DXA Studio brings faceted concrete housing towers to Chelsea

A pair of identical 20-story residential towers designed by DXA Studio are on the rise in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. The twin towers feature a contextual facade designs highlighted by serial punched windows and building setbacks that align the towers' height to those of the surrounding structures. The upperlevel setbacks for the tower break from the street wall to make space for planted roof terraces. Instead of featuring brick facades like those surrounding buildings, however, the new structures are wrapped in faceted precast architectural concrete panels. The repeating concrete panels are either black or white, depending on the tower, and offer subtle changes in surface geometry that catch the sun and create shadows to create stark geometric patterns. The buildings will offer 112 apartments and 87 condominiums as well as 20,000 square feet of commercial spaces. New York YIMBY reports that exterior construction on the project is nearly complete, with almost all of the co...