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2024-05-13T16:08:21-04:00
https://archinect.com/news/article/150352377/herzog-de-meuron-s-powerhouse-arts-restoration-opens-in-brooklyn
Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts restoration opens in Brooklyn
Josh Niland
2023-06-06T14:56:00-04:00
>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e273a49d79ea66a6f8e5069abfc2ef97.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A crossover arts and manufacturing project from <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/577/herzog-de-meuron" target="_blank">Herzog & de Meuron</a> opened on May 19 following several years of construction that remade a former brownfield site into the new home of the non-profit Powerhouse Arts in Red Hook, Brooklyn.</p>
<p>Coinciding with the ongoing <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/94270145/the-once-and-future-gowanus" target="_blank">cleanup</a> of the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/21766/gowanus" target="_blank">Gowanus Canal</a>, the project reused a Turbine Hall located at the site of Brooklyn's Rapid Power Transit Station from 1904 while adding new space in the shell of a reinstated Bolier House building that was semi-preserved in the process.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3d/3d1315a1818bcffdcc988938bb11f851.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3d/3d1315a1818bcffdcc988938bb11f851.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image © Iwan Baan/Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron.</figcaption></figure><p>Nicknamed “The Batcave” by many of the city’s graffiti taggers after its decommissioning in the 1950s, the site was decontaminated as part of the New York State Brownfield Cleanup program prior to the firm winning the project's commission and then beginning its planning phase at the end of 2016.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3e/3eb8f90834152d1902a06f5770413ab4.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3e/3eb8f90834152d1902a06f5770413ab4.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image © Iwan Baan/Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron.</figcaption></figure><p>Herzog & de Meuron says: “The industrial landscape and history of the site play a pivota...</p>