City Tech is an institution committed to research and providing access to technological education and serving a diverse urban population. Perkins Eastman was hired to design a new academic complex on the school’s downtown-Brooklyn campus that enhances the image of City Tech and improves the surrounding neighborhood. The design team created a sustainable, vibrant space where science, health, and entertainment technologies can collaborate and co-exist. Mainly serving the college’s health programs, the new building contains classrooms, laboratories, clinics, and support areas as well as a massive theater and gymnasium.

When designing the building, the team focused on emphasizing City Tech’s value on developing applied skills and encouraging an understanding of technology’s social context to foster an atmosphere of inclusion and collaboration. Creating a new approach to design for inter-professional education and interdisciplinary discovery, the team’s vision comes to life as an important component of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle, the city’s largest area of tech and innovation activity outside of Manhattan.

City Tech also finishes the Perkins Eastman master plan and urban design for the central core of this innovation and technology hub that has contributed to the renewal of downtown Brooklyn.