Eyebeam Building Brooklyn, Cultural District in Fort Greene, New York City Architect Image
Eyebeam Brooklyn, Fort Greene, New York
Lafayette Avenue / Ashland Place Building, NY design by WORKac, USA
Mar 6, 2014
WORKac designs Eyebeam’s future facility in Brooklyn
Design: WORK Architecture Company
Cultural facility as part of mixed-use development designed by Dattner Architects / Bernheimer Architecture
Eyebeam Selects Workac As Architectural Firm For State Of The Art Facility In Brooklyn
A rendering of the new facility, with the Eyebeam center on the corner:
image : Dattner Architects / Bernheimer Architecture
Eyebeam in Brooklyn, New York City
Eyebeam is pleased to announce the selection of WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) as the architectural firm to design Eyebeam’s future facility in Brooklyn, located at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place.
“We are very excited to have Amale Andraos and Dan Wood working with us on this extraordinary project,” said Eyebeam’s Executive Director Patricia Jones. “We see them as strong collaborators who understand Eyebeam’s mission of taking risks and being at the forefront of technological and artistic innovation.”
Last October, Eyebeam announced its plans to relocate from its current home in Chelsea to the Brooklyn Cultural District in Fort Greene as part of a new project to be developed by the Jonathan Rose Companies. The mixed-use project was designated by the New York City Housing, Preservation and Development agency through a highly competitive selection process. The mixed-use development will include market rate and subsidized housing, a restaurant and cultural space. Eyebeam will develop and own the 27,000 square foot space designated for cultural use; building construction will begin in 2015 and the cultural component is projected to open in late 2016. Eyebeam’s new facility will feature state-of-the-art space for the organization’s world-renowned artist residency program, diverse public programming and innovative education offerings for adults and teens. Both Eyebeam’s facility and the building as a whole will stress green design and energy efficiency.
WORKac was selected after an extensive RFP process from an initial group of 23 firms invited to submit for the project this past fall. “Eyebeam is a groundbreaking institution and we are thrilled to be engaged in thinking together about its future, as it continues to lead at the intersection of art, media and technology, in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn’s vibrant creative community,” adds Amale Andraos, principal at WORKac.
Eyebeam’s current Chelsea location at West 21st Street, owned by The Atlantic Foundation, was placed on the market in the fall of 2013 and sold this month by Denham Wolf, the brokerage firm managing the transaction and serving as project managers for the construction of the Brooklyn facility. In June, Eyebeam will move to an interim location in Brooklyn while its permanent home is being designed and built.
About WORKac
WORKac focuses on developing architectural projects that re-invent the relationship between urban and natural environments. The firm has achieved international recognition for projects such as the Centre de Conferences in Libreville, Gabon, where architecture and landscape are seamlessly integrated and for the New Holland Island Cultural Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, which integrates art and technology to create a new kind of public experience. WORKac recently completed the first Edible Schoolyard NYC at P.S. 216 in Brooklyn and re-imagined the future of work for the newly renovated Wieden+Kennedy offices in Manhattan.
About Eyebeam
Eyebeam was founded in 1997 by filmmaker and digital media entrepreneur John S. Johnson. The organization supports provocative and risk-taking work at the intersection of art and technology. It provides support for over 20 artists annually and presents a wide range of installations, exhibitions, performances, symposia, workshops and education programs for teens and adults around such topics as sustainability, visualization techniques, security and privacy, sound art, programming and software, game design, as well as digital and internet culture.
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Location: Lafayette Avenue, Ashland Place, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
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About Work Architecture Company
WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) is a partnership founded in 2003 by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. Based in New York, WORKac strives to develop architectural and urban projects that engage culture and consciousness, nature and artificiality, surrealism and pragmatism.
WORKac’s recently completed projects include the installation ‘Public Farm 1’ at PS1/MoMA and the new headquarters for Diane von Furstenberg; current work includes the new P.S.216 Brooklyn in Queens, the extension of the Clark Art Institute at Mass MoCA, and the first Edible Schoolyard New York City with Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation. WORKac’s research on ecological urbanism resulted in the exhibition and book “49 Cities” published by the Storefront for Art and Architecture in 2009.
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