Greenpoint lies at the northernmost tip of Brooklyn where Newtown Creek meets the East River. The neighborhood sometimes called “Little Poland” has historically consisted of low-rise townhouses with industry at its waterfront edges. The industrial border, which included shipbuilding, rope-making, and more toxic activities such as petroleum refinement, cut the neighborhood off from the East River.
Project Architects: Yusef Ali Dennis, Christine Yoon
Team: Remy Bertin, Jingyi Bi, Sam Biroscak, Titouan Chapouly, Ken Chongsuwat, Marie-Claude Fares, Yashar Ghasemkhani, Anders Grinde, Wesley LeForce, Chong Ying Pai, Nathan Petty, Andres Rabano, Laylee Salek, Alan Song, Wo Hong Wu, Soojung Yoo, Steven Young, Juan Pablo Zepeda
Executive Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP
A trailblazing boutique condominium in Brooklyn’s historic Red Hook neighborhood, The Huntington introduces a new luxury lifestyle to the area that thoughtfully complements the surrounding community and aesthetics. The Huntington’s brick and metal exterior maintains a modern, timeless residential feel while simultaneously paying homage to Red Hook’s industrial roots, with windows reminiscent of warehouses. Elegantly landscaped with an unpretentious façade, the design is tranquil, human-scaled, and evokes a traditional townhouse style.
Michael K. Chen Architecture (MKCA) has completed the gut renovation and interior design of a 3600-square-foot landmarked brownstone in Clinton Hill for a young couple: a tech VC investor and a public-school art teacher and artist, who brought a bold sense of color and quirky collection of art and design to the project. Originally built in 1895, the house had been abandoned for over 20 years, requiring MKCA to strike a balance between stabilizing the building and recapturing its faded but undeniably spectacular grandeur, all while designing a new home in an adventurous, innovative manner.
“There is an appealing aesthetic tension in the house between the historic elements and the sleeker additions that reflects what it is to occupy and care for these historic houses in a modern way,” says Michael K. Chen, the NYC-based firm’s founder and principal.
HWKN’s Bushwick Generator is a new office campus that embodies the neighborhood’s energy and tradition of disruptive entrepreneurship outside and in. With it, Matthias Hollwich and his team at HWKN designed a bold new building that gives shape to the area’s creative spirit and relentless drive, offering a hub for the innovative companies that call Brooklyn home.
TRIANGLE STACK #2 is designed for the Brooklyn Museum to support an urban-scale mural by the artist JR, and create an instant public space, a 60-foot tall triangular courtyard open to the city and the sky.
At The Rheingold the streetscape is brought all the way up to the exterior and creates an inhabited facade on all four sides of the block. The building invites residents into an environment of accessibility and connectivity, one that celebrates user experience and champions shared perspective. Encapsulating one full block, this seven-story, mixed-use building contains inner and outer courtyards, and most notably an expansive and distinctive green rooftop. The sloping angles create a more organic terrain with longer sun exposure for the courtyards and allow for direct horizontal connections from the upper four floors. In this way, living space extends beyond each apartment’s four walls with ample outdoor space. Making full use of this often-neglected available space, the design was created with the goal of providing residents many of the urban elements that the area is currently lacking. Nestled in the center will be an interior courtyard that serves as a visual and physical connector, providing an additional 19,000 square feet of outdoor recreational space. On the roof, a 100’ truss bridges between the open courtyard, creating a view deck with incomparable views to Manhattan.
On an architecturally unique block in south Williamsburg Brooklyn, STUDIOSC was commissioned for the design of a ground up 4 story townhouse. Taking its cues from the intersecting views and existing context the facade presents a strong presence upon approach. Clean interiors throughout all the floors allow for a seamless programming of the home as well as moments of bold statements, such as the master bathroom brick screen, elegant kitchen opening to a well-appointed yard, and the dramatic 2nd floor balcony space that seamlessly integrates interior and exterior. Working together with the developer, the idea was to create a home that tied it’s context and environment into the design methods at every opportunity.
Three buildings, designed to appear as a singular structure, share a monolithic facade constructed of corrugated panel on Marcy Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York. The height of the unifying facade, rising to sixty feet, negotiates the surrounding structures; the elevated Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, adjacent brownstones, and the nearby industrial buildings of Williamsburg.
The client's existing space housed an expansive book collection cluttering both living and leisure spaces. We embraced this as a design opportunity, how to elegantly incorporate the collection into the loft without it being an overwhelming omnipresent element in the space. The design used the library as an infrastructure to organize the existing space, wrapping its perimeter with custom designed shelving set at a 45 degree angle. The angle allows the book collection to be viewed from one direction and in the other, provides three dimensional wall, which animates as natural light changes throughout the day. The diagonal created by the shelves provides a motif extended throughout the space with custom tile work and wood flooring.
The Cumberland Townhouse is located on a park block in the neighborhood of Fort Greene in Brooklyn, NY. The house was in a dilapidated state when the owner’s purchased the building; the rear wall was falling down and water had been entering the building for several years.
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