Sometimes all a building really needs to be transformed is just a facelift, and this is exactly what Andre Kikoski Architects (AKA) provided for two abandoned warehouses in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. AKA designed and installed a moveable steel facade that opens, just like an airplane hanger, to reveal the building's doors and windows behind. By day the facade provides an awning for the building and passerbys to rest beneath, and at night the steel facade protects the building. Fashioned with LED lights, the building emits an incredible glow through an abstract assembly of perforations in steel.
[...] upon the concept of leisure and fun and clad its dreary walls with an eye-catching multi-colored facade that also works as a UV filter. [...]
[...] to those functions, the panels are a sweet design element. During the day, the holes in the facade will appear black on the bright aluminium, causing a giant rasterized picture of Mount Everest to [...]