"Local studio Commoncraft has used a cantilevered volume to curve 545 Metropolitan over its neighbours, navigating the narrow Brooklyn site in order to provide more floor space. Located on Williamsburg's busy Metropolitan Avenue just across from the Lorimer L subway station, 545 Metropolitan is a six-storey mixed-use building that contains apartments, ground-level commercial space and terraces on its backside and roof. The building is wrapped in a black stucco finish, which contains a mica chip to give it a subtle glimmer, and features rows of slim rectangular windows on its front side, punctuated by a single "inverted arch" window."
"Its volume is extended towards its west side into a cantilever and in a tiered fashion along its backside. Its first, commercial floor extends to the back of the site, where it's covered in a row of skylights. Commoncraft co-founder Tony-Saba Shiber told Dezeen that the unusual shape was informed by site restrictions that required the studio to get creative with the project's Floor Area Ratio (FAR), or the relationship of its available total square footage to the footprint of its site."
545 Metropolitan is a six-storey mixed-use building on Williamsburg's Metropolitan Avenue with apartments, ground-floor commercial space and terraces at the rear and roof. The building uses a westward cantilever and tiered rear massing to increase usable floor area on a narrow Brooklyn lot. The facade is finished in black stucco with mica chip for subtle glimmer and features slim rectangular windows punctuated by a single inverted-arch window. The first commercial floor extends to the rear beneath a row of skylights. Site constraints including FAR limits, an adjacent three-storey building within the same zoning lot, R6B zoning and proximity to a subway station shaped the form.
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