In the Pantheon of Building Types, the parking garage lurks somewhere in the vicinity of prisons and toll plazas.

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to move in next door to a building recognized as one of the era’s Modern masterpieces.

Combining a horse barn and welding studio in one small building is hardly a run-of-the-mill commission.

Smith Street, in Brooklyn, New York’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood, has evolved over the course of the past decade from a rugged urban commercial strip peppered with family shoe stores, bodegas, and windowless Italian social clubs, to the area’s restaurant row, playing host to a mix of both serious and theme-heavy establishments, from top-ranked restaurants run by ambitious chefs to a tiki bar named the Zombie Hut.