These are examples of private projects that provide public open spaces:
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| Source: archdaily.com |
Lever House, New York City, New York, USA, 1952 designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The design of the Lever House offsets the tall office tower from the horizontal base. The horizontal base is lifted off of the ground plane by pilotis except for a small enclosed portion, providing a public plaza underneath and a threshold between the exterior and interior of the building. Here, the ground floor has space for displays, waiting visitors, an auditorium, and a demonstration kitchen. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: David McCloskey Dextrovert.com |
Fountain Place, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1986 designed by I. M. Pei and Partners
At the tower's base, half of the building volume is carved away up to a height of sixty feet, allowing the water garden with its ordered forest of bald cypress trees to flow through beneath. This eventful garden, designed by the landscape architect Dan Kiley, is the essential heart of Fountain Place. It gives the complex both its name and unique identity as an office development that transcends mere servitude as a 9 to 5 workplace.
Fountain Place has won wide recognition for the successful achievement of civic goals within a private development. The project was selected to represent the United States in a joint exhibition, "The Socially Responsible Environment,' staged simultaneously in New York and Moscow in 1991. -- architect's web site.
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| Source: Foster + Partners |
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters, Hong Kong, China, 1986 designed by Foster + Partners
A mirrored sunscoop reflects sunlight down through the atrium to the floor of a public plaza below a sheltered space that at weekends has become a lively picnic spot. From the plaza, escalators rise up to the main banking hall, which with its glass underbelly was conceived as a shop window for banking. -- architect's web site
Broadgate Exchange House, London, UK, 1990 designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
London’s Broadgate Exchange House has become an instant classic, one that exemplifies a principle fostered by SOM that virtually all of the world’s cities can find important new urban space. Here, the space was found by utilizing air rights and applying sophisticated engineering techniques to the design. -- architect's web site
A revolutionary development transforming derelict rail land into a thriving financial district employing 20,000. The creation of this new commercial precinct on 29 acres of land at Broadgate set a new standard for large-scale urban commercial development. The development included 12 new buildings, pedestrian routes, three new public squares including an ice rink and incorporated an impressive collection of public art. -- Stanhope
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Formosa 1140, West Hollywood, California, USA, 2008 designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
project emphasizes the central importance of shared open space for the residents and the community. Formosa takes what would be the internalized open space of the courtyard and moves it to the exterior of the building to create a park which occupies approximately one third (4,600 sf) of the project site.
Formosa 1140 contains within its own genetic code the imprint of a larger urban design that will offer some kind of public space back to the city and in so doing, distribute a patchwork of parks across Los Angeles’s formidable grid. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Pedro Pegenaute archdaily.com |
Iglesia San Jorge, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain, 2008 designed by Tabuenca & Leache
A large atrium acts as an exterior entrance hall, linking the 2 squares previously mentioned and creating an urban scenario for those people who simply pass through it, while at the same time, it serves as a meeting and gathering point for congregants just before they enter the temple. The atrium also connects the church to the parish centre, which contains the apartments for the priests on the top floor. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: stevenholl.com |
Horizontal Skyscraper - Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China, 2009 designed by Steven Holl Architects
The decision to float one large structure right under the 35-meter height limit, instead of several smaller structures each catering to a specific program, was inspired by the hope to create views over the lower developments of surrounding sites to the South China Sea, and to generate the largest possible green space open to the public on the ground level. ...The Vanke Center is a tsunami-proof 21st century hovering architecture that creates a porous micro-climate of freed landscape and is one of the first LEED platinum rated buildings in Southern China. -- Steven Holl Architects.
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| Source: Koichi Torimura archdaily.com |
Yokohama Apartment, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan designed by ON design partners
Yokohama apartment is a residential complex consisting of semi public courtyard canopied by four one-room units for young artists. The semi public courtyard is a place for exhibition and work. -- ArchDaily
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