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The 3rd floor’s central spine connects offices across the Pearl Building’s large floor plate.

Alexander Severin Architectural Photography

Playful lighting design and vibrant yellow walls and ceilings enliven this interior corridor.

The design includes a material and color palette that is customized for each administrative entity’s suite, providing a sense of identity and wayfinding for all users.

Colors established within suites extend outward into the hallway, inviting users into the space and assisting with wayfinding across the large floorplate.

Within each suite, a grid of familiar columns punctuates the open space, serving as a distinctive aesthetic feature that defines the identity of the third floor.

Project • By Shakespeare Gordon Studio • Offices

City Tech Pearl Building

Adaptive reuse projects bring their share of complications, yet as aging systems are stripped away, long-quiet details often emerge with unexpected resonance. As Shakespeare Gordon Studio (SGS) began the design process for a gut renovation at New York City College of Technology (NYCCT), such discoveries began to reveal themselves. NYCCT, commonly referred to as City Tech, is in heart of what has become known as the “Brooklyn Tech Triangle,” an initiative spearheaded by various local economic development organizations that includes over 500 tech companies and 11 universities in and around downtown Brooklyn, all together comprising the largest innovation cluster outside of Manhattan. At the heart of the campus is the New Academic... More