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The latest building in the $4.9 billion Pacific Park Brooklyn project has topped out. 461 Dean Street was the first residential tower to break ground in the complex, and its 32-storey height has been reached with the assistance of advanced design and build technology. The 346,000-square-foot structure has been executed using modular construction and is now the tallest modular building in the world.
Designed by SHoP Architects, the tower will include 363 rental apartments, 50 percent of which will be affordable for low-, moderate-, and middle-income households. The building has been designed to achieve LEED Silver certification and will feature 4,000 square feet of ground floor retail and amenities like a fitness centre, games room, dance studio, children's playroom, and roof terrace.
The 22-acre redevelopment will ultimately include six million square feet of residential space, 247,000 square feet of retail, 336,000 square feet of office space, and eight acres of public space when fully built out. The complex is positioned around the Barclays Center, a multipurpose indoor arena currently home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.
The master plan developed by Forest City Ratner Companies and designed by Frank Gehry — for what was then known as Atlantic Yards — was granted approval in 2006. In 2014, the American subsidiary of Shanghai's Greenland Group signed on as co-developer for the remaining phases of the development. The 2,250 total affordable residential units should all be completed by 2025, and many of them are already approaching delivery.
535 Carlton and 550 Vanderbilt — a condominium — also recently accomplished structural completion, with their units and common spaces coming together. The 23-storey SHoP-designed 38 Sixth Avenue began construction in 2015 and is expected to come online in 2017. Its bold and blocky facade of alternating window dressings and colour gradients expresses itself similarly to 461 Dean, which will be hosting a lottery to determine who will be moving into the apartments later this year.
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