The Brooklyn Tower is a blend of historic preservation and contemporary design. Rising 1,035 feet and 74 stories, it is Brooklyn's first supertall skyscraper and the tallest building outside Manhattan. The historic Dime Savings Bank Building was meticulously restored and integrated into the new supertall skyscraper. Its dark bronze and blackened stainless-steel façade draws inspiration from the neighboring Bank Building, creating a dramatic contrast with the bank's white marble Beaux-Arts architecture. The tower's slender, hexagonal form features a series of setbacks that reduce its visual mass while emphasizing its verticality. At its base, the landmarked Bank Building has been carefully restored and integrated into the development, preserving its grand marble colonnades, domed rotunda, and ornate historic interiors while adapting them for new public and residential uses.

As the bank expanded, the structure was enlarged. This sympathetic addition preserved the grandeur of Mowbray &amp; Uffinger's original Beaux-Arts design while providing additional banking space.

Constructed as the headquarters of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn. The Beaux-Arts building is distinguished by its monumental white marble façade, grand Ionic colonnades, copper-clad dome, and richly ornamented banking hall.

Brooklyn Tower

Pier 17 is a major new addition to the public life of Manhattan`s Seaport district.This 300,000 square foot building is home to a wide range of uses that contribute to the vitality and continuity of public space along the riverfront. At ground level a sheltered, open-air pedestrian experience offers a mix of dining, gathering, and smaller-scale retail integrally connected to the surrounding promenades and parklands of SHoP`s East River Waterfront.

South Street Seaport: Pier 17

Pier 17

One of our earliest projects, Dunescape embodies an approach to design, public experience, and the use of new technologies that still defines and inspires the work of our studio.In 2000, the Museum of Modern Art began its Young Architects Program, a competition to imagine an installation in the forecourt of its PS1 art center in Queens. As the winner that inaugural year, SHoP created an immersive environment that invited visitors to gather, linger, and inhabit the institution in new ways, as well as serving as the centerpiece for Warm Up, an infamous series of summertime raves. Responding to the modest budget and the need for very rapid construction by an unskilled labor force (our friends), we used the digital tools of the day to not only imagine a novel form but also to optimize it into something that could be very efficiently built.Dunescape inspired what has become SHoP`s signature approach to construction technology: working to eliminate the unnecessary barriers between imagination and realization that have always complicated the process of creating great architecture. Arranged and assembled thoughtfully with our digital tools, simple, authentic materials can be used to achieve surprisingly sophisticated spaces and effects.

Moma PS1

Dunescape

SITE Santa Fe was beginning to feel constrained by the old beer warehouse it calls home. A renovation and expansion gave it the spaces it needs to thrive.This project focused on a comprehensive upgrading of the exhibition and support spaces at SITE Santa Fe, one of the leading contemporary art institutions in the Southwest. Behind the scenes, our work included action to modernize environmental systems, provide the staff with new administrative and educational facilities, and streamline the handling and care for art in a reconfigured back-of-house. We also expanded SITE`s existing building to provide several new galleries, a large auditorium, a learning center, a new pre-admission zone with public services and amenities, and several outdoor spaces designed both for exhibition and gathering. With its prominent location adjacent to a large park at the gateway to Santa Fe`s Railyard District, SITE needed to perform well at the civic scale: welcoming the public and communicating the spirit of the institution and its neighborhood. Unlike the nearby historic center of the city, this area is defined by concrete and steel industrial structures, many re-purposed now for use by a range of arts and design enterprises. The new architecture serves to signpost that activity, as it invites the public inside.The folded, perforated aluminum system defining the exterior of the building was calibrated to respond dramatically to the intense Santa Fe light. In keeping with SITE`s scrappy nature as an institution, these elements were reserved for the two major entrances, with a simple gray stucco used on the long, mostly windowless walls in between.The character and performance of the new and renovated interior spaces was of particular concern for this project. SITE`s work as an innovative arts institution had at times been restricted by its existing building. The minimal changes made to it over the previous decades had become part of SITE`s story&mdash;and its appeal to visitors&mdash;but the raw warehouse nonetheless posed significant operational limitations. As the organization matured, SITE was faced with the profound logistical demands relating to art handling and display that are common to museums everywhere. By engaging fully with SITE`s administration and staff in an efficient process of discovery, we were able to develop a physical and material strategy for meeting their staging and support needs, while also designing new and renovated gallery spaces that fulfilled the expectations of their expanding audience.

Site Santa Fe

Midtown Center is a 14-story mixed-use office, dining, and retail complex located in the heart of Washington, D.C. The building is arranged around a large new public plaza. The building's glass-and-copper facade is designed to slowly patina over time, integrating it with its environment and honoring local architectural traditions. This architectural expression optimizes solar shading while maintaining maximal daylight conditions for the workplaces within. A series of three 100 feet long bridges cross between the two wings of the complex, serving as sculptural elements that animate the courtyard below. The bridges link a number of gathering and amenity spaces that serve as a focus for office life. The building has a LEED Gold certification, which means that it meets certain standards for energy efficiency and sustainability.

Midtown Center

An immersive environment shaped by cutting-edge techniques, Flotsam &amp; Jetsam celebrates innovation&mdash;and the beach.As recipients of the 2016 Design Visionary Award, SHoP was given the opportunity to create an installation to serve as the gateway to the annual Design Miami fair. The result was a two-acre landscape of experimentation, inspired in equal parts by the city`s celebrated spirit of play and its less well-known role as an emerging technology hub. Flotsam &amp; Jetsam centered on a pair of pavilions showcasing novel 3D-printing techniques from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Branch Technology. Thornton Tomasetti analyzed the structures, considered at the time to be among the largest 3D-printed objects ever produced. Design and production work across the team was conducted on the Dassault Syst&egrave;mes 3DExperience platform.Following its run at the 2016 Design Miami, Flotsam &amp; Jetsam was brought to the Miami Design District, where it was reassembled in Jungle Plaza to serve as a focal point for the farmers market and performances there. In 2019, components of the structure were relocated to Nairobi, Kenya in conjunction with the United Nations Environmental Assembly. Later, Flotsam &amp; Jetsam moved to a permanent home at the University of Nairobi.

Design Miami

Jungle Miami

Flotsam & Jetsam

The Hangil Book House brings a sensitivity to landscape and processional space to an art park outside of Seoul. SHoP was commissioned in 2001 to design an exhibition hall and book house for Hangil Publishing, a premiere publisher of art and philosophy books. Echoing the Art Park`s interlaced landscape, the interior spaces of the Book House are linked to the surrounding hillside and wooded landscape. These paths create a fluid passage of space and movement by merging a variety of programs into a seamless sequence with unfolding views of the surrounding terrain.

Hangil Book House

The Uber Headquarters is designed to encourage vibrant life on the streets of its emerging San Francisco neighborhood. In addition to supporting responsible development by locating it in the city near public transportation, the project`s key goal is to bring this developing area into step with the successful, human-scaled environments for which San Francisco is so famous. The 423,000 square foot project includes an eleven-story tower at 1455 Third Street and a six-story structure at 1515 Third Street, each with active facades that are part of a comprehensive approach to sustainability. This new workplace, Uber`s first ground-up building, also marks a departure from the growing trend of an entirely open plan office. Instead, work stations are arranged in a series of smaller neighborhoods, each with access to shared support and collaborative work zones. Defined by their distinct palettes and elevated materiality, these neighborhoods echo the rich mix of lifestyles essential to the health of every urban environment&mdash;and every large company. Taking advantage of San Francisco`s temperate climate, the sustainability features of the Uber buildings center on their innovative &ldquo;breathing&rdquo; fa&ccedil;ades&mdash;a computer-controlled system of operable windows that greatly reduce the need for mechanical ventilation. The full-building-height indoor/outdoor spaces of the Commons serves as a buffer zone between the unconditioned exterior and the conditioned interior office environment. That feature is an integral part of a whole-building environmental strategy that also includes on-site water collection and solar harvesting, with green space both on the roof and in the public park at ground level. The building is expected to meet LEED Platinum requirements when complete.

An eleven-story tower at 1455 Third Street and a six-story structure at 1515 Third Street,

Uber Headquarters

SHoP gave this small apartment building at 127 Madison Avenue an outsized attitude.A renovation and addition to an existing structure, this project plays on the notion of liberating its interior volumes from the structural grid of the building. Angled steel and glass window boxes were inserted into the large horizontal openings of the existing brick facade to create intimate seating nooks within the interior. Cantilevering out over the street, they also offer expansive views down the avenue towards Madison Square Park. Completed in 2008, the building has eight floor-through apartments and two duplexes with outdoor terraces.

127 Madison Avenue

The design of the Barclays Center achieves a striking balance between iconic form and performative engagement with the street. It is legible at multiple scales while maintaining an identity that delights visitors, neighbors, fans, and spectators. Integrated into one of the busiest urban intersections in the New York metro area, the Center sustains a healthy, interactive dialogue with the surrounding streets and neighborhood. The Main Public Concourse is predominately glazed at the sidewalk level to ensure optimum accessibility and visibility. The civic gesture of the arena is heightened by a spectacular 30' high canopy that contains an oculus which frames the view of the arena. The Main Public Entrance plaza links Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues and creates a flexible, welcoming, yet grand civic space. Views and physical access both into and out of the arena are plentiful, easy and accommodating, thus ensuring a strong connection to the surrounding urban environment.

The arena floor is sited below grade to allow views of the bowl and scoreboard from the entry and even the plaza outside. The main concourse is built exactly at sidewalk level.&amp;nbsp; 

Barclays Center

The American Copper Buildings are a bold new presence on Manhattan`s East River skyline.Evoking the proportions of the nearby United Nations Secretariat, the sculptural design&mdash;two copper-clad towers that bend in the middle to meet at a skybridge&mdash;brings a new dynamism to an overlooked area of the city.

American Copper Buildings

Our ability to make exceptional architecture in complex circumstances&mdash;and the conviction to take on risk to support our design&mdash;helped to make The Porter House a local landmark.When this residential renovation and addition was completed in 2003 at the northern edge of Manhattan`s Meatpacking District, it marked a major turning point in the transformation of the area. The boldness and elegance of the project`s 20,000 square foot, four-story addition showcased a playful yet respectful attitude toward adaptive reuse that would come to characterize the evolving neighborhood. But the design didn`t begin with iconic intentions. A sophisticated study of zoning possibilities, particularly air rights, was combined with meticulous structural analysis. This resulted in the proposal to gain additional square footage for the project by extending one side of the new construction eight feet beyond the south wall of the historic building.After determining that a cantilevered structure was the best way forward, the challenge became integrating that big move with the subtle Renaissance Revival style of the 1905 warehouse. In keeping with the optimism of the project and the Meatpacking District at large in its early days, the decision was made to accentuate the differences between each mass while retaining a consonance in the details and proportions of the whole. The cantilever was resolved by setting the new construction back from the existing facade, creating the appearance of two discrete volumes that could be placed in dialogue with each other&mdash;light and dark, brick and metal, old and new.An authentic material, one that didn`t require additional treatment or sheathing, was essential for the new exterior in order to maintain its relationship to the integrity of the existing structure. When the choice&mdash;a French zinc&mdash;was jeopardized by cost during project development, SHoP joined with our developer client as partners to absorb the difference. With our investment tied to the outcome of the project, we discovered a beneficial shift in the client-architect relationship. Design could become bolder as decision-making became more fluid, trusting, and productive. This experience inspired us to repeat the co-investment model in other work&mdash;protecting our design intent and helping to ensure the financial success of those projects.

(the corner of Ninth Avenue and 15th Street)

The Porter House

Mulberry House responds to its prominent site with an innovative facade and spaces made for downtown living.Located at the gateway to Manhattan`s Nolita neighborhood, Mulberry House is home to nine residential units in its thirteen stories. Ground floor retail serves the busy shopping district. Proximity to the Puck Building, notable for its decorative brickwork, led to the reinterpretation of brick construction as a design objective. The rippled facade acknowledges the panelized nature of the material, while paying tribute to the highly articulated architecture of this historic neighborhood.

Mulberry House

Manhattan`s classic skyscrapers are a powerful combination of optimistic expression and technical invention. 111 West 57th Street updates that heritage for today.With a total height of 1,428 feet, the residential tower at 111 West 57th Street is among the tallest buildings in New York City. As a prominent new local and regional landmark, it bears a special responsibility to contribute meaningfully and elegantly to the shared skyline. We achieved that goal by carefully shaping the tower`s profile, and by developing an innovative approach to using an authentic material from the golden age of the Manhattan skyscraper: terra-cotta.Terra-cotta is one of the most beautiful and adaptable materials available to architects today. For 111 West 57th Street, blocks of sequentially varying profiles were modeled, extruded, glazed, and then stacked into an involuted pattern, like a softly breaking wave, that appears at once novel and familiar. Staggering those elements across the facade creates a distinctive moiré that changes dramatically when seen in different lights or from various distances.

111 West 57th

The Botswana Innovation Hub is the cornerstone of a national program to support the growth of technology-driven research and entrepreneurship.Located where the capital, Gaborone, meets the Kalahari Desert, the Botswana Innovation Hub will house a wide range of initiatives in technology incubation, education, and scientific research. To encourage mentorship, the Hub also makes space for the local offices of a number of international tech companies. When completed, facilities will include a full range of creative workspaces and laboratories in an ecologically responsive and environmentally sensitive complex.To realize this ambitious project under demanding logistical constraints, SHoP deployed select teams to live in Gaborone and work on-site with our local partners. Together we deployed a full range of digital modeling and visualization technologies, many developed in-house. Clash detection and other construction management functions are being achieved in the field via an iPhone-accessible 3D database hosted in New York. The design and delivery of the building envelope is a landmark project in the development of fully automated, paperless, direct-to-fabrication construction techniques.

Botswana Innovation Hub

Rector Street Bridge

The East River Waterfront Esplanade seeks to improve access to the waterfront, enhance pedestrian connectivity, and create waterfront amenities for public use and enjoyment. The existing esplanade is enhanced, new sections will be created, and several piers will be renovated and redeveloped. This bold and ambitious plan will revitalize the Lower Manhattan waterfront that currently suffers from weak connections, a lack of amenities, and underutilization. The project aims to improve the quality of life for local residents, workers, and visitors alike.&nbsp;

A popular place to get near the water. The bottom steps are submerged at high tide. A rail there keeps park visitors safe while allowing an unobstructed view of the river from the walkways above. Improving access to the waterfront&nbsp; Peter Mauss/ESTO

Pier 15

East River Waterfront Esplanade

 Ken Smith discusses the design of the two level park. 

Essex Crossing, designed by Handel Architects, has a 1000 apartments 


in the 1.65 million sf project is on the largest parcel of underdeveloped land south of 96th Street. 

The Essex

Essex Crossing

 The first residential building to open at Pacific Park, 461 Dean Street contains 363 residential units as well as ground-level retail. Half of the units will house affordable to low-, moderate-, and middle-income New Yorkers. At 32 stories, it will be the tallest modular building in the world. To address the requirements of the Design Guidelines established by the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), a series of setbacks were articulated and integrated into the buildings` massing. A variety of materials, colors, and fabrication techniques create an intricate play of light, pattern, and texture over the fa&ccedil;ade of the building. At street level, covered entrances to the towers are integrated with full story glass storefronts, in a structure typical of the neighborhood streetscape. 

Pacific Park - 461 Dean Street

The Fulton Fish Market was built to serve the country’s largest wholesale seafood market.

Nearly razed by fire in 1995, the Tin Building was rebuilt near its original site as a a 53,000 SF two-story food hall at the base of Pier 17. Set under the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, the building offers an array of culinary experiences. The Tin Building by Jean-Georges Vongerichten is a market hall with locally sourced food, multiple restaurants, and retail. It is located in lower Manhattan’s historic Seaport.

The Tin Building by Jean-Georges at New York City's Seaport permanently closed, marking the end of an ambitious redevelopment project that cost nearly $200 million. Opened as a high-end food hall and marketplace, the venue struggled with mounting financial losses, staffing challenges, and declining operations despite its high-profile launch.The closure represents a major setback for the Seaport's recent revitalization efforts and ends a short-lived chapter for one of New York's most ambitious culinary destinations.

The historic waterfront building is set to begin as the home of the Balloon Museum, an immersive contemporary art experience. Occupying more than 50,000 square feet, the museum will feature large-scale inflatable installations, interactive exhibits, and multimedia artworks, transforming the former marketplace into one of New York City's newest cultural attractions.

Tin Building

 After 120 years of operation, the Domino Sugar Refinery closed in 2003. Since then there have been two schemes for the site. The first, designed by Raphael Vinoly in association with Beyer Blinder Belle in 2010, included new apartment towers flanking the 1884 refinery. In 2012 the property was sold to Two Trees Development who commissioned SHoP Architects to redesign the project features a mixed use community with about 2300 residential units with a larger office/ retail component. The buildings are also taller than in the Vinoly scheme allowing more open space. 

Domino Sugar Factory

Goldman Sachs opened its new headquarters, designed by Harry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed &amp; Partners. &nbsp;It was the final building to complete Battery Park City.

The building has 2.1 million square feet of space by Harry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed, in association with Adamson Associates International for Goldman Sachs. The gently curved building is 43 stories tall, measuring 740 feet above the sidewalks of the World Financial Center. Among other environmentally noteworthy features are its under-floor air distribution system. Some 11,000 people will be working in the building when fully occupied. There is a freestanding 350-seat oval auditorium on the ground floor.

200 West Street (Goldman Sachs Headquarters)

SHoP Architects is an architecture firm in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with projects located on five continents. Led by four principals, the firm provides services to residences, commercial buildings, schools and cultural institutions, as well as large-scale master plans. SHoP stands for Sharples Holden and Pasquarelli. Founded in 1996 by Gregg Pasquarelli, Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, Kimberly Holden, and William Sharples, the firm has approximately 180 employees. Its work has been exhibited internationally and included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Its first monograph, Out of Practice, was published in 2012 by the Monacelli Press.

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