The Brooklyn Solar Canopy will close out 2018 with yet another top design honor after earning a Record Products Best in Category award for Building Systems and Components. Record Products is an annual design competition curated by Architectural Record, one of the country’s oldest and most highly subscribed architecture and interior design magazines. The Building Systems and Components category encompasses…
The Brooklyn Solar Canopy Co. Makes Its Debut At SPI 2018
The first Brooklyn Solar Canopy was installed just about three years ago on 12th Street in Park Slope. Since then, over one hundred have popped up on roofs all over Brooklyn, with a handful in other boroughs and cities. The pace is accelerating every month and following our debut exhibition at last week’s Solar Power International…
Solar Living
Our canopy is a great way to get solar up on flat roofs by elevating panels over obstructions and shade. But it’s also a great way to get people up on flat roofs by elevating the way we think about and use space. This short video, produced by local filmmaker Emmett Padgett with input and cameos from…
[WATCH] The Brooklyn Solar Canopy: A Guide for Solar Professionals
For us, the most reliable indicator of growing interest in the Brooklyn Solar Canopy is the number of new inquiries we field each week from solar companies all over the country and, increasingly, the world. By this yardstick interest is most definitely booming. And as our direct engagement with new sales, operations and installation teams…
The Brooklyn Solar Canopy makes its debut as an outdoor dance floor at NYC’s Panorama Music Festival
One of the unanticipated joys of working for the Brooklyn Solar Canopy Co. is to regularly behold the creativity of our customers, who continue to expand the use cases of the canopy well beyond our own initial assumptions about what it was for and could do. Last weekend, for the very first time, the canopy…
The Brooklyn Solar Canopy among 2018 Architizer A+ Awardees, winning Popular Choice Award in Roof Products Category
The Brooklyn Solar Canopy claimed another coveted design award on Monday with the Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award. The canopy vied for the honor alongside two other jury nominated contenders in the roof product category, and won by receiving the highest percentage of votes cast online. This impressive win follows just weeks after the canopy…