Pierhouse and 1 Hotel

A gateway to Brooklyn Bridge Park that merges landscape and development.

The Pierhouse development, a collaboration between Marvel, Toll Brothers, and Starwood Capital, encompasses 106 condominiums, a 195-key hotel, and additional retail spaces on the Brooklyn waterfront. It cleverly integrates public and private spaces, ensuring visibility and access to its extensive landscaping. With sustainability in focus, the development achieved LEED Gold 2009 New Construction status. Despite facing challenges, such as accommodating subway lines and adapting to post-Hurricane Sandy flood maps, Pierhouse successfully transformed a previously inaccessible warehouse site.

Connection between Furman Street and Brooklyn Bridge Park. © David Sundberg Esto
Interior of Pierhouse and 1 Hotel. © David Sundberg Esto
A neighborhood living room designed as part of the 1 Hotel lobby creates a comfortable place to stop with friends or on your own and affords different levels of interaction with the other guests.
Pierhouse Conceptual Sustainability Section. © Marvel

All residential units are floor-through with east and west exposures, providing natural ventilation that filters harbor breezes through the building from Park to Street.

The park extending into and up the building. © David Sundberg Esto
Public walkways connecting Furman Street and the park. © David Sundberg Esto
Landscape extends into and up the building allowing a connection with the natural environment.
This porosity continues at grade, where public walkways through the building connect Furman Street and the park.

"There's a real connection to the landscape and public space [at Pierhouse and 1 Hotel], and that's become so much of what we are."

Lissa So, Partner at Marvel
One of three public passageways through the buildings. © David Sundberg Esto
Residential terraces. © David Sundberg Esto
Residential terraces as seen from the roof. © David Sundberg Esto
Marvel designed Pierhouse to perform as an extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park—a verdant backdrop recalling the high, sandy bank of pre-colonial Brooklyn Heights.
The complex features green roofs and a variety of pathways to access the park.
Pierhouse as seen from Pier Two and the East River. © David Sundberg Esto
At 620,000-square-feet, the Pierhouse complex completes Pier 1’s transformation from marine terminal to public park, creating a new model of urban living and public/private partnership.

A gateway to Brooklyn Bridge Park that merges landscape and development.

The Pierhouse development, a collaboration between Marvel, Toll Brothers, and Starwood Capital, encompasses 106 condominiums, a 195-key hotel, and additional retail spaces on the Brooklyn waterfront. It cleverly integrates public and private spaces, ensuring visibility and access to its extensive landscaping. With sustainability in focus, the development achieved LEED Gold 2009 New Construction status. Despite facing challenges, such as accommodating subway lines and adapting to post-Hurricane Sandy flood maps, Pierhouse successfully transformed a previously inaccessible warehouse site.

2017DS43 Pierhouse II

The building opens up and provides direct connection between Furman Street and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Pierhouse

A neighborhood living room designed as part of the 1 Hotel lobby creates a comfortable place to stop with friends or on your own and affords different levels of interaction with the other guests.

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All residential units are floor-through with east and west exposures, providing natural ventilation that filters harbor breezes through the building from Park to Street.

Pierhouse

Landscape extends into and up the building allowing a connection with the natural environment.

Pierhouse

This porosity continues at grade, where public walkways through the building connect Furman Street and the park.

Pierhouse

Pierhouse integrates the built and natural environment to address the need for increased resiliency. In response to Superstorm Sandy, the design team amplified topography and landscape features to raise the building’s entry elevation by four feet while maintaining a vital connection to the park and street.

"There's a real connection to the landscape and public space [at Pierhouse and 1 Hotel], and that's become so much of what we are."

Lissa So, Partner at Marvel
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Pierhouse II

Marvel designed Pierhouse to perform as an extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park—a verdant backdrop recalling the high, sandy bank of pre-colonial Brooklyn Heights.

Pierhouse II

The complex features green roofs and a variety of pathways to access the park.

Pierhouse

At 620,000-square-feet, the Pierhouse complex completes Pier 1’s transformation from marine terminal to public park, creating a new model of urban living and public/private partnership.

Pierhouse and 1 Hotel

A gateway to Brooklyn Bridge Park that merges landscape and development.

The Pierhouse development, a collaboration between Marvel, Toll Brothers, and Starwood Capital, encompasses 106 condominiums, a 195-key hotel, and additional retail spaces on the Brooklyn waterfront. It cleverly integrates public and private spaces, ensuring visibility and access to its extensive landscaping. With sustainability in focus, the development achieved LEED Gold 2009 New Construction status. Despite facing challenges, such as accommodating subway lines and adapting to post-Hurricane Sandy flood maps, Pierhouse successfully transformed a previously inaccessible warehouse site.

Connection between Furman Street and Brooklyn Bridge Park. © David Sundberg Esto
Interior of Pierhouse and 1 Hotel. © David Sundberg Esto
A neighborhood living room designed as part of the 1 Hotel lobby creates a comfortable place to stop with friends or on your own and affords different levels of interaction with the other guests.
Pierhouse Conceptual Sustainability Section. © Marvel

All residential units are floor-through with east and west exposures, providing natural ventilation that filters harbor breezes through the building from Park to Street.

The park extending into and up the building. © David Sundberg Esto
Public walkways connecting Furman Street and the park. © David Sundberg Esto
Landscape extends into and up the building allowing a connection with the natural environment.
This porosity continues at grade, where public walkways through the building connect Furman Street and the park.

"There's a real connection to the landscape and public space [at Pierhouse and 1 Hotel], and that's become so much of what we are."

Lissa So, Partner at Marvel
One of three public passageways through the buildings. © David Sundberg Esto
Residential terraces. © David Sundberg Esto
Residential terraces as seen from the roof. © David Sundberg Esto
Marvel designed Pierhouse to perform as an extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park—a verdant backdrop recalling the high, sandy bank of pre-colonial Brooklyn Heights.
The complex features green roofs and a variety of pathways to access the park.
Pierhouse as seen from Pier Two and the East River. © David Sundberg Esto
At 620,000-square-feet, the Pierhouse complex completes Pier 1’s transformation from marine terminal to public park, creating a new model of urban living and public/private partnership.

A gateway to Brooklyn Bridge Park that merges landscape and development.

The Pierhouse development, a collaboration between Marvel, Toll Brothers, and Starwood Capital, encompasses 106 condominiums, a 195-key hotel, and additional retail spaces on the Brooklyn waterfront. It cleverly integrates public and private spaces, ensuring visibility and access to its extensive landscaping. With sustainability in focus, the development achieved LEED Gold 2009 New Construction status. Despite facing challenges, such as accommodating subway lines and adapting to post-Hurricane Sandy flood maps, Pierhouse successfully transformed a previously inaccessible warehouse site.

2017DS43 Pierhouse II

The building opens up and provides direct connection between Furman Street and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Pierhouse

A neighborhood living room designed as part of the 1 Hotel lobby creates a comfortable place to stop with friends or on your own and affords different levels of interaction with the other guests.

1212 Pierhouse & 1Hotel N408 medium

All residential units are floor-through with east and west exposures, providing natural ventilation that filters harbor breezes through the building from Park to Street.

Pierhouse

Landscape extends into and up the building allowing a connection with the natural environment.

Pierhouse

This porosity continues at grade, where public walkways through the building connect Furman Street and the park.

Pierhouse

Pierhouse integrates the built and natural environment to address the need for increased resiliency. In response to Superstorm Sandy, the design team amplified topography and landscape features to raise the building’s entry elevation by four feet while maintaining a vital connection to the park and street.

"There's a real connection to the landscape and public space [at Pierhouse and 1 Hotel], and that's become so much of what we are."

Lissa So, Partner at Marvel
1212 Pierhouse & 1Hotel N13
Pierhouse II

Marvel designed Pierhouse to perform as an extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park—a verdant backdrop recalling the high, sandy bank of pre-colonial Brooklyn Heights.

Pierhouse II

The complex features green roofs and a variety of pathways to access the park.

Pierhouse

At 620,000-square-feet, the Pierhouse complex completes Pier 1’s transformation from marine terminal to public park, creating a new model of urban living and public/private partnership.

Pierhouse and 1 Hotel

A gateway to Brooklyn Bridge Park that merges landscape and development.

The Pierhouse development, a collaboration between Marvel, Toll Brothers, and Starwood Capital, encompasses 106 condominiums, a 195-key hotel, and additional retail spaces on the Brooklyn waterfront. It cleverly integrates public and private spaces, ensuring visibility and access to its extensive landscaping. With sustainability in focus, the development achieved LEED Gold 2009 New Construction status. Despite facing challenges, such as accommodating subway lines and adapting to post-Hurricane Sandy flood maps, Pierhouse successfully transformed a previously inaccessible warehouse site.

Connection between Furman Street and Brooklyn Bridge Park. © David Sundberg Esto
Interior of Pierhouse and 1 Hotel. © David Sundberg Esto
A neighborhood living room designed as part of the 1 Hotel lobby creates a comfortable place to stop with friends or on your own and affords different levels of interaction with the other guests.
Pierhouse Conceptual Sustainability Section. © Marvel

All residential units are floor-through with east and west exposures, providing natural ventilation that filters harbor breezes through the building from Park to Street.

The park extending into and up the building. © David Sundberg Esto
Public walkways connecting Furman Street and the park. © David Sundberg Esto
Landscape extends into and up the building allowing a connection with the natural environment.
This porosity continues at grade, where public walkways through the building connect Furman Street and the park.

"There's a real connection to the landscape and public space [at Pierhouse and 1 Hotel], and that's become so much of what we are."

Lissa So, Partner at Marvel
One of three public passageways through the buildings. © David Sundberg Esto
Residential terraces. © David Sundberg Esto
Residential terraces as seen from the roof. © David Sundberg Esto
Marvel designed Pierhouse to perform as an extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park—a verdant backdrop recalling the high, sandy bank of pre-colonial Brooklyn Heights.
The complex features green roofs and a variety of pathways to access the park.
Pierhouse as seen from Pier Two and the East River. © David Sundberg Esto
At 620,000-square-feet, the Pierhouse complex completes Pier 1’s transformation from marine terminal to public park, creating a new model of urban living and public/private partnership.

A gateway to Brooklyn Bridge Park that merges landscape and development.

The Pierhouse development, a collaboration between Marvel, Toll Brothers, and Starwood Capital, encompasses 106 condominiums, a 195-key hotel, and additional retail spaces on the Brooklyn waterfront. It cleverly integrates public and private spaces, ensuring visibility and access to its extensive landscaping. With sustainability in focus, the development achieved LEED Gold 2009 New Construction status. Despite facing challenges, such as accommodating subway lines and adapting to post-Hurricane Sandy flood maps, Pierhouse successfully transformed a previously inaccessible warehouse site.

2017DS43 Pierhouse II

The building opens up and provides direct connection between Furman Street and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Pierhouse

A neighborhood living room designed as part of the 1 Hotel lobby creates a comfortable place to stop with friends or on your own and affords different levels of interaction with the other guests.

1212 Pierhouse & 1Hotel N408 medium

All residential units are floor-through with east and west exposures, providing natural ventilation that filters harbor breezes through the building from Park to Street.

Pierhouse

Landscape extends into and up the building allowing a connection with the natural environment.

Pierhouse

This porosity continues at grade, where public walkways through the building connect Furman Street and the park.

Pierhouse

Pierhouse integrates the built and natural environment to address the need for increased resiliency. In response to Superstorm Sandy, the design team amplified topography and landscape features to raise the building’s entry elevation by four feet while maintaining a vital connection to the park and street.

"There's a real connection to the landscape and public space [at Pierhouse and 1 Hotel], and that's become so much of what we are."

Lissa So, Partner at Marvel
1212 Pierhouse & 1Hotel N13
Pierhouse II

Marvel designed Pierhouse to perform as an extension of Brooklyn Bridge Park—a verdant backdrop recalling the high, sandy bank of pre-colonial Brooklyn Heights.

Pierhouse II

The complex features green roofs and a variety of pathways to access the park.

Pierhouse

At 620,000-square-feet, the Pierhouse complex completes Pier 1’s transformation from marine terminal to public park, creating a new model of urban living and public/private partnership.

Location

Brooklyn, NY

Client

Toll Brothers and Starwood Capital

Typology

Size

621,000 SF

Design Team

Jonathan Marvel, Guido Hartray, Dennis Vermeulen, Andrew Torres, JS Yong, Tom Baker, Miyun Kang, Shane Neufeld, Kyle May, Caitlin Swaim, Sean Gaffney, John Hallock, Mark Thompson, Jennifer Bunsa, Molly Calvani

Awards

Winner of 5 industry awards including the AIA National Housing Award. AIA National Housing Awards: Multifamily Category, AIA Brooklyn-Queens Design Merit Award, AIA New York State Design Award, IESNYC Lumen Award, Award of Merit, Building Brooklyn Awards: National Grid Award for Energy Efficiency

Consultants

Dagher Engineering: Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP) Engineer; DeSimone Consulting Engineers: Structural Engineer; AKRF: Acoustical Consultant; Gilsanz Murray Steficek: Envelope Consultant; Langan: Civil Engineer; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Landscape; Marvel Architects: Interior Design for Pierhouse Condo; INC Architecture and Design: Interior Design for 1Hotel; Lighting Workshop: Lighting Consultant; Deployed Technologies: Low Voltage Consultant; Clevenger Frable La Vallee: Food Service; Hudson Meridian Construction Group: Contractor;