Brooklyn Bridge Park Gets Its Starchitecture

Architect: FXFowle
Landscape Architect: West 8
Hotel Partner: Hyatt

Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle
Landscape: Mathews Nielsen
Hotel: Westin

Architect: Cangelosi Design & Architecture (CDA)
Landscape: Site
Hotel: Le Meridian

Architect: Leeser Architects
Hotel: Marriott Autograph

Architect: Bernheimer Architects, Alloy Development, nArchitects
Landscape: DLand Studio
Hotel: 1 Hotel (New Starwood concept)

Architects: RogersMarvel
Hotel: Hampshire/Dream Hotel

Architect: WASA/Studio A
Landscape: SCAPE
Hotel Partner: TBD

View of the project looking down Furman Street.

The proposal concentrates development around a central courtyard.

Connecting to the Squib Park bridge.

The proposal is notable for its large window shades and the fact that only one parcel will be developed, the other being given over to St. Ann's Warehouse.

Like many developers, Extell locates the bulk of its hotel on the northern plot.

Uses are broken up into discreet volumes, with hotel and residential towers atop a conventional retail base.

The bridge cutting between the two plots.

The most polished of the designs.

The crowd gasped at the site of the Levine proposal, but the smaller plot has a certain urbane scale to it.

The Leeser design features a huge glass box with public spaces cut into it.

Th signature feature is a publicly accessible atrium, which is surrounded by apartments and hotel rooms on either side.

The lobby and various amenities float within the space.

A diagram of the complex plan.

The Starwood entry is clad in copper louvres that are meant to work as op art on the facade.

A more traditional loft-like approach is taken with the second building.

The project is raised in numerous spots, so the project does not block access to the park.

Another proposal with a northern hotel.

The project is broken up to create different views of the city.

The design also features stepped-up spaces, creating terraces and rooftop green spaces.

Another green project is Two Trees offering, which includes a three-story hotel lobby at the northern corner.

The park-facing facade features a "living wall."

The Brooklyn Heights side lacks the green wall, but the apartment pods that protrude from the building persist.

The proposal snakes along the site, creating additional park space in the crooks of the buildings.

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As The Observer previously reported, Brooklyn Bridge Park had attracted a swell of high-profile development and design attention to the first new development parcel planned alongside the park. Calling for a hotel and luxury apartments, the competition attracted not only the firms we knew—Two Trees, Toll Brothers, Dermot, Extell and Hamlin—but also Starwood Capital (working with Hamlin), SDS Procida and Robert A. Levine. The latter are known for On Prospect Park and One Brooklyn Bridge Park, respectively.

All of them have hired top notch architects, offering the kind of dynamic neighborhood BBP president Regina Meyer said she was hoping for. The community was not exactly thrilled with what they saw at the unveiling of the designs tonight—more on that tomorrow—but without further ado, here they are.

mchaban [at] observer.com | @MC_NYC

Brooklyn Bridge Park Gets Its Starchitecture

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