Brooklyn Heights Townhouses

Commissioned by a private developer, we designed a pair of new single-family rowhouses on one of the few remaining vacant lots in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. The 50-foot wide site was divided into two unequal parcels—27.5 and 22.5 feet—prompting a “Mansion House” strategy in which the two private residences read as a single, unified architectural composition. Set on an eclectic stretch of Hicks Street, the project responds to a streetscape shaped by Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne rowhouses, historic carriage houses and the neighborhoods rigorously neoclassical firehouse.