Architecture

A Peek Inside Five Brooklyn Architecture Firms (and One in Manhattan)

Brownstoner popped into a few architecture firms Saturday as part of Open House New York OpenStudios, in collaboration with the Architecture League of New York. Above, Senior Architect Jacob Dugopolski of WXY discussed the next phase of the company’s Brooklyn Strand project. More highlights and pictures from Brooklyn-based firms Alloy, Marble Fairbanks, SITU Studio, nArchitects, and Interboro Partners after the jump….

by Barbara Eldredge

07/13/2015 2 minute 0

More highlights and pictures from Brooklyn-based firms Alloy, Marble Fairbanks, SITU Studio, nArchitects, and Interboro Partners after the jump.

WXY is exploring ways to more effectively use oddly shaped parcels of public land near the BQE, and also interconnect park spaces in downtown Brooklyn.

SITU Studio’s Brad Samuels explained the thermoforming technique they used to make the Brooklyn Museum‘s new lobby furniture, which is debuting this week.

SITU also just started pouring the mottled concrete panels that will surround the elevator core of 1 John Street.

Upstairs from SITU, Alloy’s Margaret Cooke and Jen Steacy used a scale model to highlight the firm’s four projects in Dumbo: 1 John Street, 185 Plymouth Street, 55 Pearl Street, and 192 Water Street.

Alloy’s architects often peek out a studio window to check on 1 John Street’s progress.

Karen Fairbanks, partner of Marble Fairbanks, explained the modular interlocking panel system they created in 2008, a commission from the Museum of Modern Art.

nARCHITECTS laid out a number of eye-catching models from its work in New York and abroad.

In their studio on Flatbush Avenue, Interboro Partners — Daniel D’Oca, Tobias Armborst, and Georgeen Theodore — discussed their forthcoming Encyclopedia of Exclusion, a compendium of architecture and planning practices used to keep people apart.