Skillman Ave: A Study in Contrasts
Cruising down Skillman Avenue this past weekend, we were struck by the extremes of these two houses. The house on the left at 173 Skillman is pretty cool, we think. (See, haters, we don’t diss everything new.) It’s a modernist play on the vernacular of vinyl siding so common in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. We’re dying…
Cruising down Skillman Avenue this past weekend, we were struck by the extremes of these two houses. The house on the left at 173 Skillman is pretty cool, we think. (See, haters, we don’t diss everything new.) It’s a modernist play on the vernacular of vinyl siding so common in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. We’re dying to know more about it. The house on the right at 179 Skillman is, well, we’re at a loss for words. Who can give their best architecture grad-student critique of this place? GMAP
I wonder if a hundred years from now there’ll be a fight to preserve it
The one on the right shows signs of the dreaded “Odessa Luxe” look.
It looks like a Byzantine’s wet dream!
The worst one of these Gingerbread Castles I’ve seen is on Newel Street off of Norman Ave. in Greenpoint. Just hideous. I’d take a Fedders building over one of these anyday.
The house on the right is new construction. There are a number of similar houses in Greenpoint. They are pretty awful, but at least they are entertaining. Wouldn’t want to live across from one (or in one), but I do enjoy walking by them.
looks kinda grand. like something that would fit in nicely over in park slope or gowanus.
Can’t you just say “to each his own” and leave it alone?
If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it!
Yeah, it’s just an entirely different cultural idea of what constitutes a good-looking house. I could see this house anywhere in the Middle East, too, not just Eastern Europe.
But “Post-Soviet Neo-Capitalist Expressionism” is pretty accurate. Borat would love this house.