Real Photos of Carroll Gardens Bastard
A couple of readers kindly emailed us some fresh photos of our latest pet peeve, the abomination at 45 Third Place in Carroll Gardens. The pictures (two more of which are on the jump) speak for themselves. Carroll Gardens “Bastardization” Hits Market [Brownstoner] GMAP Carroll Gardens Atrocity [Brownstoner] Top photo by James Di Liberto; bottom…
A couple of readers kindly emailed us some fresh photos of our latest pet peeve, the abomination at 45 Third Place in Carroll Gardens. The pictures (two more of which are on the jump) speak for themselves.
Carroll Gardens “Bastardization” Hits Market [Brownstoner] GMAP
Carroll Gardens Atrocity [Brownstoner]
Top photo by James Di Liberto; bottom two photos by Jackie Ruvolo.
This THING should be taken down. What a disaster!!
how sad
A perfect example of appropriately combining modern and old exteriors exist on the corner of South Portland and Hanson in Fort Greene. Stoner, you know the house on talking about, right? That building rocks!
You’re right samandjoeshow- and I’m not a big fan of that sort of thing, but it works they way the Bklyn Museum grand Staircase works.
I thought the CG building looks like a T. Rex mounting a woolley mammoth. Impossible then, impossible now.
Wait until they cover the cinder block with aluminum siding…then we will have gone full circle.
Looks like a poor attempt at copying Winka Dubbledam’s Greenwich street project. Her building also wraps around an older building to max FAR but what makes it work is that her addition is all glass so you have the contrast of modern and old, light material wrapped around the older heavier material.
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GV/GV-060.htm
“Best of both worlds! Times change, get used to it. I’d much rather live in that than in the original house. It’s tattered.
Most homeowners in Carroll Gardens have ABUSED their homes and they are in hideous condition. Now they want 4 million dollars for them. It’s outrageous.”
Sounds like a broker/owner trying to unload these units. But you cannot argue with ugly. There are many, many ways to make old and new coexist, such that they complement each other, contrast to each other, enliven each other (whatever you want). This, however, isn’t not about old versus new — it’s about clumsy massing. When you compare the fine grain of the existing house with its max-out-the-FAR addition, you see the real “design” here: lazy developer planning meant to squeeze the last dollar out. As if the only thing that matters is raw square footage.
–an architect in Brooklyn
gee i kind of like it.
it’s an architectural mashup.
Please note: Most homeowners in CG have NOT abused their homes…numerous homeowners have (and it galls me), but NOT most. Most have respected their homes for what they are and have maintained them beautifully, and that’s what makes CG most attractive to newbies. I’m a life-long, 50-yr resident of CG, and that Third Place addition is the greatest abuse I’ve seen in the entire neighborhood.