Photograph courtesy of DD Reps–Donna Dotan
If you happen to’ve strolled previous it, you will have spotted the vintage traces of the modernist house tucked a number of the brick rental constructions and ancient brownstones in Brooklyn’s Park Slope community. The outstanding space at 77 Prospect Position, given its present shape by way of architect Phillipe Baumann in 2004, used to be as soon as a single-story carriage space, inbuilt 1886. Baumann’s renovations integrated a brand new higher flooring, a 30-foot skylight, and a dazzling nice room that opens onto an out of doors patio with a sizzling bath; customized architectural interiors incorporate heat picket, glass, metal, and plaster. The lovely house final modified palms in 2017 for $6.6 million; it’s now again available on the market for $7.9 million.
6sqft up to now featured this notable living, recounting the tale of the way it used to be bought by way of the Brooklyn Union Gasoline corporate in 1972 to be used in an alternate power experiment, serving as the corporate’s display space, with experimental gasoline cells on its Apollo spacecraft-inspired roof.
Baumann’s web site explains how a metal body used to be fabricated, then craned into position above the prevailing roof, taking into account the development of a brand new higher flooring whilst irritating the construction underneath as low as imaginable. The brand new flooring used to be offset 3 toes from the development subsequent door in an effort to permit gentle to go into from underneath. Structural common sense, spatial readability, and light-weight, aided by way of fabrics like metal beams, plank flooring, plate glass, and plaster outline the development’s design.
The 30-foot-wide semi-detached townhouse seems to have won a up to date renovation, giving its 5,300 sq. toes of internal area a sleeker, extra fresh really feel. Its primary flooring is framed by way of wide-plank pine flooring and 15-foot-high cedar ceilings. A 30-foot skylight parallels the lounge wall.
Lit by way of a west-facing wall of home windows, an open chef’s kitchen brings in combination the principle flooring residing areas. Options come with Pietra Cardosa worktops and customized millwork; home equipment come with a Miele double oven, 36-inch induction oven and dishwasher, a SubZero fridge, a Broan vary hood, and Kessebohmer sliding cabinets.
The house’s number one bed room suite spans the width of the home, with a wall of home windows and customized wardrobes with door-activated lighting fixtures. A sublime skylit en-suite bathtub has a glass-wrapped bathe with a integrated bench, double sinks, and mirror-clad partitions.
Up a large staircase is a brilliant room boasting 15-foot ceilings, 4 exposures, and floating bookshelves. A rotating wall results in a powder room and a 30-foot-wide glass wall.
A novel street-facing balcony used to be created within the architect’s signature fashionable taste. This wonderful rooftop patio is a real city oasis with outside seating and lovely perspectives.
Backpedal on the lawn degree are two extra spacious bedrooms with partitions of home windows and massive customized closets. A double-sized walk-in bathe floats totally enclosed in glass. Geometric-patterned wall tile enhances the herbal tones of stone ground and counter tops.
Towards the entrance of the house is a comfortable fashionable media room whole with customized temper lighting fixtures, and a house fitness center. This one-of-a-kind Brooklyn townhouse additionally has sun panels put in for power potency, making use of sunshine each in and out.
[Listing details: 77 Prospect Place by Matthew Scott and Abdul Muid of Ivey North]
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Pictures courtesy of DD Reps–Donna Dotan
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77 Prospect Position, Trendy Properties, Philippe Baumann
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Park Slope
