Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

LeFrak Center at Lakeside

LeFrak Center at Lakeside

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

LeFrak Center at Lakeside
© Michael Moran/OTTO

SPECIFICATIONS
Construction Specifications

MANUFACTURERS
The Hudson Company

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Elisa Testa

STRUCTURAL
Robert Silman Associates

PROJECT TEAM
Erin Putalik, Nate Petty, Shengning Zhang

CIVIL
Stantec

CONSTRUCTION
ciame Construction

LANDSCAPE
Prospect Park Alliance

PROJECT MANAGER
Andy Kim

AREA
75000 ft²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Brooklyn, United States

CATEGORY
Park, Recreation & Training

LeFrak Center at Lakeside
© Michael Moran/OTTO

Text description provided by architect.

Spearheaded by the Prospect Park Alliance and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the LeFrak Center at Lakeside is a 75,000-square-foot, year-round skating and recreational facility that will open in December.

With programming including winter ice skating, summer roller skating and a warm-weather water feature, combined with a restored landscape and vastly improved park access, the LeFrak Center at Lakeside will be an extraordinary new destination for the Brooklyn community, New Yorkers, and visitors alike.

LeFrak Center at Lakeside
© Michael Moran/OTTO
LeFrak Center at Lakeside
© Michael Moran/OTTO

Lakeside is the most ambitious project in Prospect Park since the park first opened in the late 19th Century. The project spanned more than 26 acres and included the renovation of Chaim Baier Music Island and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Esplanade.

Constructed of rough-hewn green granite, the new LeFrak Center is set into the topography of the park. Rather than looking like a building, it appears to be stone walls in the landscape.

LeFrak Center at Lakeside
© Michael Moran/OTTO
LeFrak Center at Lakeside
© Michael Moran/OTTO

The L-shaped plan consists of the east block and north block, both one story structures, which are connected by a bridge at the roof level.

Framed by the buildings, a regulation size hockey rink sits beneath a 108 foot wide and 230 foot long canopy, which is supported by irregularly placed columns.

LeFrak Center at Lakeside
Site Plan
LeFrak Center at Lakeside
Site Plan

The canopy underside is midnight blue and carved with a silver pattern inspired by figure skating footwork patterns. The rink serves as a roller rink and event space in the off-season, bringing roller skating back to the Brooklyn community for the first time since 2007.

An exterior elliptical rink converts into a water feature in the summer, creating a play space for children and families. Pathways bring visitors up to the earthen covered roof, where a terrace overlooks the rinks and the lake beyond and allows for generous views of the park.

LeFrak Center at Lakeside
Ground Floor Plan
LeFrak Center at Lakeside
Section

Environmental sustainability was integral to the design, which is targeting LEED Gold Certification. The LeFrak Center at Lakesde is truly public, welcoming all who come, a place for pleasure, where proficiency and poetry cross paths.

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