In the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn, 1 Park Point fosters a sense of community with a new hybrid building that brings together a mix of ground floor uses and residential units. The building relates to its large, irregularly shaped site, framing the curve of Machate Circle, and facing a grand entrance of Prospect Park. Across the building's expansive façade, a vertical expression of masonry piers and horizontal masonry spandrels breaks the rigidity of a typical grid, while notches and open corners highlight the location of entrances on the building's façade.
The building's nearly 400,000 square feet includes a mix of uses, each with entrances on different street frontages. Retail and event spaces span the ground floor and cellar's prime frontage along a curving façade that faces Prospect Park, and continue along the Coney Island Avenue retail corridor. A central courtyard creates a ground floor garden framed by a U-shaped floorplan on residential floors above, providing residents with ample light and air. Residences include an affordable housing component with efficient one- and two-bedroom layouts organized around a double-loaded corridor, with views out over Brooklyn or inward toward the deep landscaped courtyard. The mixed-use building also features below-grade parking.
