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Bushwick Generator in Brooklyn, New York
Nov 5, 2020
Bushwick Generator
Architects: HWKN
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States, USA

HWKN?s Bushwick Generator is a new office campus that embodies the neighborhood’s energy and tradition of disruptive entrepreneurship outside and in. With it, Matthias Hollwich and his team at HWKN designed a bold new building that gives shape to the area’s creative spirit and relentless drive, offering a hub for the innovative companies that call Brooklyn home.

Bushwick?s dynamism is rooted in its history as a manufacturing district, so Hollwich chose to keep the light-industrial buildings that existed on site and use them as part of the new building?s foundation. To this base, Hollwich adds a sculptural, gem-like volume in brick that introduces a vertical focal point in the neighborhood and encloses 400,000 SF of state-of-the-art workspace. By maintaining and building atop the existing urban fabric, The Generator injects new life into the context while preserving the distinctive grit that lends the area its character and edge. The result is a new icon for Bushwick that reimagines the neighborhood?s traditional forms and materials in forward-looking geometries, embracing the area?s heritage while paving the way for its future.
The Generator truly is a campus, an amalgam of community, novelty, and authenticity. It is the antithesi...