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The new kitchen-and-dining area connects to the living area and the rear yard.

Stone terrace steps

The pool house was designed to negotiate the terraced site.

View from pool

Aside from new dark exterior paint color, minor reconfiguration of windows and doors, and the removal of a screened porch, were the only modifications to the exterior.

Skylight

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom

Chris Boylen Photography

The East River waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge Park are indeed 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge’s best attributes. They’re the elements that drove almost every aspect of its design. "We didn’t want this hotel to be the next hipster spot," El Hadidy says. "We wanted it to be of the place that surrounds it; for it to look and feel like it has always belonged right here in Brooklyn. We wanted it to be of nature and as timeless as possible."

Inside, the hotel’s lobby is marked by a massive living wall created by landscape architecture firm Harrison Green. Many of the furnishings for the space are made by Brooklyn artisans and were crafted using locally sourced materials. "There’s a large pine table made with reclaimed pine beams from the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn," says designer Waad El Hadidy, of Starwood Capital Group, the company that developed the hotel with Toll Brothers City Living. "The art piece behind the reception desk is by Brooklyn artist Jarrod Beck. It’s made with rubber roof membrane he collected in Utica, New York, after a tornado destroyed homes there in 2014." Another artwork—comprised of 6,000 pounds of hammered and shaped obsidian rocks and hand-dyed, rust-colored rope—by Rachel Mica Weiss is situated near the bottom of the lobby’s main staircase.