Innovative Architect Sou Fujimoto Designs Cut-Away Building to Replace Slave Theater in Bed Stuy 

Ingenious Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is designing one of Brooklyn’s most interesting new buildings to replace the iconic Slave Theater in Bed Stuy. Renderings released by one of the developers, London co-living firm The Collective, show a two-story entrance capped by a projecting canopy that recalls the former cinema’s entry. Openings in the red-brick facade let light into the interior and expose “glimpses of shared space and cultural programs within,” according to a statement the company sent out Wednesday.

Once a unique hub of Afrocentrism in Bed Stuy, the Slave Theater was eventually demolished in 2017, despite protests and efforts by locals to save it.

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