The new 1,000 square meter artist studio building sits atop a single story manufacturing space in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood. It is a partially deconstructed cube exposing its multiple skin layers.
The principal attraction of the building's industrial site is the spectacular, un-obstructed view of the Manhattan skyline to the northwest. The fully glazed north and west elevations take full advantage of that view. Other elevations are almost mute. South and the east facades are surfaced with oxidized zinc panels. Only a few vision punch-throughs break up the rhythm. The zinc panels form the outermost layer of the building's exterior skin and mediate between the highly finished courtyard elevations, and the delivery truck filled industrial landscape of the neighborhood.
The abundant exterior terraces serve as common areas of interaction for the building's artists.