There is a lot of commercial and new residential property in DT BKLYN: the ‘shadow inventory’ is kept-in-the-dark - so no one knows how much excess is currently on the market.
NYC is rebound from C19 for sure, and I believe a very robust market will soon return. However, would this project vigorously more forward given the current glut in the market. I don’t see this moving forward any time soon: please correct me if you know otherwise.
What is that big, low, dark building in the foreground and is there a chance it will be redeveloped eventually?
I have no idea.
Best I can get it’s known as the Pharmacy Building.
https://www.liu.edu/Pharmacy/Spotlight-On/Pharmacy-History
Scroll down to 1976. I think it’s part of Long Island Uni.
that’s probably my favorite building in downtown Brooklyn next to 9 deKalb. Black structural steel is great.
I’ve been waiting to see up-close renders of this one. It looks really nice. I like the textured facade and the massing.
Brooklyn gets all the mess…well Long Island City is worse.
Huh.
That looks really nice up close.
But from a distance, the facade is too repetitive and monolithic. It needs something else to break up the pattern and give it more texture on the larger scale.
I think the flat, reflective glass surfaces do a good job of breaking up the relentless orthogonality of the rest of the facade. Judging from the distance render in the YIMBY article Berzerk linked a few posts up, the two facade treatments will contrast very nicely in both reflectivity and texture. Downtown Brooklyn has unfortunately seen some dire architecture recently, but I think this, 9 DeKalb, and the Jeanne Gang tower are very nice.
I really like how the sills are copper? Compared to the textured facade, that should help create a dynamic look during different times of the day.
I wish it was at least 100ft taller.
In my world view - aesthetically speaking - there are only 3 levels of relative merit in terms of Architectural Design: good, better, and best. The nice, nicer and nicest terms serve quite well too. This one comes in solidly as a NICER than most, a BETTER architectural design than most. There is the occasional rare exception - (not nice) or (CaCa) - but those statistical outliers are too few to mention.
This is surely a pleasing work of Architecture, not quite on the 9 Dekalb level of excellence: but quite NICE. It will be fun to watch this new building rise to great height; hopefully at least about 900 Feet.
In addition to having a nicer design (see infoshare’s post above) it’s a few blocks away from 9 Dekalb, so they won’t be competing with each other or cancel out each other’s impact on the skyline. Brooklyn will have two peaks instead of one large one.
I agree infoshare that this one looks like a winner in renders. But as I suspect you know I always wait for the real thing to make a judgment. With Dekalb I’m ready to say it’s top notch.
Don’t forget the 80 Flatbush development another few blocks away as well.
Make that three peaks.
So is this officially under construction?
