Case Study
St. Ann’s Warehouse Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS Copyright © 1976-2016 BuroHappold Engineering. All Rights Reserved Set within Brooklyn Bridge Park, the restored Tobacco Warehouse is the first permanent home for St. Ann’s, a distinctive and diverse theater company that has been running for over 30 years. The LEED Gold certified project included the preservation of the original brickwork and scenic archways, while delivering a state of the art, flexible theater space. Preserving the building fabric of the 1860’s Tobacco Warehouse presented a number of challenges for BuroHappold Engineering. With the original exterior brick walls forming a key part of the design, we needed to devise a solution to keep the interior spaces at a comfortable temperature in the winter months. Our answer was to install a fin tube system t