Building 128 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard was once the center of military innovation, building ship parts since the World War I. This month, the building reopens as New Lab, a hub of modern science filled with software engineers, designers and entrepreneurs delving into robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology.
[The result is] a place where 50 companies could rent designated office space under the 70-foot ceilings, snack on grain bowls with other New Lab-ers in tree-dotted, iron-framed, rainbow-colored communal work lounges, and share a full metal-and-wood shop, a 3-D printing lab, and digital manufacturing tools. The combination makes it a Field of Dreams for any designer without the high-tech resources to actually make prototypes meets a Soho House for the more bookishly inclined—a Brooklyn real-estate dream meets a pastiche of Silicon Valley.
Check out this gallery of photos for a cool look into the restoration of Building 128 from abandoned factory to futuristic lab.
via Vanity Fair
Joshua Mu
Contributing Writer
When he is not attempting to hustle the hustlers of Central Park, Joshua enjoys exploring the depths of what New York has to offer. He one day hopes to pilot a drone without immediately crashing it.
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