New York-based Shop Architects is designing Brooklyn’s initial super-tall skyscraper – a spindly structure that will rise 1,000 feet above the downtown district.

An image released this week by the neighborhood publication YIMBY exhibits a skinny tower with setbacks at the upper amounts. The mixed-use skyscraper will reportedly rise 1,000 feet (305 metres), producing it the tallest creating in New York outside of Manhattan.

The task is slated to be constructed at 340 Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, in an spot where new buildings seldom rise above 600 feet. The web site at the moment contains the historic Dime Cost savings Bank, which opened in 1908.

Completion is tentatively scheduled for 2019. A spokesperson for the developer told Dezeen that the picture was of a preliminary design.

“SHoP’s tower will be a dramatic improvement for the two the cityscape and the skyline,” wrote NIMBY, which tracks New York constructing tasks. “With slender proportions capped in pointed, Deco-tinged accents, the constructing will have a notable presence with no overwhelming its surrounds.”

Rising about 90 storeys, the proposed tower will have 550 residential units totalling 466,000 square feet (43,290 square metres). It will also encompass 140,000 square feet (13,000 square metres) of commercial room.


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The venture backer is JDS Development Group, whom Shop is operating with on yet another super-tall tower: 111 West 57th Street, a condominium tower in midtown Manhattan. Scheduled to be finished in 2017, the Manhattan developing will rise 1,438 feet (438 metres).

Although slender, the Brooklyn tower will be wider in size than the Manhattan skyscraper.

“Our calculations indicate a preliminary ratio of approximately 12:1,” wrote NIMBY of the Brooklyn task. “Whilst which is double the width of 111 West 57th Street, it will nevertheless rank among the skinniest towers in New York, particularly in Brooklyn.”

New York is encountering a boom in luxury housing projects, like a series of super-tall residential towers that are now below construction in Manhattan. Architect Steven Holl took issue with the towers in an Viewpoint piece for Dezeen, stating that “architecture with a sense of social objective is turning out to be increasingly unusual” in New York.

Founded in 1996, Shop has more and more scored higher-profile commissions in current years. Recent projects by the company contain a new campus for Uber in San Francisco and a new tech district in Miami designed in collaboration with the Dutch landscape company West 8.


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