Construction Update: Greenpoint Landing Block D
Southeast corner of Block D from West Street.
Greenpoint Landing’s fourth market rate site is Block D, a two tower development by Brookfield Properties that will offer 745 residential rental units. Designed by Jason Long of OMA New York, the 30 and 40-story towers feature a massing that recalls a ziggurat and its inverse.
Southeast corner of Block D.
Superstructure has topped out on both towers, led by concrete contractor Highbury Concrete. The form of the taller southwest tower features four inverted cantilever phases on the 14th, 21st, 28th, and 36th floor that extend the cantilever to a total of 50 feet from the base structure to the top floors. At each cantilevered phase, engineered steel truss platforms were installed to support and take the load of the cantilever during construction. Once the platforms are removed, the cantilevered slabs are supported by sloping columns designed to transfer the load back to the structure and hung columns reinforced with multi strand post tension to support the structure suspended from above, like a suspension bridge. The post tension multi strand reinforcing, protected by plastic sleeves, is pulled at the top of each column to bring them into tension to support the cantilever.
South elevation of the two towers of Block D.
The top structure of the southwest tower.
Close-up of the precast facade panels on the south facade of both towers.
Precast concrete panels with 8 foot square windows will clad the towers and are currently being installed on both towers. The precast panels feature angled planes that change orientation with each block of setbacks and cantilevers.
Close-up of the precast facade panels.
South elevation of both towers.
North facades of Block D.
Looking up at the north facades of Block D.
The bridge connecting both tower.
Close-up of the cantilevered structure of the southwest tower.
The towers of Greenpoint Landing, from Block D (far right) to Block G (far left).
Northwest corner of Block D.
North facades of Block D from Hunters Point South Park.
Looking up at the south facades of Block D.
Pouring the ring beams at the southwest tower.
Forming the ring beams with rebar on the southwest tower.
The top floors of the northeast tower.
Southwest corner of the northeast tower.
An upper floor at the southwest tower, looking to the northeast tower.
View of the Manhattan skyline from a residential floor at the southwest tower.
View of Hunters Point South from a residential floor at the southwest tower.
Looking up at the cantilever of the south tower (left) and the north tower (right).
The two towers are linked by a bridge that contains a pool and fitness center with Manhattan skyline views.
West facade of the northeast tower and bridge.
Underneath the connecting bridge.
Northwest corner of Block D.
The towers of Greenpoint Landing.
Greenpoint Landing Block D (right) and the towers at Hunters Point South (left).
Architect: OMA New York with Beyer Blinder Belle; Structural Engineer: DeSimone Consulting Engineers; MEP and LEED: Cosentini Associates; Facade: Thornton Tomasetti; Waterfront Landscape Architect: James Corner Field Operations; Interior and Landscape Architect: Marmol Radziner; Concrete: Highbury Concrete; Developers: Brookfield Property Partners, Park Tower Group; Program: Residential, Retail, Park; Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.
