists' work/live studios, 19,000 square feet of galleries, 87,000 square feet of retail, and 240,000 square feet of parking
Building height: 592 feet
OMA*AMO New York
Managing Partner: Rem Koolhaas
Principal: Shohei Shigematsu
Team: Noah Shepherd, Christin Svensson, Margaret Arbanas, Kengo Skorick, Alasdair Graham & Torsten Schroeder, Chun Yue Chiu, Duncan Flemington, Martin Schliefer, Tomek Bartczak, Javier Munoz, Ian Robertson Schliefer, Tomek Bartczak, Javier Munoz, Ian Robertson
Structure: WSP Cantor Seinuk Structural Engineer
