| Pavilion Apartments | |
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| General information | |
| Type | 3 High rise apartment buildings |
| Location | 108-136 Martin Luther King Junior Blvd, Newark, NJ |
| Coordinates | 40°45′02″N 74°10′47″W / 40.75056°N 74.17972°W |
| Construction started | 1958 |
| Opening | 1960 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 61.27 m (201.0 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 22 |
| Floor area | ~14,124 sq ft (1,312.2 m2) (214 by 66 ft or 65 by 20 m) |
| Lifts/elevators | 3 (each) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Mies van der Rohe |
| Developer | Herbert Greenwald |
| Other information | |
| Number of units | 340 (each) |
| Website | |
| rentpavilion.com | |
| References | |
| [1][2] | |
| Colonnade Apartments | |
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 Colonnade Facade | |
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| General information | |
| Type | High rise apartment |
| Location | 25-51 Clifton Avenue, Newark, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 40°45′02″N 74°10′47″W / 40.75056°N 74.17972°W |
| Construction started | 1958 |
| Opening | 1960 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 59.13 m (194.0 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 21 |
| Floor area | ~29,436 square feet (446 feet by 66 feet) |
| Lifts/elevators | 6 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Mies van der Rohe |
| Developer | Herbert Greenwald |
| Other information | |
| Number of units | 560 |
| References | |
| [3] | |
The Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments are three highrise apartment buildings in Newark, New Jersey. The Pavilion Apartments are located at 108-136 Martin Luther King Junior Blvd. and the Colonnade Apartments at 25-51 Clifton Avenue in the overlapping neighborhoods known as Seventh Avenue and Lower Broadway.
The 22-story towers were designed in the International Style by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1960, originally known as Colonnade Park.[4][5][6][7] The towers are built in the modernist style of "towers in the park," which advocated dense high-rise housing complexes set within parks and open spaces (which has since fallen out of fashion in favor of mixed-use and low-rise development). Soon after completing Manhattan's Seagram Building, Mies designed the three towers near Branch Brook Park, north of Downtown Newark and adjacent University Heights and Interstate 280.[8]
Privately owned, the buildings were intended to bring middle-income families to the area of the Christopher Columbus Homes — a cluster of low-income apartment buildings, or public housing projects, which were eventually demolished.[9][10] The Pavilion Apartments were sold in April 2018.
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- ^ Bernstein, Fred (March 14, 2006). "Second Look: Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments by Mies van der Rohe, 1960". Arch News Now. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
- ^ Bernstein, Fred A. (May 6, 2006). "An Artist/Architect's Trophy Address: A Glass Box by Mies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
- ^ "High Street/MLK Boulevard: Part II". Newark History.com. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
- ^ "Glass and Aluminum Structure Designed by Mies van der Rohe; House in Newark Is Ultra-Modern". The New York Times. September 18, 1960. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
- ^ Levy, Clifford J. (Mar 7, 1994). "4 High-Rises Torn Down by Newark". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
- ^ Depalma, Anthony (3 May 1987). "Starting Over to House Newark's Poor" – via NYTimes.com.