505 State Street – The Alloy Block, Downtown

505 State Street is the first tower of Phase 1 of The Alloy Block, a megaproject that includes residential, educational, office, cultural, and retail spaces, and promises to be the landmark of Downtown Brooklyn. The mixed-use forty-four-story tower features New York’s first all-electric, or fossil fuel-independent, residences at 505 State Street comprising 440 market-rate and affordable homes and 30,000 sq ft of retail space along Flatbush Avenue.

Clad in a unitized curtain wall with triple glazed units, the tower’s tectonic qualities are accentuated by black zinc rainscreen panels whose profiles sweep along the tower’s height, creating a play of light and shadow on an urban scale. The tower’s acute corners, large panel sizes, and material variety presented a particular challenge in detail design and construction sequencing. Front consulted on the project from schematic design through construction administration.