Dock 72
Dock 72
Space, Styling, Curation, Storytelling, Product, Print, Creative Direction
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Year
2019
The amenity spaces celebrate and respect the rich history within the Navy Yard itself, while simultaneously supporting the local artist and makers community so prevalent with the borough of Brooklyn today.
A large research effort began in 2017, scheduling studio visits and meeting artists and fabricators throughout the city, seeing who might be a good fit for the project. This resulted in partnering with a handful of local fabricators in Brooklyn to produce a custom furniture collection, four artists to create large scale murals at the entrance procession, as well as local mirror fabricators, Bower Studios, to create a customized collection of mirrors for the conference center.
Each of the muralists and artisans naturally found inspiration within the Brooklyn Navy Yard itself: sun-faded colors, textures, piles of materials, and ship markings. This created a surprising consistency within all of the work specifically created for this space; one that can only be found at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Expressway
Kristin Texeira
Two Sailors at Sunny's on a Rainy Day
Dan Funderburgh
“I like the idea that this whole navy yard was military and then industrial and now it’s creative and technology, there’s a bunch of different themes tangled up and that’s reoccurring in my work because it occurs in New York; just a tangled knot of cultures and ideas.”
Greg Lamarche
Made from collaged-typography and imagery such as advertisements and signs mostly from 1940s and 1950s era Brooklyn, the heyday of the Navy Yard.
Bryce Wymer
Highlighting the collaborative nature of the Navy Yard, Wymer’s mural features workers putting the final touches on a ship before a tropical storm rolls in; main figure in the scene is female, to honor the large workforce of women who have worked at the Navy Yard.
Design Firm
Fogarty Finger
Awards
IIDA Best of Best Awards, 2022
Winner, Best of Workplace
International Design Awards, 2022
Silver Winner, Interior Design – Commercial
Architizer A+ Awards, 2021
Jury Winner, Coworking Space
Interior Design Best of Year Awards, 2021
Finalist, Commercial Lobby + Amenity Space
World Design Awards, 2021
Winner, Public Building Interior Built
NYCxDESIGN Awards, 2020
Finalist, Commercial Lobby / Amenity Space Category
Featured Artists
Dan Funderburgh
Kristin Texeira
Greg Lamarche
Bryce Wymer
Bower Studios
Brooke Holm
Custom Furniture Partners
Armada NY
ZSD, Inc.
Photographer Credit
Connie Zhou (final)
Anna Ritsch (mural process)
Harrison Boyce (site photos of navy yard)
Mural: Kristin Texeira
Custom Furniture Design: Armada NY
Mural: Greg Lamarche
Custom Furniture Design: ZSD, Inc. + Armada NY
16th Floor: Conference Center
Custom Table: ZSD, Inc.
Table + Mirror: Bower Studios
Featured Artist: Brooke Holm
Custom Table: Armada NY
Approved Rendering, 2018
Mirror: Bower Studios
Table: Souda
Custom Mirror: Bower Studios