Bergen, a good neighbour for Brooklyn, by Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo has featured the first images of her residential project, Bergen, in the Boerum Hill neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York. The neighbourhood is characterized by its low reddish stone streets and tree-lined sidewalks. A quiet area where you can walk, with young professionals and families gives the area a village atmosphere.

The Mexican studio Taller Frida Escobedo has achieved some of the most interesting projects in recent years. Since its founding in 2006 in Mexico City, she became the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in London (2018), later she was commissioned to design the new modern and contemporary art wing of the well-known New York Museum, the Metropolitan Museum. of Art (Met), and finally this residential project in Brooklyn, New York.

Bergen residential complex by Frida Escobedo. Rendering by DARCSTUDIO.

Bergen is a seven-story residential project that Frida Escobedo will build at 323 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, a structure of almost 20,000 square meters and 105 homes, configurable in 53 different types, ranging from studios to five-bedroom units.

The building, which seeks to integrate its materiality and colour with the neighbourhood, will comprise two wings connected by a central service volume "Glass House." The façade of the building has an angle that maximizes natural light from the east-west direction and 75% of the homes will have access to private terraces.

The project will be developed by Avdoo & Partners Development with GF55 Architects as local architects and Workstead as the interior designer. The project was previously called 311-341 Bergen Street and is located along Bergen Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues.

The proposal by Frida Escobedo, architect of the new Met Wing (in which she has installed a studio), will be the second residential project in New York after she collaborates with Handel in the mixed-use promotion of the National Black Theater in Harlem. The project for the new residential complex will be delivered in 2025.

Graphic regulations. Bergen residential complex by Frida Escobedo.

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Taller Frida Escobedo. Architect.- Frida Escobedo.
Architect-of-record.- GF55.

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Interior design.- Workstead.
Master planning.- DXA Studio.
Landscape design, horticulture.- Partick Cullina.

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Developer

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Avdoo & Partners.

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Location

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Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. New York, USA.

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DARCSTUDIO.

Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo López (b. 1979, Mexico City) founded her practice in 2006, after four years as co-director of the architectural firm Perro Rojo. Her award-winning work has primarily focused on revitalising urban spaces that are often considered residual or forgotten. Frida Escobedo established her studio in Mexico City in 2006 and opened a studio in New York in 2022. The studio’s reputation was initially built on the strength of a series of projects in her native country, including the renovation of the Hotel Boca Chica (2008), the El Eco Pavilion (2010), and the expansion of La Tallera Siqueiros in Cuernavaca (2012). The studio gained international recognition in 2018, when Escobedo received the prestigious appointment to design the annual Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens, becoming the youngest architect to date to undertake the project.

In 2004, she was awarded the Scholarship for Young Creators by the National Fund for Arts and Culture (FONCA), and in 2008, she was selected by Herzog & de Meuron as one of the architectural studios to participate in the Ordos 100 Project in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2009, she was a winner of the Young Architects Forum, organised by the Architectural League of New York. In 2013, she was selected as one of the three finalists for the Architecture programme at the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She was nominated for the Arc Vision Prize for Women and the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. In 2014, she was selected as a finalist for the Designs of the Year at the Design Museum in London and was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize of the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2014, she won the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Prize (IX BIAU) in Rosario, Argentina. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York.

Frida Escobedo was appointed in 2022 as the design architect for the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, becoming the youngest architect and first woman to design a building for the institution. In 2024, she was selected as a co-designer to lead architect Moreau Kusunoki to lead the renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Other major recent projects include The Ray Harlem (2025) in New York (with Handel Architects), a mixed-use project incorporating residences, commercial space, and the new home of the National Black Theatre; and Otis Plaza (2024) in San Francisco, with Fletcher Studio and support from Multistudio.

Frida Escobedo is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Architectural League of New York’s Young Architects Forum Award (2009), the BIAU Prize (2014), the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award (2016), and the Architectural League Emerging Voices Award (2017). In 2019, she was honoured as an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Most recently, the Créateurs Design Association & Awards honoured Frida Escobedo with Le Prix Charlotte Perriand for 2024.

Frida Escobedo has taught at Universidad Iberoamericana, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the Architectural Association of London, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Rice University, and Yale University.

Published on: April 5, 2024

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