Details on the Building 92 Solar Screen

We were curious about the design on the facade of the new Building 92 extension at the Brooklyn Navy Yar so we asked the Yard’s director of research, Daniella Romano, for an explanation. Here’s what she said:

The solar screen on the south-facing facade of BLDG 92’s modern extension is a key element of the complex’s LEED Platinum design, both minimizing glare and reducing solar heat gain on the glass curtain wall. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and workshop/apd, the screen was fabricated and installed by FMB in late 2010.

The image rendered in screen perforations is the 1936 launch of USS Brooklyn (CL 40) from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Brooklyn was one of four light cruisers designed in accordance with the 1930 London Treaty, an international effort to limit naval shipbuilding. Ship sponsor at the launching was Ms. Kathryn Jane Lackey, daughter of Admiral F.R. Lackey, then Commanding Officer of the New York Naval Militia. Ms. Lackey resided at the time with her parents at 1223 Union Street.

Brooklyn participated in the opening event of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Following service with the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Squadron during WWII, the ship was decommissioned in 1947 and transferred in 1951 to the Chilean Navy under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.

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