In the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, nine Chapel is the new landmark by design-driven developer Tankhouse and award-winning architecture firm SO-IL. Featuring furniture and lighting curated by furiture designers GUBI, its apartments represent the perfect marriage of design and architecture.
The partnership between GUBI and Tankhouse is rooted in a shared desire to connect with the outdoors and explore how interiors and exteriors meet and merge.
Embracing depth, texture, and contrast to create beautiful, richly layered spaces are made for both indoors and out. The curving, cloud-like softness of Pierre Paulin’s Pacha Sofas and Lounge Chairs stands in geometric and textural juxtaposition to the angular, monumental expression of GamFratesi’s Epic Tables.
Rethinking Urban Living
The latest milestone in Tankhouse’s mission to rethink the conventions of urban living, nine Chapel towers 14 stories above the streetscape, and encompasses 27 contemporary apartments.
At the core of nine Chapel is a profound interest in creating thoughtful, useful living spaces that blur the line between indoors and out. Through innovative, diverse outdoor spaces, we’ve created not only beautiful, high design homes with incredible views, but also a sense of community, says Sam Alison-Mayne and Sebastian Mendez, founders of Tankhouse.
Nine Chapel welcomes residents home through covered, open-air terraces reminiscent of front porches. Wrapped in an undulating, shimmering façade of perforated metal, the terraces embody nine Chapel’s embrace of outdoor space, with covered and uncovered loggias creating a beautiful interplay of space and light.
Nine Chapel’s interiors feature wide-plank white oak floors, ceiling heights starting at nine feet, and oversized picture windows that bathe the homes in natural light and look out over the Brooklyn cityscape. Supporting Tankhouse’s mission to rethink urban living, GUBI has curated nine Chapel’s model residence and shared areas with a curated selection of furniture and lighting from its collection of iconic modern design.
Outside, the perforated metal shades of Mathieu Matégot’s Satellite Floor Lamp provide a perfect visual echo of nine Chapel’s distinctive folded-metal cladding. A restorative connection to nature and the outdoors is palpable in the furniture’s material palette. GUBI has complemented the custom-made white oak butcher’s block kitchen island of the model residence with timber accents, showcasing pieces.
