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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Architects

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

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Collaborators

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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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Renderings

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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 focused mainly on reactivating urban spaces that are considered to be residual or forgotten.

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 and 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 by the Architectural League of New York.

Published on: April 5, 2024

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