An interesting five-story red brick condo building is going up on a relatively low-slung Williamsburg block, standing out from its neighbors with a curved and textured facade.
Surrounded by a green construction fence, the three-family condo building at 76 North 8th St. references 19th century brick buildings in a modern way with a distinctive red brick facade that curves inward on lower floors and straight at the top. The tall windows and massing fit in with nearby townhouses, and offset bricks create a three-dimensional diagonal pattern across the facade.
The subtle design contrasts with the modern gray brick building next door at 74 North 8th St. and complements the 19th century townhouse on the other side at number 72.
Designed by Pliskin Architecture, also known as panyc, the under-construction building is 50 feet tall with five stories and three apartments, according to permits. The project is one of Pliskin’s first ground-up builds, according to the architect’s website. It includes one triplex apartment, one floor-through unit, and a duplex with roof access, the site says.
When a reporter dropped by the site on Thanksgiving week, no workers were visible at the site but materials had been recently covered and construction noises were audible. Behind the construction fence, the ground floor is not yet finished.
City records show the condo building is being developed by LTNG through Largo 76N8 LLC. LTNG, a Williamsburg-based development company previously known as Largo, purchased the site with its single-story garage in 2022 for $3 million, records show.
A 1940s tax photo shows the site was once occupied by a two-story wood-frame house, but by the 1980s the house had been replaced by a large single-story garage that also took up the neighboring site at 76 North 8th St.
A demolition permit for the garage was issued in June 2021, and the permit for the new building was issued to LTNG in October 2021.
LTNG and panyc are behind a number of other residential developments in north Brooklyn with similarly interesting brick treatments, including at 584 Leonard St., 170 Java St., and 151 Freeman St. in Greenpoint. The developer has its own subsidiary construction management arm, Trave, according to LTNG’s website. While Compass is listed as the sales team for the new development, listings are yet to go live.
This story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper’s sister site Brownstoner.
