Described by OMA partner Jason Long as “a ziggurat and its inverse,” the firm’s New York office today unveiled designs for two residential towers in Brooklyn. They are the latest in a series of bold designs transforming Brooklyn’s waterfront north of the Williamsburg Bridge across the East River from Manhattan that include the controversial redevelopment of the erstwhile Domino Sugar Factory.

Developed by Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group, OMA’s 300- and 400-foot-tall buildings, in conjunction with a seven-story podium structure containing retail and building amenities, will bring 745 units of housing—30 percent of which will be affordable—and more than an acre of new public open space to the edge of its Greenpoint neighborhood, formerly home to low warehouses, rope factories, and parking lots.