168 Plymouth Street , Dumbo, Brooklyn
An exterior corner view of a converted industrial warehouse featuring dark painted massing and multi-pane factory windows, useful as a precedent for urban loft adaptive reuse.
- What we like about this project
- The upper penthouse levels transition into a much lighter, highly glazed modern steel and glass addition set back from the heavy cornice line.
Materials
- painted-masonry
- steel
- glass
Visual identifiers
- dark-grey-facade
- factory-windows
- corner-massing
- penthouse-setback
- industrial-loft
Style tags
- industrial
- adaptive-reuse
- contemporary-historic
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- urban-infill
- industrial-loft
- corner-building
- grid-facade
- Geometry
- An orthogonal multi-story corner massing featuring a setback glazed penthouse addition and regular vertical window bays wrapped around the corner.
- Facade system
- Rendered or masonry wall punched with large multi-pane metal frame industrial windows.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber or reinforced concrete frame structure with non-loadbearing exterior masonry curtain walls.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban infill building roughly eight stories tall, scaled harmoniously with adjacent historic industrial fabric.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast daylight with warm internal lights glowing through the grid windows and soft sky gradients behind clouds.
- Atmosphere
- A grounded, sturdy urban mood softened by warm interior illumination spilling out onto the street corner.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street corner in a historic industrial neighborhood with brick neighboring structures and parked cars along the curb.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street intersection with a solid dark masonry-like presence, while large industrial multi-pane windows lighten the facade and reveal interior lighting.
- Composition rhythm
- A steady grid of multi-pane window assemblies repeating vertically and horizontally across the dark massing.
- Style reading
- Industrial-industrialist adaptive reuse
- Program
- Multi-family residential lofts or creative office space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-masonry, steel, glass
- Visual identifiers
- dark-grey-facade, factory-windows, corner-massing, penthouse-setback, industrial-loft
- Style tags
- industrial, adaptive-reuse, contemporary-historic
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, urban-infill, industrial-loft, corner-building, grid-facade
- Geometry
- An orthogonal multi-story corner massing featuring a setback glazed penthouse addition and regular vertical window bays wrapped around the corner.
- Facade system
- Rendered or masonry wall punched with large multi-pane metal frame industrial windows.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber or reinforced concrete frame structure with non-loadbearing exterior masonry curtain walls.
- Spatial scale
- Mid-rise urban infill building roughly eight stories tall, scaled harmoniously with adjacent historic industrial fabric.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast daylight with warm internal lights glowing through the grid windows and soft sky gradients behind clouds.
- Atmosphere
- A grounded, sturdy urban mood softened by warm interior illumination spilling out onto the street corner.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban street corner in a historic industrial neighborhood with brick neighboring structures and parked cars along the curb.
- Spatial experience
- The building anchors the street intersection with a solid dark masonry-like presence, while large industrial multi-pane windows lighten the facade and reveal interior lighting.
- Composition rhythm
- A steady grid of multi-pane window assemblies repeating vertically and horizontally across the dark massing.
- Style reading
- Industrial-industrialist adaptive reuse
- Program
- Multi-family residential lofts or creative office space
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture