Architecture studios Handel Architects and HWKN have completed the Journal Squared development in New Jersey, USA, which contains three skyscrapers with gridded facades. Located in Jersey City, the development stretches out over 213,676 square metres (2.3 million square feet) and contains three residential skyscrapers that vary in height and have a series of protruding rectangular volumes on their facades.
Following the first tower’s completion in 2016, the project has now wrapped with the completion of the third and final 59-storey skyscraper. The skyscraper forms sit clustered together, joined by a shared eight-storey podium at the base. The highest of the towers reaches 72 storeys, while the other sits at 53 storeys. The tallest rises 741 feet (225 meters).
The development sits behind the Journal Square PATH train station. The teams noted that transforming the surrounding “transit hub” was an important factor in the development’s overall design.”Witnessing our vision materialise after a decade, and realising the potency of our chosen design – one that blends timeless aesthetics with a socially activated base – is profoundly exhilarating,” said HWKN founding principal Matthias Hollwich. “The transformation from a transit hub to a thriving urban community is what Journal Squared was always meant to achieve.”
