LOT-EK, NIGEL SYLVESTER’s BMX studio

NS87 - Nigel Sylvester's BMX recording studio

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NS87 - Nigel Sylvester's BMX recording studio

a thick square redefines a Red Hook warehouse connecting work, music recording, and BMX events

type

workplace exhibition/event design

concept

2010

location

Red Hook, Brooklyn

client

Nigel Sylvester / AFROPUNK

size

10,000 SF

awards

concept & vision

we insert a square of connected containers, a loop, within an abandoned warehouse to activate it independently of its structure.

program & use

the continuous space within the container square houses the work areas of AFROPUNK music festival, their recording studios and shops with merch. It is lifted to the top of the bike ramps to grant viewing of the action, as the center space within the square is fitted with moveable wood ramps for BMX events

impact & significance

we celebrate the existing warehouse and its incredible space and wood roof structure. And we bring within it another material world and experience inserting yet another existing object and celebrating its own long, corridor-like volume and space

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WDDG headquarters