Crosstown Concourse / Looney Ricks Kiss + DIALOG

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Crosstown Concourse / Looney Ricks Kiss + DIALOG - Exterior Photography, Windows, Cityscape
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Text description provided by the architects. Crosstown Concourse is the metamorphosis of urban blight into a vibrant community. It is the rebirth of not just a building, but an entire neighborhood. Though initially conceived as a home for a small start-up arts organization, with plans to organically revive the structure over decades, the project evolved into a 1.3- million-square-foot “vertical urban village.” Rooted in historical context and flourishing on the ideals of common purpose, social transformation, and inclusivity, the building has achieved full occupancy in less than one year.

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Crosstown Concourse / Looney Ricks Kiss + DIALOG - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
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Constructed as a Sears Distribution Center in 1927, the building grew into a major economic engine. However, by 1983 it sat abandoned, indicative of the modern trend of disposability and urban disinvestment. Through a meticulous and collaborative design process, the redevelopment has rekindled the building, as well as reinstated a sense of civic pride. The blend of retail, restaurants, fitness, health, educational and professional spaces, in addition to market-rate housing, works in unison to create a new community paradigm.

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Crosstown Concourse / Looney Ricks Kiss + DIALOG - Interior Photography, Stairs, Windows
© Chad Mellon

A series of cost conscious architectural extractions and insertions have produced a vibrant new community that encourages discovery. Infused with the spirit of the building’s historic distribution system, seven new atria and their corresponding street-like corridors, transport natural light into public spaces. These reimagined spaces inspire participation and collaboration, catalyzing a community movement that challenges possibility.

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Address:1350 Concourse Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104, United States

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Cite: "Crosstown Concourse / Looney Ricks Kiss + DIALOG" 20 Mar 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/890934/crosstown-concourse-looney-ricks-kiss> ISSN 0719-8884

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孟菲斯'垂直城市村庄',复兴城市中心 / Looney Ricks Kiss + DIALOG

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