Long Beach

This is a parcel within a much larger waterfront master plan development. This parcel has 94,000 sq.m. (1.01M sq.ft.) of residential apartments that are situated on top of a retail mall podium (by others). Our team’s scope was to develop the overall massing and circulation scheme for the entire parcel in coordination with the mall designers. We also developed the street presence and focused on the design of the residential towers. The design of the residential towers and the overall parcel pursues a nautical concept, taking its inspiration from the site's location and history as a commercial maritime site. Currently under construction. Work performed while with Perkins Eastman Architects.

This was a tightly collaborative effort between our New York and Shanghai teams and with the mall designers in Hong Kong. My responsibility was developing the tower massing and program distribution, iterating on the tower facade designs, coordinating site access and circulation, coordinating with the mall designers, overseeing daily team efforts between New York and Shanghai teams, and producing design deliverable packages.

The residential towers which we are responsible for sit sit atop a shopping mall and are oriented to take optimal advantage of long river views while creating a generous interior urban courtyard. There is a residential arrival courtyard in the center of the scheme and the mall's roof terraces up around it creating a series of stepped rooftop gardens that become the private residential amenities (mall design is by others).

The unit plans are optimized for maximized panoramic views. The nautical concept is expressed as tightly controlled curves and lines that stretch across the height of the towers. The material palette will be evocative of ships which will also work well with the commercial character of the mall below.

The project introduces a number of innovative design strategies to the Chinese housing typology.