Galerie

GALERIE is an 11-story building that features such a curated, rotating art exhibit, an indoor pool that opens onto a landscaped central courtyard, a library with books selected from the MoMA bookstore, a pet spa, and an exapnsive roof terrace.

GALERIE's facade of solid grids of steel and glass were driven by the area’s turn-of-the-century warehouses; punch windows are a reflection of the area’s prewar brick apartments; curtain walls recall contemporary waterfront towers.

“The references help anchor the architecture in deeper ground,” says Eran Chen. “If architecture could start telling a story, and the story is the story of a place, then potentially that becomes contextual.”