Top row, left to right: 184 Kent Ave aka Austin Nichols Building, Schaefer Landing Residential Development (in conjunction w/ Gene Kaufman), 11 Broadway.
Bottom row, left to right: 55 Berry St, "Residential Condo Project" at 185-191 South 4th Street, 60 Broadway aka The Gretsch Building.
What do all these projects have in common? They were all designed by Karl Fischer Archtiects. Never mind that the Montreal-NYC firm has a staff of a little more than 30 people and mostly builds single family homes in wealthy Montreal boroughs, it's still getting a staggering amount of work in Williamsburg. As seems to be the case, a handful of mid-sized firms without much recognition are designing lots of huge, new residential buildings. Seems like there are a few architects that have been hired to transform Wburg-Gpoint.
Only half of these projects are new construction, the other half are residential conversions. Nonetheless, here are some dizzying figures of the extent of Fischer's work in CB1:
1.661 billion square feet = Total square footage of all projects
$279 million = construction costs
Note: I'm not positive that all of these projects were actually built or chosen to be built. Some I'm sure lost out to other designs/interest. It's still kinda funny though that such a small firm, straddling two nations would care so much to design 6+ major projects in one square mile of Brooklyn.
Tommorrow: Gene Kauffman
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