Once-Future Office

Brooklyn Commons

Defining Downtown Brooklyn’s back yard

Wayfinding

Estimated completion: 2023 | Collaborator: Field Operations

Coined “Brooklyn’s backyard,” the Commons is a vibrant destination for business, education, dining, and year-round public programming in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn. We created a system of wayfinding that considers the site’s multiple access points and orients visitors and community members around the campus and its revitalized public spaces. The signage system greets and directs with delightful and welcoming monoliths and supergraphic directionals. Its warm material palette draws upon Field Operations’ new landscape design and existing post-modern architecture.

once-future office brooklyn commons landscape
once-future office brooklyn commons pylon
once-future office brooklyn commons pylon detail
once-future office brooklyn commons map

Clear wayfinding considers the site’s multiple access points.

once-future office brooklyn commons wayfinding
once-future office brooklyn commons 1 MTC
once-future office brooklyn commons 2 MTC
once-future office brooklyn commons 3 MTC
once-future office brooklyn commons 2 MTC pole
once-future office brooklyn commons signage

Renderings courtesy Field Operations and Brookfield Properties