"Commissioners told the design team to make further adjustments to the revised plans for the Hanson Place Methodist Church addition. Fort Greene's neo-Gothic Hanson Place Methodist Church is on track to become the base of a more than 20-story apartment tower, with the Landmarks Preservation Commission indicating general support for the concept. But at its meeting this week, commissioners again sent the design team back to refine the proposal, saying more changes are needed before it can move forward."
"Dan Kaplan of FXCollaborative Architects and Drew Hartley of Acheson Doyle Partners Architects presented the revised plans. Kaplan said the changes were intended to bring the church building back to prominence while creating a tower massing that is sympathetic to the historic structure and appropriate within the district. The updated design reduces the tower's height by 30 feet and its bulk by 12 percent."
Hanson Place Methodist Church in Fort Greene is proposed to be adaptively reused as the base of a more-than-20-story apartment tower at 144 St. Felix Street in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District. The Landmarks Preservation Commission expressed general support for the concept while directing the design team to make additional changes to height, massing, and the transition between the historic church and the new tower. Revised plans reduced height and bulk, preserved the northernmost bay, simplified the Hanson Place facade, set the building farther back on St. Felix, and retained more historic church fabric. Designers emphasized restoring the church’s prominence and creating a sympathetic tower massing.
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