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Danish architect 3XN has won a competition to design 201 E Pratt Street, a building that will act as a bridge between the city of Baltimore and its port.
The stepped retail building is designed to resemble a ship’s sail and will form part of the Harborplace development, masterplanned by Gensler for MCB Real Estate.
The interior will contain shops, and the swooping roof will be a public landscape, offering visitors views of the harbour.
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The edges of the building’s curved terraces are tuned to take advantage of cooling breezes, and 3XN says the building can act as a community refuge during extreme heat and poor air quality events.
Kim Herforth Nielsen, 3XN’s founder, said: “For most of my life, Copenhagen’s waterfront was a working harbour – a place of industry, not somewhere where people would hang out, relax, or enjoy their city. The transformation of the harbour into a place for people has transformed the whole city as well, not changing Copenhagen but helping to emphasise what was already special about it.
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“We see this project in Baltimore’s Inner Harbour as a way to do the same thing – to give people a place to be together and to celebrate their city.”
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