SWA/Balsley are designing Highline Plaza at Schuylkill Yards, a mixed-use redevelopment adjacent to
Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. The architects said the design for the new public plaza will transform
an underutilised surface parking lot into “a vibrant landscape of connection.” Part of a master plan to
create a new mixed-used district, the half-acre plaza will be programmed with a variety of elements
including outdoor dining, pop-up retail, performances, and other public gatherings. The design is inspired
by the site’s rail legacy and industrial heritage, with a “dynamic ground plane” mimicking the geometries
of a railyard and interpretive art installations. Highline Plaza is part of Schuylkill Yards’ first phase, which
is scheduled to begin construction in 2020.
HIGHLINE PLAZA, NEW YORK
SWA/BALSLEY
Danish architecture firm COBE have designed a new multi-purpose building for sports brand Adidas for
their corporate headquarters in Germany. The new building, named Halftime, totals 15,500 m^2. As well
as a canteen for all HQ employees, the building contains meeting rooms, a conference centre and a
showroom, where the company’s brand ambassadors can stop by to see the latest new designs,
collections and ideas. The project features a 8,650-square-metre rhomboid roof structure consisting of V-
shaped concrete beams and covered in glass. In fact, a third of the roof consists of skylights, which
allows daylight to enter the building throughout. The concrete beams, each 16 metres long and weighing
28 tonnes, add up to a total length of 3.2 kilometres.
HALFTIME, GERMANY
COBE
Jaeger Kahlen Partner is one of the joint winners
at the international competition for Bao’An Bay
Industrial Investment Tower in Shenzhen, China.
The office building is a set of “shifting volumes”
that break the tower into a series of terraced
stacked blocks. The tower is located in a
developing neighbourhood that allows access to
Shenzhen Bao’An International Airport and the
cities along the Pearl River Delta. The floors of
each building volume are connected by spiral
staircases, forming “vertically cohesive work
environments.” On this project, Jaeger Kahlen
Partner worked with Transsolar KlimaEngineering
to develop and incorporate several practical and
efficient sustainability techniques into the design.BAO’AN BAY TOWER, CHINA
JAEGER KAHLEN PARTNER© Rasmus Hjortshoj© SWA/Balsley© Jean-Francois Goyette31ADF FEBRUARY 2020 WWW.ARCHITECTSDATAFILE.CO.UK
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