Shakespeare, Gordon, Vlado: Architects (SGVA) has offered an insight into their completed multi-family housing scheme in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Named The Garnet, the project is defined by a gray and black masonry facade punctuated by jewel-toned glazed-brick accents.

Built on a 15,000-square-foot lot adjacent to the Fulton Street subway line, the scheme holds 103 apartment units above a 12,000-square-foot ground-floor retail space. A second-floor roof terrace seeks to strengthen the residents’ connection to the outdoors, adding to an overall mission of creating “housing that feels expansive and liberating, rather than constrained by its affordability.”

From the outside, the eleven-story structure is clad in textured masonry with bright accents to form a “pleasant and visually engaging street wall.” A red motif first established on the facade continues inside the lobby, where it complements the contemporary, timber-detailed interior.

Elsewhere in the building, bold “pops” of royal blue and teal combine with playful wall patterns to give a distinctive character to each apartment unit’s entryway. Inside the apartments, light blue tile forms the foundation for central living spaces, which are otherwise kept flexible in finish for tenants to “make the unit their own.”

News of the scheme comes months after SGVA offered an insight into its three upgraded science labs delivered for Columbia University. Meanwhile, other notable developments in Brooklyn include the Sunset Park Library & Apartments completed by Magnusson Architecture and Planning with Mitchell Giurgola, as well as Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts restoration.