架构师提供的文本描述。帝国商店是布鲁克林从衰败的工业强国转变为一个不断增长的创意部门的象征。这一屡获殊荣的混合用途开发将DUMBO滨水区的一个19世纪空置仓库重新设想为一个当代创意工作场所和社区中心。这座450，000 sf建筑群的改造为布鲁克林新兴的技术三角提供了急需的办公空间，并为社区带来了零售、餐饮、公共空间和展览画廊。适应性再利用的运动庆祝和保留了建筑物在滨水区的巨大存在，同时改善了DUMBO的城市织物和85英亩的布鲁克林桥公园之间的流通。

Text description provided by the architects. Empire Stores is emblematic of Brooklyn’s transformation from lapsed industrial powerhouse into a growing creative sector. This award-winning mixed-use development reimagines a vacant, 19th century warehouse on the DUMBO waterfront as a contemporary creative workplace and community hub. The conversion of this 450,000sf complex provides Brooklyn’s burgeoning Tech Triangle with much-needed office space, and brings retail, dining, public space, and exhibition galleries to the neighborhood. The campaign of adaptive re-use celebrates and preserves the building’s monumental presence on the waterfront, while improving circulation between DUMBO’s urban fabric and the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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建筑干预改变了这座曾经是社区和公园之间的屏障的巨大建筑，变成了重新连接这两个区域的公共门户。从砖石结构中凿出的通道在水街和滨水区之间创造了一个行人通道。一个四层楼高的露天庭院，从建筑中心挖掘出来，为建筑租户、社区成员和公园游客提供了一个身临其境的公共空间。院子里挂着玻璃幕墙，把现代的和历史性的建筑融合在一起，让人们看到这栋建筑的条纹：购物和一个公共美食广场，二楼是布鲁克林历史协会的画廊，上面是多层开放式办公空间。

Architectural intervention transformed this massive building, once a barrier standing between the neighborhood and the park, into a public portal that reconnects the two zones. A passageway carved out of the masonry structure creates a pedestrian conduit between Water Street and the waterfront. A four-story, open-air courtyard excavated from within the center of the building serves as an immersive public space for building tenants, community members, and park visitors. Glass curtain walls line the courtyard, blending the contemporary and the historic to make visible the building’s striations: shopping and a public food court at grade, galleries for the Brooklyn Historical Society on the second floor, and multiple floors of open office space above.

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通过将屋顶改造成从庭院进入的景观美化的公共露台，布鲁克林桥公园被有机地延伸到建筑物中。这个7，000平方英尺的空间提供了桥梁和曼哈顿天际线的标志性景观，为公园的娱乐设施提供了一个餐厅和啤酒花园。

By adapting the rooftop into a landscaped public terrace accessible from the courtyard, Brooklyn Bridge Park is extended into the building organically. This 7,000sf space that offers iconic views of the bridges and the Manhattan skyline augments the park’s recreational facilities with a restaurant and beer garden.

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这座复古建筑的五层楼有380，000平方英尺的创意办公空间，其中包括屋顶上的两层当代建筑。零售和餐馆在底层有70，000 sf，二楼有3，000 sf的展览空间。

The reanimated complex features 380,000sf of creative office space over five floors, including a two-story contemporary addition on the roof. Retail and restaurants constitute 70,000sf on the ground floor with 3,000sf of exhibition space on the second floor.

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意象潜意识