A 244-room, 440-foot high hotel is in the pipeline for the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. The hotel is being design to earn LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, according to Carolina Botero, a designer at Oppenheim Architecture + Design, the property’s architect.
The hotel is still in the early stages of development and will be completed by 2015. Key sustainability features will include vertical access wind turbines, green roof, rainwater harvesting and reuse, gray water treatment and reuse, high-performance glazing, and geothermal and solar power.
It will offer views of Manhattan and be located adjacent to the Williamsburg Bridge and the historic Williamsburg Savings Bank and will consist of “three dramatically proportioned, rectilinear volumes of varied height and materiality.”Adds Botero, “Soaring high above the neighborhood, with the tallest tower reaching 440 feet high, the hotel will become the third pillar of the bridge.”
