Brooklyn Army Terminal
April 30th, 2008 -
The Brooklyn Army Terminal was built in 1919 and designed by architect Cass Gilbert. At completion, it was 5 million square feet in size and covered 97 acres of Bay Ridge waterfront. It was used during WWII to ship out over 3 million troops, including Elvis. Today it is owned by New York City and used by over 70 tenants. Like Bush Terminal to the north and the Bay Ridge freight tracks directly south, the Army Terminal is managed by the NYEDC, a corporation responsible for much of the recent redevelopment of New York City's waterfront.
4 comments:
Great stuff Nate - I've been meaning to check that place out for some time. Looks pretty killer!
Back in the early 80's there was a huge artist performance in this space with exhibitions everywhere and a vocal performance with Meredith Monk which we all sang from the balconies different vowel sounds in random pattern bursts. Wild day. I will look for the program and try to reproduce it.
I work here (building B)...it truly is a massive space...I didn't know about the performance here. This layout, especially the atrium in building B (where it sounds like Monk was) could lend itself to some amazing ideas...
lines, curves, shadows.. its pretty amazing once you caught this on camera. the interpretation and the creativity really comes out. its really nice.
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