Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. The strip started coming to life with a small project (WXY’s skillful security booths for the MetroTech center), then with a very big one—the Toren, an SOM-designed condo tower with an unusual, dimpled-metal façade.
Next up was the SHoP-designed Barclays Center, where Mayor Bill de Blasio hopes the Democratic Party will hold its convention in 2016. Oddly, SHoP is in the process of hiding Barclays’s popular Cor-ten facades behind apartment towers; the first of the planned buildings, made of units prefabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, already obscures the arena’s east elevation.
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