Exhibit: LPC Sometimes Digs Newfangled Buildings
An exhibit called Context/Contrast that opened yesterday at The Center for Architecture focuses on contemporary buildings in historic districts that the LPC has approved since 1967. A few of the examples the show is going to spotlight are in Brooklyn Heights, like 322 Hicks (above left) and 125 Joralemon (right). Of course, not all of…
An exhibit called Context/Contrast that opened yesterday at The Center for Architecture focuses on contemporary buildings in historic districts that the LPC has approved since 1967. A few of the examples the show is going to spotlight are in Brooklyn Heights, like 322 Hicks (above left) and 125 Joralemon (right). Of course, not all of these approvals have been welcomed with open arms. Per Brooklyn Heights Blog, the early ’90s renovation of 125 Joralemon was criticized by a Heights preservationist as a “Disney-like mockery of historic preservation.”
Context/Contrast Exhibit [Center for Architecture]
CG – I actually saw it being torn down. They may have saved a tiny scrap of the original, but this was built as new. And nicely done, overall.
The house that used to be on the site of 125 Joralemon was a one-story shoebox. They probably kept the foundations and the curbcut but that is about all. What is there today is a new building approved by the Landmarks Commission over the protests of the BHA who thought it was too “Disney” -code I think for “non-modernist” although it is also code for a lot of other things the upper classes look their noses down on.
I really liked the interior when it was on the house tour. It was roomy and funky and it has a 2-car garage!
Where do you see that it was a teardown? I was under the impression that they worked around the old structure. I think it’s a really attractive building. I also saw it on the house tour and it’s totally teaked-out MCM inside. Quite a contrast!
125 Joralemon was a teardown, then new construction – why are they calling it a renovation? The windows on the building always struck me as being too small, but it’s much better than the suburban bungalow that was previously there.
Right, the Hicks Street building is much nicer when seen in person. I recall that building, thought it was pretty cool of the BHA and LPC to go with something like that instead of a ‘contextual’ joke of a faux brownstone.
I saw 125 Joralemon during the BH house tour in 2007 and I loved everything about it. Outside it fits in with the neighborhood and inside it is a modern beauty.
Dock Street isn’t in the DUMBO Historic District.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/DUMBO_map.pdf
The South Slope condo is not in a historic distrcit and is not nearly as nice as the building pictured on Hicks Street IMHO.
FSRG;
Damn, you beat me to it. In fact, when I first saw the picture, I thought that it WAS the South Slope condo.