Team 8 ARCHITECT: Marvel Architects
The plans were unveiled for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s two new condos at Pier 6 last week. There are 14 submissions for review before the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation selects a winner in the fall. Pier 6 buildings will include 30% affordable housing, a pre-K facility, amenities on the ground floor for the park, like public rest rooms, some even include public indoor swimming pools, and a pedestrian bridge over the BQE connecting Columbia Place and the park.
Pier 6 of Brooklyn Bridge Park was opened in June 2010. While part of the Empire State Development Corp’s (ESD) overall plan, building condos near Pier 6 has been controvertial. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation has said that they are committed to minimize condo development on the park, but park officials maintain that the Pier 6 development is necessary to fund the park. ESD’s condo plans for Pier 6 development (since 2005) site “is permitted under the Park’s General Project Plan (GPP) for residential development with a maximum height of 315 feet on Parcel A, while Parcel B allows for residential, ground floor retail, and a maximum height of 155 feet.” However, a petition from savepier6.org argues that “parks are for “people and plants,” not skyscrapers and shadows from skyscrapers.”.
Per the Mayor’s Office:
“These are proposals to develop housing alongside Brooklyn Bridge Park near Pier 6 that will generate vital funding to maintain the park in perpetuity. They were submitted to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, which will make a selection in the fall. Consistent with the de Blasio Administration’s goals of maximizing affordable housing, 30% of the housing in the projects will be affordable to working families, with preference given to people from the nearby community, many of whom are being priced out of this corner of Brooklyn.”
To view each team’s proposal, go here: CAC Pier 6 design presentation 08.06.14.pdf (PDF file)
Architect photo renderings after the jump.
Related:
{Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 Condos REVEALED, Gothamist}
{Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Controversial Pier 6 Towers, Revealed, CurbedNY}
{ESD leaves door open to new environmental review of Pier 6 development, Brooklyn Daily Eagle}
{Opponents of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 highrises: ‘Build only to support park!’, Brooklyn Daily Eagle}
{Brooklyn Bridge Park board presents figures to back its Pier 6 plan, Brooklyn Daily Eagle}
{Brooklyn Bridge Park Project Approvals & Presentations}
Team 1 ARCHITECT: Alloy Design + Bjarke Ingles Group
Team 2 ARCHITECT: Asymptote Architecture
Team 3 ARCHITECT: BKSK + Aufgang
Team 4 ARCHITECT: Davis Brody Bond
Team 5 ARCHITECT: Future Expansion + SBN Architects
Team 6 ARCHITECT: FXFOWLE Architects
Team 7 ARCHITECT: H3 Hardy Collaboration
Team 8 ARCHITECT: Marvel Architects
Team 9 ARCHITECT: Morris Adjmi Architects
Team 10 ARCHITECT: NV/da + O’Neill McVoy Architects
Team 11 ARCHITECT: Pelli Clarke Pelli
Team 12 ARCHITECT: S9 Architecture (Perkins Eastman)
Team 13 ARCHITECT: Selldorf Architects
Team 14 ARCHITECT: WASA Studio A
