Brooklyn

We’ve been trying to get to this all week…The “Sketch Pad” features The Times has been running are great. In case you’ve missed them, the concept is to bring in a high-end architect to think out of the box about a space that is rather un-extraordinary on its surface. This week Andrew Friedman, who’s best known for his classical designs for Park Avenue folks, takes on a two-story building on Pulaski Street and in the process creates a prototype that he fantasizes could be used to completely redo the entire block. The solution includes taking advantage of the building’s former life as a storefront and adding a third floor. The result? “Inside, Mr. Friedman and his team created what Corbusier might have called a machine for living in Brooklyn, a slick residence for the couple he had always kept in mind, and even a child or two, depending on how the spaces would be used.”
Designing a Starter House with a Twist [NY Times]
Rendering by Marco Valencia and Nathaniel Brooks of the Studio for Civil Architecture