Introducing a tower to Washington Heights, one of the northernmost Manhattan neighborhoods where most of the largely pre-war brick buildings top out at six stories, was always going to be difficult. It would take a sensitive hand to install a tower that respects the area’s history and mix of incomes and backgrounds without overshadowing it.
So it might come as a surprise that to hear that MVRDV’s first completed project in the U.S. is exactly that—given the firm’s reputation for nonstandard massings and novel material experiments. And it might come as an even bigger surprise to hear that apart from its multicolored glazed brick
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