Architecture: Modern the Way We Like It
This design at 165 8th Street caught our eye last week. The owner transformed an old one-story taxpayer into, we think, a very cool modern two-family home. This is, on a small scale, what the developer of 328 Grand Avenue should have done instead of tearing down the beautiful old two-story warehouse. You like-y?
This design at 165 8th Street caught our eye last week. The owner transformed an old one-story taxpayer into, we think, a very cool modern two-family home. This is, on a small scale, what the developer of 328 Grand Avenue should have done instead of tearing down the beautiful old two-story warehouse. You like-y?
i like this and I like b’stoner’s taste and perspective.
it still looks better than anything frank ghery would put up
no like-y at all!
anyone know who the designer is?
Would you like to have it next door to your house? This is a renovation done on small budget. Bigger windows/glass would be better. But this is bad…just bad. And I love modern, but not bad…This is not modern. It is not even inventive. Is this plywood on the sides of the windows? Bad!
2:04 – I agree some things are better left utilitarian – which is why if the area is commercial (certainly the building originally was) then it should remain that way…..and therefore residents should be zoned out, so as to preserve a commercial district which doesnt have to compete with residential prices and people who eventually start complaining about all that ‘character’ they thought was so cool when they were young hipsters.
Loving it. Looks urban and utilitarian. Its in an area full of commercial buildings, fits right in and doesn’t try to be more than it needs to be. That’s why the roll gate works. No windows? Why should it have more? To look out onto an ugly and filthy street?
Observations are correct – this building doesn’t make nice like the house next door. But then for some there is no need to pretend and try to make nice things that are not. Buy something nice in the burbs. This is a concrete jungle. And in the jungle, this building works. Would love to see the interior and know whether there are any skylights.
More curb cuts = more ugly garage doors or worse yet car parked in front of house.
Report this owner here – ILLEGAL TO PAINT CURB YELLOW.
only city -dept of tranportaion is allowed.
This place is a good illustration of the inferiority of modern design–not that we needed another illustration, mind you.