When the Brooklyn Mirage shut down, it left behind more than disappointed ravers and sunk investments. Perched on the venue’s rooftop terrace, five luxury cabins were sitting in immaculate, unused condition.
When the renowned architecture studio Hello Wood installed them there last year, the plan was simple. Superstar DJs like David Guetta, Tiësto and deadmau5 would retreat to the cutting-edge pods, dubbed PEBL Grand, between their performances to relax and gaze out over the Manhattan skyline, the Hungarian studio tells EDM.com.
“The PEBL Grand is the result of years of dedicated development, which has taken Hello Wood all the way from Budapest to New York,” said Tamás Fülöp, one of the lead architects of the PEBL Grand.
What followed, however, was considerably less glamorous. The Brooklyn Mirage never reopened. The DJs never came and the cabins sat there, pristine and untouched, like expensive furniture still wrapped in plastic.
Offering panoramic views of New York City, PEBL Grand cabins are not your average green rooms. Hello Wood conceived them as high-end hospitality objects, resembling a futuristic pebble or space capsule. The company’s proprietary construction system “enables the creation of complex spatial forms and irregular geometries,” and each structure features a timber shell with adaptable outer panels, such as mirrors or stone, that allow it to seamlessly disappear into its natural surroundings.
Inside, the compact modular design maximizes space with a king-size bed, dining area, kitchen, bathroom, infrared sauna and massive windows. Hello Wood likens the space to a five-star, two-person hotel suite.
Credit: Dániel Dömölky/Hello Wood
The cabins took Platinum at the Rome Design Awards 2025 in the Mobile Homes category, Gold at the International Design Awards 2025 in Architecture Project Development, and were crowned the best mini-house of 2025 by Domus Magazine.
Hello Wood is now searching for a new home for all five PEBL Grand units, the company tells us. They envision the structures as luxury retreats, exclusive hospitality destinations or architectural installations. You can find out more about the cabins here.
Meanwhile, the Brooklyn Mirage finally received its death knell in late-2025 after the prominent EDM venue’s proprietor, Avant Gardner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $155.3 million in debt. A federal bankruptcy judge approved a sale to the venue’s primary lender, Axar Capital Management, for $110 million after it succumbed to an explosive financial crisis.
After revealing an ambitious $30 million redesign, the Mirage publicly navigated operational setbacks throughout 2025, most notably permit issues and safety inspection failures. Its owners ousted embattled CEO Josh Wyatt and replaced him with influential nightlife entrepreneur Gary Richards, whose attempts to carry out the former’s promised reopening ultimately proved untenable. With no clear path to profitability and a growing pile of severely overdue bills, Avant Gardner cancelled the venue’s entire season of shows.
FIVE Holdings, the Dubai conglomerate that owns the global Pacha clubbing franchise, recently finalized a deal to acquire the East Williamsburg property from Axar. The shuttered complex is now primed to reopen as Pacha New York and launch in June 2026 with a five-month programming push.
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