A developer will proceed with plans to build an apartment building with nearly 80 units on Clipper Road in Woodberry, but will preserve a pair of historic 1840s stone mill houses as part of the design, according to an architect working on the project.
The design that CLD Partners is now moving forward with entails “integrating the structures within the building itself,” said Kuo Pao Lian, co-founder and principal of PI.KL Studio, which CLD has contracted for the project, in an interview Thursday. The plan is to turn them into amenities or retail.
CLD and PI.KL presented several designs to the Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel (UDAAP) at a hearing this morning, one of which would have “set the [apartments] back almost east of the buildings, as much as possible,” and another that would have razed both of the structures while reincorporating the leftover stone into the new design, Lian said. The third option, shown above, preserves the homes, striking “a balance between the two extremes.”
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