A new FXCollaborative-designed, 34-story office tower slated taking shape in Brooklyn has topped out ahead of its late-2020 completion date.
The 500,000-square-foot complex, located at 1 Willoughby Square (1WSQ), is billed as "Brooklyn's first ground-up office tower in a generation," and comes designed with oversized windows, column-free 14,500-square-foot floor-plates, and blue glazed brick exterior cladding.
The tower will be occupied by a school created in partnership with the New York Construction Authority and by the architecture firm itself; FXCollaborative has signed on as the project's anchor tenant. The tower's design was crafted in part by FXCollaborative partner Dan Kaplan as an "industrial loft for the 21st Century," according to a project website, an ethos that combines exposed structural elements, daylighting, and energy-efficient mechanical systems. The tower also features ample indoor-outdoor connections, including a series of elevated outdoor terraces.
The combination of design details were enough to convince FXCollaborative to decamp from their current Manhattan offices "to reestablish its headquarters on three floors of 1WSQ," according to the project site.
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