Avdoo & Partners Development launch sales and near completion at the Bergen

Brooklyn, NY Avdoo & Partners Development revealed their newest project in Boerum Hill. Bergen is set to launch sales in spring 2024. Avdoo tapped architecture studio Taller Frida Escobedo to conceptualize the project’s design. The firm was awarded the architectural design of the seven-story, 209,000 s/f property, which will be the firm’s first condominium project, happening concurrent with Escobedo’s work on the new addition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Bergen will offer 105 condominium homes ranging from studios to five bedrooms, across 49 unit types. The interiors will be designed by AD100 design firm Workstead. Aiming for a truly indoor-outdoor feel, 75% of the units will include private outdoor space and a residents-only park conceived by master planning and landscape designer, DXA Studio and Patrick Cullina. Taller Frida Escobedo worked closely with DXA Studio on planning for the project and through their collaborative exchange of ideas, developed the architectural concept for two residential wings and a transparent central amenity volume with openings arrayed along an undulating façade. GF55 is the architect-of-record for the building. 

The building will feature over 14,500 s/f of interior amenities housed across four levels accessible via a cylindrical totem stair, with a design that allows for natural sunlight. In addition to indoor amenities offering an array of services from health and wellness to entertainment and the arts, residents will have access to 12,000 s/f of exterior amenities, including “Dean Park” and two common rooftop parks designed by DXA and Patrick Cullina. Parking, storage and bike storage will be available for purchase.

The building is expected to reach completion in 2025, becoming a new architectural landmark for the city. 

“We’re inspired by Frida’s strong design vision for Bergen,” said Shlomi Avdoo, principal and founder of Avdoo & Partners. “She’s envisioned an elegant addition to the neighborhood that is rooted in her keen sensibility of material and scale.”

“It has been an incredibly collaborative process and sincere pleasure working with Avdoo, DXA and Workstead on this project,” said Escobedo. “From conceptualizing the design to the last detail, we felt a responsibility to approach Bergen in a way which would be respectful of the character of the neighborhood and the surrounding environment while creating something new that would stand the test of time.” 

Bergen is designed to complement the neighborhood fabric and celebrate light and air through its angled façade and custom handmade blocks that vary in size and degrees of opacity. Escobedo leveraged the building’s orientation to maximize natural light from the east and west, creating a cohesive rhythm of scale, materiality and color, with porosity and transparency woven throughout the building’s design. At its center, the “Glass House”, a curtain-walled rectangular volume, acts as the building’s entry point from both Dean and Bergen St.’s, and connects both of the residential wings of the building.