Internationally Recognized Design Team Space Copenhagen Tapped to Capture Distinctively Scandinavian Aesthetic for RESA’s Common Areas and Penthouse
Skanska, a leading global development and construction firm, today announced its partnership with Space Copenhagen as it unveiled the uniquely Scandinavian interior designs for RESA, its 12-story, 326-unit luxury apartment building in Washington, D.C.’s rapidly developing NoMa neighborhood.
A design studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Space Copenhagen is renowned for its hospitality work including hotels, museums and restaurants, such as Restaurant NOMA in Copenhagen, chosen as the world’s best restaurant four times in the past decade. Following their award-winning interior design for 11 Howard Hotel in New York City, this partnership marks the first time the firm has designed a multifamily project in the United States.
“RESA’s interiors will reflect the comfortable and accessible lifestyle that the NoMa community embodies along with the modern luxuries and inviting environments urban dwellers desire. With Space Copenhagen, we will deliver a combination of high-end design and approachable hospitality that is virtually impossible to find anywhere else in the District,” said Mark Carroll, executive vice president for Skanska’s development operations in the Greater Washington, D.C. area.
To create warm and engaging spaces for the common areas within the apartment building, Skanska selected the Space Copenhagen team to design the lobby and reception area, the residential corridors and the rooftop penthouse of RESA. This will include furniture and lighting fixtures from Space Copenhagen’s curated collection of modern designs, which feature organic materials, such as wood, leather and wool, textile and stone, in warm and earthy colors.
Click here for a first look at the Scandinavian-styled interiors at RESA.
“We pride ourselves on bringing a sincere, personal vision to our projects,” say Space Copenhagen founders Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou. “In this case, our first multifamily venture in the U.S., that means offering the residents of RESA an aesthetic that will be truly different than anything found in Washington, D.C. or elsewhere in the United States. You can frame our approach as slow aesthetic; we put great emphasis on trusting materiality, how materials age with grace while feeling ever contemporary and relevant.”
RESA, the Swedish word for journey, will offer 326 unique multifamily apartments, more than 10,000 square feet of resident amenities and 7,000 square feet of retail. It is located at 22 M Street, NE between North Capitol and First Streets, NE, one and one-half blocks from a Metro station, and within walking distance to Union Station and Union Market. It is within easy reach of 11 Metrobus lines, two D.C. Circulator lines and eight Capital Bikeshare locations.
RESA is part of Skanska’s Tyber Place project, a planned three-building, mixed-use development, which will feature restaurants, retail and an open-air courtyard.
Skanska’s other current real estate developments in the greater Washington area include: 2112 Penn, an 11-story, 230,000-square-foot office building with approximately 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail; and 99M, a 234,000-square-foot, Class-A office building, located in the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. Skanska recently acquired a site at Scotts Run to develop a high-density, multifamily project in Tysons, VA. Skanska also developed the 130,000 square-foot office building 1776 Wilson Blvd, Arlington’s first LEED Platinum building, which Skanska sold in 2014, and 733 10th and G, a 171,000 square-foot office, which Skanska sold in 2012.
In the Greater Washington area, Skanska built the First Street Tunnel and is building the headquarters facility for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (D.C. Water). The firm is also responsible for the reconstruction of the 11th Street Bridge and adjacent interchanges, infrastructure that helped spur new development such as 99M in the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood.
For further information please contact:
Beth Miller, Skanska, 917 438 4523, beth.miller@skanska.com
Mittie Rooney, for Skanska, 301 602 8709, mrooney@axcomgroup.com
This and previous releases can also be found at www.usa.skanska.com.
About Skanska USA
Skanska USA is one of the largest, most financially sound construction and development companies in the U.S., serving a broad range of clients including those in transportation, power, industrial, water/wastewater, healthcare, education, sports, data centers, government, aviation, life sciences and commercial. Headquartered in New York with offices in 29 metro areas, we have nearly 11,000 employees committed to being leaders in safety, project execution, sustainability, ethics and people development. In 2017, our work in building construction, civil and power/industrial construction, commercial development and infrastructure development (public-private partnerships) generated $7.3 billion in revenue. Global revenue of parent company Skanska AB, headquartered in Stockholm and listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, totaled $18.8 billion in 2017. Skanska shares are publicly traded in the U.S. on the OTC market under the symbol SKBSY through a Level I American Depository Receipt program.
About Space Copenhagen
Established in 2005 by Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou, Space Copenhagen works across multiple disciplines from furniture, lighting and refined objects, to art installations and art direction, to interior design for private homes, hotels and restaurants all over the world.
While the studio’s intuitive approach embodies designs that are distinctively shaped by the given circumstances and needs, its work boasts clear signatures; natural materials, subdued colors, dramatic clarity, meticulous craft. It is a slow aesthetic that places the material at the fore, trusting its innate qualities and longevity. The result is a visual language that makes every choice seem like it’s always belonged exactly where it is; poetic modernism.
In addition to their roster of high-end interiors, Space Copenhagen has partnered with some of the world’s leading manufacturers and designed more than 50 iconic furniture pieces for Stellarworks, GUBI, Georg Jensen, Fredericia Furniture, &tradition and Mater.
