Sales are underway for units in the new SO – IL-designed 450 Warren in Brooklyn following a detailed construction period that topped out last fall.
Touting a “new way of living,” the 18 unit private residential development transforms the city into nature. Gowanus’ first-of-its-kind balanced community offers inhabitants refreshing views and an array of eco-friendly amenities surrounded by courtyard gardens in the heart of one of the borough’s most artistic neighborhoods.
Developer Tankhouse announced the plan in the spring of 2019. The residences will feature an open kitchen plan, private foyer entryways, and oversized windows in an intimate layout connected to a central rooftop atrium via a series of bridges and hallways that give users added freedom of movement around the five-story building.
Per the architect: “The materiality of 450 Warren is like nothing ever seen in New York City construction. 50,000 green-hued terrazzo-ground custom concrete blocks manufactured in Turkey form the facade, which are lifted into place individually by the masonry experts at the building. Stainless steel mesh from Germany will envelop the walkways and bridges throughout the center courtyard, where all exterior passages will have radiant heating.”
Overall the building supports a change in residential thinking SO – IL founder Florian Idenburg says was a direct result of the pandemic.
“450 Warren truly embodies a new way of city living, especially as many have reconsidered how they want to inhabit their homes over the past year,” Idenburg said in a statement. “With residences and common spaces filled with light from every angle, including from above and below, the barrier between indoor and outdoor living is blurred in an architecturally significant way.”
Prices start at $1.675 million. A closer look at the development can be found here.
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It is so hypocritical to label something as “new way of living” while blatantly ignoring how much embodied energy goes into this thing, for example… This is 2021 - when do we start actively participating in reducing carbon footprint?
Terrazzo from Turkey, steel mesh from Germany? Is that supposed to be impressive? This is just a write up to make potential wealthy clientele feel worldly.
it does read as a bit out of touch. The way of living is not related to sustainability as defined by energy reduction. It is an expensive and beautiful "eco-concept" where human-centred social ideas are addressed in the design more than the techno-fix that architects often give themselves pats on the back for recently - CLT and energy conservation, etc. Within the constraints of what they are aiming for it's pretty strong as a project, and relatively modest. They are not hypocritical since they are not making any serious claims about energy or about inclusivity for that matter. We can question if that is enough in our current world, though. On those grounds, yeah, maybe it is missing something important. More the pity that those ideals are still not (and even not becoming) normalized within the moneyed world that is responsible for most of what gets built...
50,000 green-hued terrazzo-ground custom concrete blocks notwithstanding, the "eco-friendly amenities" linked to in the article is a foyer.
i agree miles. That article is a stretch, and kind of weird. It is interesting that a foyer is the main takeaway. SO-IL should take a page from the BIG book if they want to be seen as innovative. We don't live in a world that can appreciate subtlety very much.
I'm still searching for the innovation.
mesh railings on the balconies
Is that code compliant? There are no railings at all in that interior render, just a mesh wall.
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