OMA / Reinier de Graaf creator architects. software, multimedia |d| urbanNext November 19, 2018 monographic eng

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502 words. The Norra Tornen project started with two inherited building envelopes, the remains of a cancelled project initiated by the former city architect Aleksander Wolodarski. Each a kind of ‘crescendo’ composition of different heights – neither slab nor tower – prohibit the unfolding of an uncompromised typology. Conversely, the opted program, apartments with an emphasis on large outdoor spaces, prevented too literal a translation of the envelopes into architectural form. High Density, OMA, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms Active Public Spaces, Adaptive reuse, Architecture, City, Collective housing, Colour, Concrete, Construction, Density, Exploring Housing, Façade, High-rise, Housing, low cost, Monument, Prefabrication, Project, Refurbishment, Residential, Stockholm, Sweden, Tower Photography: Laurian Ghinitoiu and Ossip van Duivenbode Architecture Project Stockholm, Sweden Sweden 2575-5374 https://urbannext.net/norra-tornen/ https://urbannext.net/norra-tornen/ ES-BaAUN 221102 20230221105341.0 eng