We spotted a permit application, filed in April, to renovate the former Tung Fa Noodle Factory and convert it to a mixed-use development with a rooftop penthouse. The plan, which was disapproved, proposed an eight-story building with 65 units. DXA studio is the architect of record.
DXA studio will restore the exterior of the 1914 building, adding a 6,000-square-foot “photovoltaic array” (i.e. a bunch of solar panels) to generate electricity for future tenants and a 5,000-square-foot landscaped terrace to help control storm water and provide thermal insulation, according to the design firm’s site.
The residences will range from studios to three-bedrooms, and the conversion’s look will “draw upon the industrial aesthetic of Williamsburg and attempt to integrate elements of the work of the artists that populated it over the past twenty years.”
Developer Mona Gora bought the building for $12 million in 2005, The Real Deal reported. “We intend to do something not done before in Williamsburg,” Gora told TRD last July, adding that the development will have a 50Kw solar canopy visible from the Williamsburg Bridge.
Check out these canopy-happy images from DXA below:
