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Old Posted Jun 10, 2015, 4:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Walch View Post
8 House by Bjarke Engles Group of Denmark/New York
A little OT, but I recently went to the Bjarke Ingels exhibition at the National Building Museum in DC. Pretty much every project was presented in the same way: here is a what a conventional architect would do; and here is what we did [subtext - aren't we clever]. As cool as their stuff can be it grew a tiresome after a while.

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Originally Posted by Encolpius View Post
they're fitting nearly 1,000 residential units plus retail into a very irregular site, without a tower. (Or 1125 units, with a stubby tower, depending). Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is significantly more residential than Phase I of the AAT development and roughly equivalent to what's proposed for Phase II.
You are correct, although AAT Phase I is three blocks and Phase II is four blocks, with a giant square in the middle. This site is five blocks and not that irregularly shaped.
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