New Development: 5423 Seventh Avenue
A reader emailed us a photo of this six-story, ten-unit development at 55th Street and Seventh Avenue in Sunset Park yesterday and we’re still trying to figure out how someone who graduated from architecture school could have oriented the building like this. Actually, it probably wasn’t his fault: The developer must have wanted to get…
A reader emailed us a photo of this six-story, ten-unit development at 55th Street and Seventh Avenue in Sunset Park yesterday and we’re still trying to figure out how someone who graduated from architecture school could have oriented the building like this. Actually, it probably wasn’t his fault: The developer must have wanted to get a few extra bucks per square foot by having an extra floor rather than shifting that cubic footage to the front of the building where it could have been used to align with the adjacent facade. Of course, now he’s stuck with a silly-looking building and the job of convincing potential buyers that looking out from their terraces at a brick wall of graffiti is a good thing. Are we just being crotchety or is does this seem like poor design to you too? GMAP P*Shark DOB
NEWSFLASH: A quick tour of recent developments in Chinatown and Flushing Queens will bare out the archetorture that this eyesore is really about. This has been built with a xenocentric focus. No self-respecting whitey would be caught dead buying one of these units.
BTW: In China, you don’t order chinese food…it’s just food.
the bottom line here is the building is not an architectural gem. unfortunately, the developer cheap out on hiring a design oriented architect and wanted only square footage. is there a way to educate developers that a good design will get him/her a higher return/sf.
it is too bad that another ugly building has gone up and it is going to stay for another hundred year+ in our urban fabric.
It’s a nice building, what’s wrong with it? It’s got clean lines, and seems well balanced? Just because it doesn’t look like a brownstone, so what? This is progress from what it was before. If you don’t agree with revitalization, move out into the woods and live like a caveman… Living space is living space. Lets see you build something nicer.
7:18, “Chinese” isn’t racist.
“Chinee” is (moronic post by Popeye Doyle at 12:44)
A Chinese family bought my home in Sheepshead Bay and I then purchased my home in Victorian Flatbush. I listed with a Chinese Broker who specifically told me what I needed to do to “Feng Shuei” my home which would make it more appealing to Chinese buyers. Ii may not be aesthetically pleasing but perhaps it was built with this in mind.
How is it racist to point out it is built by chinese for chinese? Is chinese a racist term?
and “puked up by your narrow little minds”??? What? Do you feel better now? What are you, twelve years old?
Brownstoner has asked the question and answered it himself, WRONG.
The building, you idiot, is oriented this way so that the entrance is not on the short side, but on the long side. This allows the vertical ciculation to impose less on the space (You know, since you live in a typical brownstone where the long stair makes a 16′ wide feel 10′?).
Also, by placing the entrance there, the designer thought about adding a symetrical value to the long facade, but you wouldn’t know that
Very silly design indeed. It kind of reminds me of the Washington Condos on Wahington Ave (Scarano). To this day I can’t understand why anyone would buy in that building.
I agree with the poster who said the bottom floor looks like an old streetcar diner….I was going to say the same thing. Of course this is Chinese construction, there have been a number of ugly 6 story buildings built recently catering to the Chinese. 8th Avenue is fun to walk on though!
I’ve seen uglier….but it aint pretty.