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Employer: urban office architecture (UOA)
Architecture: CARLO ENZO
Render by: MORTEZA RAMEZANI
Location: New York

The architectural vision for the mandarin oriental high rise explores the idea of a complete merging of architecture, the city, the river, and the urban landscape. The essential spatial concept of a morphing floor plan allows the building structure to reveal a “dancing” form extending from the ground to the sky. Reminiscent of a traditional Asian vase, the building form transforms as it rises vertically, appearing as a constantly morphing shape according to the angle of view. While accommodating for the variety of programmatic needs the floor plates change at all levels making for a unique and distinguished environment for each occupant. As if open to the elements and the outside air, the experience of each inhabitant is that of “living in the sky”. From a distance, the building skin changes according to seasonal and weather conditions, exposing or concealing its inner skeleton and floor plates evoking thus an ever-transforming vertical crystalline object.