Brooklyn

This new ultra-low energy use building designed to the rigorous Passive House standards will be a first for a NYC public school. The 146,000 SF project is a civic symbol of public education in rapidly transforming Downtown Brooklyn.  James Ewing / JBSA James Ewing / JBSA The new building houses two New York City public schools: PS 456 The Elizabeth Jennings School for Bold Explorers, a new dual English-Spanish primary school, and Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), the existing dual English-Arabic language public high school. The two schools share recreational and kitchen facilities while maintaining their distinct institutional identities with separate classrooms, libraries, stairwells, and terraces. James Ewing... More

These prefabricated townhouses are part of the Nehemiah program to build the largest affordable housing development for first-time homebuyers in New York City. More than 800 homes have been built on a 45-acre former landfill site in east Brooklyn, planned around a vibrant community-oriented streetscape and neighborhood. Individual modular units were constructed in a nearby factory and trucked to the site where they were joined together into two-, three- and four-story houses. To create visual interest and distinct identities, multiple facade types were designed, each of which could be clad in one of a dozen different colors of siding. Stoops line the street leading to a raised front door in a modern interpretation of traditional Brooklyn t... More

The 26-story luxury rental building situated at the nexus of two of Brooklyn's hottest neighborhoods, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Flatbush, features a facade with a bold play between precast and glass curtain wall. The undulating geometry of the glass curtain wall façade scales down the mass of the building, allowing for each apartment to have a unique view of the skyline. Over 50,000 square feet of amenity space includes a fitness center, sauna/steam room, business center, game room, golf simulator, two residential lounges, indoor swimming pool and hot tub, dog run, co-working lounge, half basketball court, children’s playroom and rooftop outdoor pool. More

535 Carlton is designed to address the issue of sustainable, affordable housing in New York City. Situated at the corner of Dean Street and Carlton Avenue in Brooklyn, the adjacent streetscape is a place of masonry, textures, light and shadow, and dappled sunlight across sidewalks. The holistic design translates bricks and mortar into a building that creates an extension of the vibrant surrounding neighborhood of Prospect Heights.The massing is articulated as a careful composition of masonry and expansive windowed volumes that gradually set back from a 60’ high streetwall on Dean. Through a series of terraces, it creates a transition from the sidewalk and pedestrian scale of Prospect Heights to an appropriate “bookend” framing the new, publ... More

City Point, a 1.6 million square foot complex of retail, office, entertainment and high-rise residential buildings in Downtown Brooklyn has become a catalyst for a more vibrant, more diverse urban community. At the heart of Downtown Brooklyn’s historical entertainment and shopping district, City Point is directly adjacent to Albee Square, the historical 1908 Dime Savings Bank and the planned Willoughby Square Park. The unique site sits at the collision of several Brooklyn street grids and its edges connect with a varied collection of neighborhoods and urban uses, including a high-rise corridor of apartment buildings rising along Flatbush Avenue, a large public housing community, a commercial office district, a historical and vibrant retail... More