Frederick Tang Architecture has completed the renovation and interior design of a 2,500-square-foot, 13th-floor apartment in Brooklyn’s Turner Towers, a grand pre-war, art deco building dating to 1926. Located on Eastern Parkway, the apartment overlooks both The Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Designed for a couple who work in the arts and their two children, the renovation balances reverence for the apartment’s history with contemporary, custom details inspired by the family’s artistic sensibility and casual lifestyle. Description The project began by reconfiguring the original layout to open up the home and centralize the kitchen. “We had to make this apartment work for a modern family,” says Frederick Tang, principal of Frederick Tang Architecture. While boasting generously proportioned living areas and tall ceilings typical of classic prewar apartments, the original kitchen was cramped, penned in by walls on all sides, and bordered by two small rooms o