SHoP Architects-Designed Red Hook Townhouse With Zinc and Wood Exterior Asks $3.15 Million

Here’s a brand new two-family townhouse with a striking modern exterior.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Red Hook at 87 DIkeman Street

by Chris Erikson

06/05/2017 3 minute 0

Here’s a brand new Red Hook townhouse with a striking modern exterior, designed by the NYC-based firm SHoP Architects, whose resume includes a modest little thing called the Barclays Center and a bunch of other major projects, including the towering building going up at 9 Dekalb Avenue.

In the midst of such big-ticket projects they seem to have made time for a relatively modest two-family townhouse, which sits at 87 Dikeman Street, a choice spot near Fairway and the shops and restaurants of Van Brunt Street.

We’ll borrow the listing’s description of the modern exterior: it’s “composed of a combination of zinc metal panels juxtaposed by polar white concrete planks and highlighted by a hardwood slat screen at the exterior stair, and full-height Peerless windows.” That exterior stair is paneled with slats of sustainable Machiche wood, making for a distinctive and attractive entrance to the upper triplex.

The interior doesn’t command the eyes nearly the way the exterior does, though it’s attractive enough. It incorporates a one-bedroom rental on the lower level and a triplex above that could have four bedrooms or three with a second living room.

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The latter’s got a large living/dining space, walnut floors and a minimalist open kitchen with Paperstone countertops and Viola Park cabinetry. Heating and cooling is via “linear slot diffusers” — unobtrusive slits in the ceiling.

There are three terraces, which incorporate decorative slats of some of that same attractive wood, and offer water views. There’s also a large patio and garden which is a) not pictured, and b) not accessible from the triplex. Seems like fairly plum turf to cede to a renter, even if you’ve got all those terraces.

There’s a laundry closet in the triplex and a driveway to park in.

Listed by Compass brokers Maryanne Farrell and Melissa Sheehy, the house is asking $3.15 million, which comes to just slightly over $1,000 a square foot. What do you make of it?

[Listing: 87 Dikeman Street | Broker: Compass] GMAP