New York-based studios Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group have converted a 19th-century train warehouse into the headquarters for a charitable organisation in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighbourhood.
The studios transformed a block-long train repair shop in Brooklyn into a headquarters and distribution centre for the charitable organisation City Harvest, turning it into a bright and open space by modernising the original structure.
Ennead Architects worked with Rockwell Group to design a headquarters for City Harvest Ennead Architects led the external and internal redesign while Rockwell Group designed an event space and a test kitchen for the facility, which is called the Cohen Community Food Rescue Center.
The historic elements of the facade were kept largely intact by the redesign, with most of the interventions occurring in the long warehouse-like spaces of the interior.
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