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1200 Intrepid

PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES

1200 Intrepid

PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES

2016

CLIENT

Liberty Property Trust

TYPOLOGY

Work

SIZE M2/FT2

9,244 / 99,501

STATUS

COMPLETED

1200 Intrepid is a LEED Gold certified office building in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard neighborhood, shaped by the encounter between Robert Stern’s masterplan of rectangular city blocks and James Corner’s iconic, circular Central Green Park.

 

The building’s double curved, precast concrete façade bows inwards to create a generous urban canopy that responds to the ‘shock wave’ of the park’s circular running track, activity pods and planting vignettes – rippling outwards like rings in water to invade the building’s footprint. Visitors and employees can admire the mothballed ships sitting in the adjacent docks while embracing the Central Green Park.

“The ‘shock wave’ of the public space spreads like rings in the water, invading the footprint of the building to create a generous urban canopy at the entrance. The resultant double-curved façade echoes the complex yet rational geometries of maritime architecture. Inside, the elevator lobby forms an actual periscope, allowing people to admire the mothballed ships at the adjacent docks.”

Bjarke Ingels — Founder & Creative Director, BIG

1200 Intrepid’s front façade is created by the strategic stacking of High Concrete’s precast panels of varying sizes, figured in a basket-weave pattern to realize the top of the building’s straight edge. As the panels reach upward they also tilt outward, creating an inviting, cave-like canopy over the building’s front sidewalk. Each of the building’s other three sides stand straight up, maintaining the structure’s signature paneling.

Referencing the Navy Yard’s maritime history while providing much needed natural light, a functioning periscope penetrates the core of the building, projecting views of the Navy Yard basin into the center of the elevator lobby.

Bjarke Ingels Kai-Uwe Bergmann Thomas Christoffersen Beat Schenk Aran Coakley Michelle Stromsta Sören Grünert Taylor Hewett Deb Campbell Annette Miller Armen Menendian David Brown Douglass Alligood Janice Rim Natalie Kwee Ming Yie Terrence Lallak Thea Gasseholm Thomas Fagan Brandon Cook Peter Lee

AWARDS

PCI Harry H. Edwards Industry Advancement Award, 2016


PCI Best Office Building Award, 2016

Philadelphia Business Journal Best Real Estate Deal, 2016

COLLABORATORS

Environetics
In-Posse
LRSLA Studio
Pennoni
Re:Vision