Round 2 at LPC Today for 73 Pineapple
When the developers brought their initial proposal for the empty lot at 73 Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights in front of the Landmarks Preservation Commission last August, they were sent back to the drawing board. LPC Chair Robert Tierney urged the architects to rethink the project in “a major way” while Commissioner Margery Perlmutter called…
When the developers brought their initial proposal for the empty lot at 73 Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights in front of the Landmarks Preservation Commission last August, they were sent back to the drawing board. LPC Chair Robert Tierney urged the architects to rethink the project in “a major way” while Commissioner Margery Perlmutter called for a “do over.” This all on the heels of opposition by CB2, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Historic Districts Council. At today’s public hearing, the 73 Pineapple contingent will take a second shot at winning the hearts and minds of the preservationists. Judging from the renderings that we got our hands on, this is far from a done deal. At the very least, it seems to us, they should make the ground floor a couple feet taller so that the first floor and cornice align better with the neighbors; we suspect the commissioners aren’t going to love the large bulkhead (which is hard to see in the rendering) on the roof either. Then again, the proposal received the unanimous blessing of the CB2 Land Use Committee and Executive Committee in January, so maybe it has a better shot than we think.
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This is a south facing building, by the way
12:14,
yes and no. The bigger the windows, the more the heat load in sunmmer the more a.c. required.
In the winter bigger windows tend to make a room feel colder as heat escapes through tiny gaps and through the frame itself (assuming the glass is insulated).
So being green is not that simple.
Brownstones are very efficient in that they do not have much outdoor surface so they tend to keep the heat and the cool in. Modern buildings, especially the all-glass facades, are energy-guzzlers. People who buy into these buildings may have no idea how really strong the sun’d rays are if you face south or west.
I like it. Recreating a Manhattan loft look could be a good way to get approved by Landmarks and still give buyers what they want. The windows in Brooklyn historic residential apt buildings and houses are just too small. People want light.
And more sunlight really needs to be encouraged in design because everyone in this city and country needs to use less electricity. Everybody’s getting on board with this. So if people have to always turn on lots of electric lights every single moment they’re in their home day or night, that’s so not cool. It’s just something we accept in older brownstones, but if that’s the experience in new construction that’s unforgiveable, with all we face with environmental concerns and energy conservation. Big windows big windows big windows.
Architect: Sherida Paulsen.
former head of the landmarks commission.
she must know what they are looking for in a new design.
Who’s the architect?
Tough to say much from one drawing, but this looks more like a little loft building in the west 20s.
could be worse, i guess