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Keyboard facade apartment building is coming to Bushwick

2021-05-06T16:42:00-04:00

Renderings of a new five-story residential building in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood have surfaced, featuring a unique and playful façade that takes the shape of a giant keyboard.

The renderings were discovered on the website of iAffordNY, a marketing agency that works with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to place tenants in affordable apartments. INEX Design, who are credited on the renderings, also revealed them on their Instagram account.

The musical theme continues in the building’s interior, where another keyboard design decorates a hallway wall in the lobby, along with cassette tape wallpaper in the laundry room. Even the cabinets within the units are arranged to resemble musical bars.

According to Brownstoner, the building is currently under construction, and based on the building permit, there will be a total of eight apartments with three being designated as affordable.

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Watch the progress of ODA's "Living Facade" in Park Slope

2017-07-18T16:47:00-04:00

Construction of ODA's 251 1st Street residential complex in Park Slope is now reaching completion, demonstrating fragmented massing which the firm believes imbues the structure with a "living facade."

As the architects explain, "ODA’s inflected the building’s upper massing with a cascade of setbacks and terraces, yielding substantial outdoor space, as well as multiple exposures for units." Here's a gif demonstrating the concept from a different perspective:

Photo: Miguel de Guzman

A tale of two parks: debate rages over a new plan for a "Maker Park" in Brooklyn

2016-05-31T17:39:00-04:00

The original plan [for a new park in Brooklyn] would tear down the graveyard of rusting oil refineries that sit on the site, which stretches from Greenpoint to Williamsburg along the East River, and return the reedy riverbank to something closer to nature. The new idea, called Maker Park, would keep the refineries and turn them into a sort of industrial theme park — “a beautiful and otherworldly industrial topography,” according to the website of its advocates.

The plot of land in question is along the Bushwick Inlet in Brooklyn.

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