As Downtown Brooklyn‘s skyline grows taller, denser, and a bit more interesting, construction is whirring along in the BAM Cultural District just across Flatbush Avenue. The latest project to break ground within the area is bringing the borough new cultural institutions, affordable housing, and well, architecture.

It’s the Brooklyn Cultural District Apartments. The 115,000-square-foot structure was designed by Bernheimer Architecture and Dattner Architects with some landscaping accoutrement by SCAPE.

The mixed-use building includes a restaurant along with the Center for Fiction and space for the Mark Morris Dance Group. Above the building’s cultural podium are 109 apartments, 40 percent of which are below market-rate. “Extensive glazing at the lower floors highlights the cultural components and activates the pedestrian experience,” Dattner explained on its website. “In-set balconies and double-height terraces articulate the upper base and tower.”

The Brooklyn Cultural District Apartments is intended to flow into the collection of high-design buildings and public spaces that are appearing one after the other on numerous sites around it. The building’s restaurant, for instance, flows into Ken Smith‘s Arts Plaza which itself flows into the slightly cantilevering Theatre For a New Audience by Hugh Hardy of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture.

Between the new apartment building and the existing theater and plaza is yet another planned building—a 200-room hotel with a jagged facade by Leeser Architecture. There’s one more big project to mention on the block: FXFOWLE‘s 52-story mixed-income residential tower that is quickly ascending into Brooklyn’s skyline. On the other side of Fulton Street from the tower is the BRIC Arts Media House, another Leeser project.

Adjacent to all of this is the site of Francis Cauffman’s very artsy and wavy medical center that is currently under-construction. And across Lafayette Avenue is TEN Arquitectos‘ 32-story, mixed-use residential tower that is beginning to make its ascent.