Shoehorned onto a tight site just west of Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, 1 Willoughby Square aims to update the industrial loft for an era of hybrid work and environmental responsibility. The first new office building in Brooklyn in about 20 years—and now the tallest at 540 feet—it rises 34 stories and offers an alternative to the all-glass towers that have become predominant in recent years. “We wanted to create a building that responds to its Brooklyn context and not just do another Manhattan office tower,” says Gustavo Rodriguez, a partner and design director at FXCollaborative, the architects for the project. To achieve this, the design takes advantage of the odd T-shape plot by pulling its elevator-and-service core off to one side and sporting spandrel panels with corbelled courses of glazed brick that nod to the detailing of a nearby New York Telephone building designed by Ralph Walker in 1931.
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