On Prospect Park: Ready For its Close-Up
[nggallery id=”20762″ template=galleryview] Yesterday we had the distinct pleasure of touring On Prospect Park, the Richard Meier-designed condo next to Grand Army Plaza. The building’s on-site sales office opened last week, and it consists of a model four-bedroom unit on the second floor. Details in the unit are legion: The kitchen, for example, has integrated…
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Yesterday we had the distinct pleasure of touring On Prospect Park, the Richard Meier-designed condo next to Grand Army Plaza. The building’s on-site sales office opened last week, and it consists of a model four-bedroom unit on the second floor. Details in the unit are legion: The kitchen, for example, has integrated appliances like a microwave “garage” and a Sub-Zero fridge, both of which completely blend into the white cabinetry; high-end finishes abound, with Zuma soaking tubs in the bathrooms, Gaggenau gas cooktops with integrated electric ovens in the kitchens, and walk-in showers in the master baths with Dornbracht rain heads. Unsurprisingly, though, the real star of the show at OPP are the views from the floor-to-ceiling glass walls. The view from the most expensive unit, a 16th-floor duplex penthouse that costs $6 million, includes Prospect Park on one end and both the Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan skylines on the other. The building is now around 40 percent sold—its sales director, Cheryl Nielsen-Saaf of Corcoran Sunshine, said two more units went into contract on Monday—and move-ins should happen by September.
On Prospect Park [Official Site]
Brooklyn Can Finally Get Down With OPP [Brownstoner]
So much hate on here! I live next to this thing, and I can’t say I love the architecture or would pay crazy money I don’t have for this, but I’ve seen much worse. And, I kind of like the color. But Bstoner is right that time marches on, and nobody was ever going to build a beautiful, old-style building to fill that gaping hole (even though that’s what I would prefer). How many people hated the Pyramide when they put it next to the Louvre?
So much hate on here! I live next to this thing, and I can’t say I love the architecture or would pay crazy money I don’t have for this, but I’ve seen much worse. And, I kind of like the color. But Bstoner is right that time marches on, and nobody was ever going to build a beautiful, old-style building to fill that gaping hole (even though that’s what I would prefer). How many people hated the Pyramide when they put it next to the Louvre?
Dear god & baby jesus, I agree with the What! (@12:01) Erg, I feel dirty.
But Bstoner, it’s one thing to like this building, it is another to do so with such an uncharacteristically superior attitude:
“Yesterday we had the DISTINCT PLEASURE of touring On Prospect Park…”
“If you don’t welcome this building with open arms to the borough, then you are someone who believes that time should stand still.”
Yup, you sound like a real asshat.
Wow it looks monumentally dull, with a crappy view and lots of dangerous corners on the fixtures.
Oh wow Beyonce considers Brooklyn. Most minorities do because they cant afford Manhattan. Who cares.
This will be on fire sale next year. Condos are collapsing. What’s up with the Stop Work Order?
Design? Meier did a 10 minute sketch and his draftsmen put together some details from their library.
sad part is that gym next door…their pool no longer has that spectacular manhattan view. weird, just sold our 1-bed co-op for $340k right down the street (e-pkwy b/t underhill and wash). wonder if the new meier bldg would have bumped the value a good few months down the road. eh, no matter, we more than doubled what we stared with when we bought 4 years ago. PH rules! love the ‘hood.
I don’t love the building. But i think that it is vastly preferable and superior to the asphalt parking lot it once was. And let’s not forget that it sits on a circle of apartment buildings. The parking lot was an abcess in that circle — this building completes it. From an urban design stand point, it works to have a larger building there.
nice deflection, 6:26. If this is all you have to add to the conversation you have nothing important to say so one of your posts is one too many