Real Estate

At 144 Vanderbilt, a former gas station becomes a pink concrete village. Behind the striking facade is a careful negotiation between zoning, townhouse scale, and outdoor living.

The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower gave Brooklyn a skyline icon and generations of dental appointments. Its conversion into luxury condos put those two identities on a collision course.

At Bryant Park, a glass skyscraper bends around the ornate Knox Building. Behind that gesture lies an intricate effort to turn occupied buildings into one bank headquarters.

A luxury tower, a separate affordable building and a supermarket that took more than a decade to return reveal competing visions of neighborhood improvement in Two Bridges.

Rafael Viñoly’s Lower Manhattan tower traded an even taller silhouette for broader floors and a crown of shared amenities, turning prime penthouse territory into a residents’ retreat.

Brooklyn’s signature houses are brick beneath their sandstone fronts. Their transformation from practical construction to coveted real estate is a story of geology, repair, and reinvention.

With ten colors of glass and a luminous curve through its tower, the Westin turned the struggle for attention into an unusually complicated facade.

The ripples on this Brooklyn tower are places to sit. Behind them is a carefully engineered system that moves living space beyond the edge of the floor slab.

The William Vale’s giant diagonals do more than announce a Brooklyn landmark. They reconcile two competing ambitions: skyline views above and open public space below.

On Brooklyn’s waterfront, three glass towers turn a simple apartment perk into an architectural puzzle: how do you give more people a corner?