Posted May 17, 2018, 1:07 AM
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NYC/NJ/Miami-Dade
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Great State of NJ
Posts: 49,410
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Construction Update: 269 Fourth Avenue
Credit: B rooklynpaper
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A new 12-story high-rise going up in Park Slope looks more Tetris block than residential tower because its upper floors jut out over open sky above the structure’s three-story neighbor.
Architects of the building at 269 Fourth Ave. between First Street and Garfield Place said they came up with its seemingly suspended-in-air design in order to make the most of the lot’s building rights — and the air rights above the next-door apartment complex at 265 Fourth Ave., which the new tower’s builder scooped up not long after it purchased the development site.
“There’s really more … developable area than the footprint allows. So, right off the bat, a lot of the design direction in how we want to develop and study this is finding a place for that area,” said Jordan Rogove, a head of Manhattan-based firm DXA Studio, which is designing the tower.
The high-rise will feature 39 condo units, according to a rep for its developer, the uppermost of which will occupy what appear to be floating floors Rogove said will be supported by a cantilever — an engineering feat builders use to extend certain structures, such as the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway’s three-tiered section in Brooklyn Heights, above thin air.
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