Architect and developer Alloy has released images of its glass-clad Brooklyn skyscraper, which has a "wedding cake-like" shape and will reportedly run on all-electric power.
The residential skyscraper, called 505 State Street after its location in downtown Brooklyn, has already topped out at 482 feet tall (146 metres).
With 44 storeys, the skyscraper is sited on a triangular block where three Brooklyn streets converge. This gives it a wedge-like plan, similar to the iconic Flat Iron Building in Manhattan. The majority of its face is clad in glass and aluminium.
Alloy is nearing completion on its triangular skyscraper in Brooklyn. Photo by Selvon Nef
"The site itself is triangular, and weirdly enough, if you draw the Flat Iron floor plan on our site, it's almost identical. The heights are very similar," Alloy design director Ben Meade told Dezeen, noting that the structure is the studio's first "major ground-up skyscraper". "It's a plan that references old school architecture, a wedding cake-like stack."
On one side, the tower is flat. On the other side, it steps back from the street to maximise views of downtown Manhattan over the East River and to cohere with the street-level brownstone buildings and historic architecture, like the historic Williamsburg Savings Bank tower.
It has a glass- and aluminium-clad facade. Photo by Pavel Bendov
In order to blend into the surrounding architecture as seamlessly as possible, the bottom three f...