camba office inside hra building in brooklyn

In Manhattan, however, it’s a different picture, with super slim luxury buildings soaring higher and higher, many of them concentrated in an area just below Central Park dubbed “ Billionaire’s Row.” (JDS and SHoP previously designed one of these residential spaces at 111 West 57th Street.) Manhattan’s supertalls haven’t always made headlines for the right reasons, from the spindly 432 Park Avenue, which, according to a New York Times report earlier this year, has suffered flooding, noisy wind sway and electrical explosions, to the unfortunately named PENN15 office tower which reportedly became a point of contention between former governor Andrew Cuomo and outgoing mayor Bill de Blasio.Ī rendering of The Brooklyn Tower. “There’s no other place, really, (where) you could build a building this tall.”

“We knew that this would be the tallest building in Brooklyn – and probably will be for many decades to come,” he said. Michael Toolan/JDS Development Groupīut the construction of The Brooklyn Tower doesn’t necessarily mean other super towers will follow in the borough, according to Pasquarelli. JDS Development Group, which spearheaded the project, bought the decommissioned bank for $95 million in 2016 its intricate interior is being restored and converted for retail use, while the rooftop will host residential amenities including a pool that extends around its dome.Ī view of skycraper under construction from Fort Greene Park. Now, the skyscraper’s fluted black stainless steel, bronze and glass exterior emerges from behind the white marble neoclassical facade of the landmarked early 20th-century Dime Savings Bank. (Supertalls, by definition, are residential or office buildings reaching 300 meters – 984 feet – or higher.) Newly christened “The Brooklyn Tower,” it has been under construction since 2018 and cost $750 million total to develop. The 93-story, 1,066-foot-tall residential building, standing at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, was designed by SHoP Architects. Manhattan is no stranger to supertall skyscrapers but Brooklyn’s skyline has now radically changed as its first supertall reached its full, vertiginous height on Thursday.

Camba office inside hra building in brooklyn