Residential skyscraper to share BAM-area block with new Shakespearean theater
Here’s the gleaming tower that will keep the Bard company.
Shakespeare’s new home in Downtown Brooklyn, the soon-to-open Theatre for a New Audience, will share its Ashland Place block with a 52-story skyscraper the Gotham Organization is constructing.
A first look at FXFOWLE Architects’ design for the glamorous BAM Cultural District rental-apartment building shows a slim, soaring tower with a crown on top and a broad two-floor “podium” on the bottom filled with stores, and offices for cultural institutions.