Exterior work is progressing on 2 Bushwick Avenue, a three-story commercial building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by ROART for EMC2 Bushwick LLC, which purchased the parcel for $2.2 million in 2014, the 12,655-square-foot structure will yield two levels of retail space and one level of office space. The property was formerly occupied by a gas station at the corner of Bushwick and Metropolitan Avenues.
Construction broke ground in the summer of 2022 and topped out last October, moving at a slower pace than typical for a project of its modest scope. Exterior work is now mostly complete above the ground floor, and recent photographs show the sweeping lines of the meandering façade of corrugated blue-gray metal paneling and contrasting flat surfaces of the floor-to-ceiling windows. Sidewalk scaffolding still obscures the first story.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Renderings for 2 Bushwick Avenue show the ground floor with a similar design scheme to the stories above, with the diagonal cut of the footprint following the outline of the L train tunnel beneath the property. The second level has an outdoor terrace beside the expansive ribbon windows, and another small terrace is positioned on the cantilevering point of the northwestern corner of the third story. The parapet is shown topped with a green roof and walking paths leading out from the egress bulkhead at the southwestern corner.
2 Bushwick Avenue. Designed by ROART.
2 Bushwick Avenue. Designed by ROART.
A metal mesh appears to cover the underside of the protruding surfaces surrounding the windows.
2 Bushwick Avenue. Designed by ROART.
The nearest subway from the development is the L train at the Graham Avenue station to the east.
2 Bushwick Avenue’s anticipated completion date was originally slated for this fall, as noted on site. However, sometime in the first half of 2025 seems plausible.
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Lightweight materials are increasingly being used in construction, which provides durability: Thanks.
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Wow talk about gentrification architecture
It’s a big improvement to what was there.
Buck Rogers comes to Bushwick..I like it.
It’s weird, totally out of place, very dark…and somehow very appealing? A bold choice that actually works.