"The location and shape of the site along with the physical conditions provided the greatest challenges for the project," said Michael. "However, these challenges allowed us to think creatively and create a truly unique building with distinctive architectural details."

The building incorporates architectural lessons from Hurricane Sandy—setting a high standard for resilient design and construction to ensure uninterrupted operations.

Dock 72 is built one foot above the 100-year floodplain. That means, according to FEMA flood maps, there is a 1% chance that a flood could happen there each and every year. The structure is built one foot above that floodplain level. The mechanical equipment is on the roof. The building's base uses steel frames and steel braced cores.

With its strength, the building also manages to "go with the flow." From the outside, on a sunny day, the glass reflects the blue sky and clouds of its natural environment. This contrasts with the powerful black glass towers, arising above the crowded urban surroundings of Midtown. Unlike Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, which in 1958 embodied modernist corporate office architecture, Dock 72's structural cut-outs suggest the ebb and movement of water.

Michael noted Brooklyn Navy Yard's rich maritime history inspired the building's design. The tiered wave-like setbacks also provide 16,000 square feet of outdoor terraces across six floors. All tenants can use the terrace on the 16th floor.

Column-free floors with floor plates ranging from 42,000 to 60,000 square feet and 8-feet glass window walls provide a greater closeness to the outdoors, almost like a docked vessel. Open views of the water, shorelines and skylines of Manhattan and Brooklyn add daylight and air. S9 Architecture designed the building. Fogarty Finger Architecture created the interior design and Perkins Eastman is the architect of record. Gilbane is the project's general contractor.

Dock 72 is part of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300-acre industrial park. Dock 72 has a 99-year ground lease with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. The Yard is undergoing an expansion and job growth plan, which in its next phase will reach $2.5 billion. A BNYDC spokesperson tells GlobeSt.com that currently, there are 8,000 people employed at the Yard and they are working to more than double the employment to 17,000 by 2020. According to its website the Yard contributes $2 billion per year in economic impact for New York City. At the time of the filing of this article, details regarding additional conditions of Dock 72's lease including its price were not disclosed. This article will be updated when more information becomes available.

The BNYDC website maps key developments in the yard: Wegmans at Admirals Row and 399 Sands, Green Manufacturing Center, Dock 72, Building 77, and Steiner Studios' expansion. It projects 4,000 jobs at Dock 72.

At Dock 72, WeWork will be the anchor tenant, renting 225,000 square feet of space. The flexible workspace provider will occupy half of the third through sixth floors, and the entire seventh and eighth floors. Dock 72 will serve as a commercial office building with a focus on creative and TAMI (technology, advertising, media, and information) tenants. To attract these tenants the development features a health and wellness center that includes yoga, and a rooftop conference center.

Rudin Management and Boston Properties are handling the leasing, along with Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE. Asking rents in the building are in the mid-$50s to mid-$60s per square foot.

The image slideshow above presents architectural renderings of the project and construction-in-progress photos. View some of the differentiating amenities that Michael noted, amidst their creation. (Some of the amenities in the slideshow but not mentioned in this article may surprise you.)

The project's construction began in 2016. Check back with GlobeSt.com to see Dock 72 upon its full completion in winter 2018.

In the slideshow, architectural renderings were provided by Rudin Management Co. All photos were taken by Betsy Kim.