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- Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a 27-story constructing set to occupy 175 Third St on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, a reimagined idea from a 2023 proposal.
- Designed in collaboration with dencityworks | structure and builders Charney Corporations and Tavros, the event will comprise terraced concrete volumes and a public park designed by NYC Parks and Area Operations.
Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled the renderings for a “three-dimensional neighborhood” as a part of Brooklyn‘s Gowanus Canal redevelopment plans. Instead of a now-scrapped proposal unveiled in 2023, the reimagined growth spans over a million sq ft, anchored by a public park designed by Fieldo Operations in collaboration with NYC Parks, and an inner stepped courtyard providing panoramic views of the New York Metropolis Skyline.
BIG founder and architect Bjarke Ingels shared that the challenge at 175 Third Avenue is conceived as a “three-dimensional neighborhood of constructing blocks stacked to border a central park cascading down in the direction of the canal waterfront.” “The rational volumes are chiseled and chamfered, opening up the corners to create terraces, entrances, and outside areas. The resultant structure gives a plethora of niches for all types of life – city and intimate, private and non-private – inside and round,” he added.
The tower, consisting of terraced concrete blocks, was designed in collaboration with dencityworks | structure and builders Charney Corporations and Tavros. Culminating at 27 tales, the constructing will provide greater than 1,000 residential models, in addition to roughly 250 inexpensive housing choices. In line with Martin Voelkle of BIG the volumes are characterised by “a collection of purposeful shifts and chamfered corners” designed in accordance with “programmatic wants and the location’s contextual zoning constraints.” Cascading right into a descending U-shape, the constructing opens to the waterfront park linking 2nd and third Streets.
In line with Brownstoner, the earlier 2023 design, characterised by a extra deconstructed, sculptural sensibility, was commissioned by earlier house owners RFR, who’ve since offered the property to the brand new builders for about $160 million USD in April. A part of the multi-acre “Gowanus Wharf” revitalization, the constructing would be the 4th Gowanus challenge by Charney and Tavros. The 4 properties encompass over 2 million sq ft of recent growth.
See the gallery above for a more in-depth have a look at the proposed design.
