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In the heart of Kansas City’s Crossroads District, the REVERB apartment tower will offer modern loft living in an established urban setting. The 14-story building will be composed of two levels of parking with 132 dwelling units above neighboring businesses and restaurants. At the base of the building, a unique landscape and 50-foot-long community table will create an experience complete with food truck parking, ride share pickup and a local deli — all designed to create a vibrant energy at the corner of 18th and Walnut.

The apartment units will have an open plan with as little walls as possible to provide maximum flexibility for furniture configurations. Concrete floors, a steel room divider, a living space that transforms into an open-aired room and floor-to-ceiling windows will create vertical panoramic views of the city. The functional and spatial development of the floor plans will set the tone for the building’s exterior aesthetics to create a holistic approach to the project.

Influenced by the District’s collection of brick infilled concrete frame buildings, the north and south facades will consist of a concrete structural frame with full glass infill, visually connected to its brick neighbor. By studying the immediate relationships of the surrounding buildings, we are creating shallow unit layouts to deliver a thinner profile and stack the building to the east along Walnut Street to maintain the existing city views of neighboring buildings.