Worldwide structure studio Woods Bagot has accomplished the foyer design of the Brooklyn Tower, a supertall skyscraper that’s the tallest within the New York Metropolis borough.
Woods Bagot was commissioned for the inside areas – together with lobbies, facilities areas and furnishings – for the SHoP Architects-designed skyscraper, which is finishing this 12 months. To this point, it has accomplished the 2 entrances that may usher residents into the foyer.
The tower itself rises from the historic Dimes Saving Financial institution in Downtown Brooklyn, so Woods Bagot wanted to navigate the historic design in addition to the “future landmark”.
“Along with the architect we seemed to the long run relatively than deal with a nostalgia for the previous,” Woods Bagot principal Krista Ninvaggi advised Dezeen.
“Paradoxically, [American architect] Hugh Ferriss’s work and dedication to retro-futurism influenced our designs,” she added.
“We very a lot needed the interiors to be in dialogue with the ethos of the outside of the constructing, in order that it felt like an entire work and continued the imaginative and prescient of the outside. The aim was for the within and out of doors to be unified as a complete work.”
Woods Bagot’s resolution to create this unification was to deal with small particulars, such because the wooden panelling in the principle foyer, which was milled at one-half the dimensions of the outside facade extrusions.
The design included each of the 2 residential entrances to the tower, considered one of which passes via the Dimes Financial savings Financial institution constructing on Fleet Road.
Each entrances have oak panelling and cream-coloured hexagonal flooring that was primarily based on the unique flooring for the financial institution.
The Flatbush Avenue entrance, via the extension constructed for the tower, acts as the first foyer and has a concierge desk positioned in entrance of a recess.
Gold and bronze detailing and customized furnishings designed by Ninvaggi – resembling a built-in stone bench – have been organized across the desk and the wooden panelling is backlit.
From right here, a passageway with arches clad in stone connects the principle foyer with the Fleet Road entrance. Additionally accessed from the principle foyer is the elevator financial institution.
This space has a vaulted ceiling clad in liberty dimes, one other reference to the financial institution, and the elevators are framed by gold detailing.
“We additionally used an abstracted mercury dime face because the signage for the ATM tucked away within the foyer,” mentioned Ninvaggi.
“Although we needed to reference the financial institution we deliberately included wooden, which was not discovered within the financial institution’s unique materials palette. This warmed the area and offers it a extra residential really feel and the lighter wooden tone compliments the stone.”
“General, we made strides to summary our references for a modern-day viewers,” she added.
Woods Bagot was based in Adelaide, Australia in 1869. Different current tasks by the studio embody a conference centre in Christchurch with a curved, tile facade in collaboration with New Zealand studio Warren & Mahoney and an growth to Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport.
The Brooklyn Tower is scheduled to be accomplished within the subsequent few months, with most of its black facade already having been put in.
The images is by Adrian Gaut.
