Designs for Fort Greene Tower To Preserve Mansion

imlay Set Speed alerts to news from the Brooklyn Eagle that strongly suggests that the site of the 320-foot tower designed by Scarano Architects is likely to be the large lot at South Oxford and Hanson. The tip-off? Word that the design for the tower "preserves an existing three-story 1830s landmark mansion on the site." Well, the 8-bedroom house that Belgian artist Marc Lambrechts occupied for years before unloading for $13 million certainly matches that description. If true, the preservation of the house is great news. It will be interesting to see how it fits in with the overall design.
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Silver Phallus to Tower Over Fort Greene [Brownstoner]

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This is another outrageously ugly scarano design...if it look this bad in the rendering, it will look even worse when it's finished. When will this guy lose his license? I wouldn't mind if tarring and feathering were still legal...

Posted by: Anonymous at June 19, 2006 11:57 AM

Wow, this one retires the ugly building award.

This rendering is even worse than the other one for the site, of the same design. This doesn't relate to anything whatsoever,(except the AY tower)let alone the rest of the neighborhood. Is Bklyn to be the repository of second rate architects' senior design projects?

Since development is inevitable, as well as necessary, why can't they try harder? Is that so hard?

(I am very glad they are not tearing down the mansion, but it is really going to look strange next to this monstrosity.)

Posted by: CrownHeightsProud at June 19, 2006 1:43 PM

Truly hideous.
I know the property pretty well. I believe the tower will go up on the site adjacent to the yellow mansion (which mark also owns) all the way through to the garages behind it on south portland.
the parking lot pictured in the link you posted belongs to the church and was not for sale that i know of.

Posted by: anon at June 19, 2006 4:49 PM

I like it. And glad that area getting some different style architecture. Make some of these folks wake up and think a bit.
Not in favor or injecting these moderns
in middle of great brownstone intact block. But for mixed block or broken blocks - I think is great addition.
Be a bit more open people.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 19, 2006 6:11 PM

true garbage. i live about 100' from this. given scarano's record with other projects, i think i should be concerned about it falling down and crushing my place.

apart from the hideous design, the scale issue is more important here. can't imagine how this can be allowed.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 19, 2006 6:47 PM

someone please shoot that mofo

Posted by: Anonymous at June 19, 2006 9:44 PM

It' great we need more of this in the empty lots of this hood, what do you want ? brownstones all over.....

Posted by: Anonymous at June 20, 2006 2:53 PM

oh, we will fight to preserve parking lots, graffiti covered warehouses, broken down piers, etc rather than have some tall modern building which will bring blight and destroy our quality of life.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 20, 2006 4:40 PM

This is a truly hideous building. Even Scarano can do better than this. It looks like a first year architectural students midterm project. And it got a c-

Posted by: Anonymous at June 21, 2006 10:12 AM

Thank you for your feedback, good and bad. The Society of American Registered Architects feels differently, as they have awarded this design their Design Award of Honor for 2006. That said, were you not all named "anonymous", I could actually invite you to our office to participate in a constructive design discussion. We have done this in the past with many communities. This is part of our social responsibility as architects. Our website is public access, as are our address and phone number. If you really want to make a difference and not just post negative comments please call us.

Posted by: Marketing@Scarano Architects at June 25, 2006 9:44 PM

I like it, it,s building's like this
that have created the new vibrancy to
Brooklyn and made it such a joyous
energetic place to be again. Lest we
forget 25 years ago this whole tremendous redevelopement would have been thought unbelievable.

Posted by: Tom Jackson at December 21, 2006 12:51 PM

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June 19, 2006

Designs for Fort Greene Tower To Preserve Mansion

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