ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS
This project showcases the potential that often lies hidden in an old building. Once a maze of disconnected rooms that were dark, crowded, and overused, this elegant renovation reveals the building’ s inherent qualities to make bright, colorful, and contemporary spaces, even in a building that is more than century old. The large, open floor plans of this ex-factory lent themselves to expansive layouts, curtain walls allowed large windows to spread light throughout office suites, and hefty structural columns turned from a design constraint into a consistent visual motif.
As the newly coined Tech Triangle continues to expand its influence across downtown Brooklyn’ s built environment, architects and developers should turn their attention to adapting the neighborhood’ s existing building stock: historic buildings with structural capabilities for bright, expansive, and contemporary spaces.
Technical sheet Official Project Name: City Tech Pearl Building Location: Brooklyn, New York Client: New York City College of Technology,( NYCCT), Dormitory Authority of the State of New York( DASNY) Architect: Shakespeare Gordon Studio Consultants:
Loring Consulting Engineers LERA Consulting Structural Engineers Matrix New World Engineering VJ Associates J Callahan Consulting Square Footage / units: 17,000 sf Project Completion Date: 2025 Photographer: Alexander Severin Architectural Photography www. sg. studio
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