Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a new movie studio to be constructed along the Brooklyn waterfront. Commissioned by production company Samson Stages, the Red Hook Studio is imagined as a “dynamic vertical village, where the building structure is created from the stacking of eight stacked stages.”
The 330,000-square-foot building is projected to cost $400 million to deliver and will include green terraces, parking, and a new public park. Internally, the building will feature a cafe alongside the eight stacked stages.
The Brooklyn studios project is separate from the BIG-designed Wildflower Studios development currently under construction in nearby Queens. Designed for the Robert De Niro-led Wildflower Development Group, the Queens project shares Red Hook’s approach of a vertical film studio, with two levels of sound stages.
News of the studio comes weeks after BIG and Safdie completed a jagged new tower in Quito, Ecuador, as well as a pixelated tower in Calgary, Canada. 2022 also saw BIG’s major Los Angeles Arts District development move one step closer to construction, and the firm’s community of 100 3D printed homes begin construction in Texas in collaboration with ICON.
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It's great that this film industry project is coming to New York. It's long been in the works. That said, architecturally, the more I see of BIG's work the more I can't fathom what the bid deal is about it. Honestly.
This particular project looks as if Imhotep and Yamasaki were stuffed in a Cuisinart and someone pushed the puree button.
Film studios tend to be big dumb boxes, -- essentially insides with no outsides, so there's that. And perhaps that's the problem. Another architect may have simply worked with the big dumb box and not gone for the cheesy wedding cake cum vegetation. Perhaps they can make it into a downhill ski resort in the winter?
Not enough NYPD.
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