Forest City Ratner has selected SHoP Architects, the architects of The Porterhouse Building on the southeast corner of Ninth Avenue and 15th Street in Chelsea, to design the first apartment building at its Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, according to an article today by Matt Chaban at observer.com.
"Back when Frank Gehry got bounced off Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, the new designs for the Nets' arena, created by Ellerbe Beckett, were said to be so loathed by certain city officials that the developer had to find another firm to dress things up. Ratner chose local hotshots SHoP, which had made its name designing hip, slightly cerebral housing, like the Porterhouse in the Meatpacking District, and the new designs for the East River Esplanade and South Street Seaport," the article said, adding that "Back in September, when Ratner and SHoP principal Gregg Pasquarelli unveiled new designs for the public plaza at the foot of the Barclays Center arena, the architect said he would love to design some of the project's buildings, though his primary concern was executing the masterplan."
The article said that SHoP "has been tapped to design B2, the first apartment building planned for the site, along Dean Street on the southeast corner of the arena."
The first residential building on the site will be a 50-30-20 project, according to MaryAnne Gilmartin executive vice president of Forest City Ratner. The 22-acre project will eventually contain about 6,400 market-rate, middle-income and affordable apartments.
No detailed rendering the apartment tower was released.
SHoP is also designing the first two apartment towers and a school with Ishmael Leyva for the large Hunters Point South project in Queens.
Forest City Ratner is also the developer of 8 Spruce Street, a very tall stainless-steel-clad rental apartment tower over a low-rise public School near City Hall in Lower Manhattan. Frank O. Gehry designed the tower that was praised by an article in today's edition of The New York Times by architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff.
"Back when Frank Gehry got bounced off Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, the new designs for the Nets' arena, created by Ellerbe Beckett, were said to be so loathed by certain city officials that the developer had to find another firm to dress things up. Ratner chose local hotshots SHoP, which had made its name designing hip, slightly cerebral housing, like the Porterhouse in the Meatpacking District, and the new designs for the East River Esplanade and South Street Seaport," the article said, adding that "Back in September, when Ratner and SHoP principal Gregg Pasquarelli unveiled new designs for the public plaza at the foot of the Barclays Center arena, the architect said he would love to design some of the project's buildings, though his primary concern was executing the masterplan."
The article said that SHoP "has been tapped to design B2, the first apartment building planned for the site, along Dean Street on the southeast corner of the arena."
The first residential building on the site will be a 50-30-20 project, according to MaryAnne Gilmartin executive vice president of Forest City Ratner. The 22-acre project will eventually contain about 6,400 market-rate, middle-income and affordable apartments.
No detailed rendering the apartment tower was released.
SHoP is also designing the first two apartment towers and a school with Ishmael Leyva for the large Hunters Point South project in Queens.
Forest City Ratner is also the developer of 8 Spruce Street, a very tall stainless-steel-clad rental apartment tower over a low-rise public School near City Hall in Lower Manhattan. Frank O. Gehry designed the tower that was praised by an article in today's edition of The New York Times by architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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