Bathroom Tile Exterior in Greenwood Heights
The South Slope and Greenwood Heights have been ground-zero for some of the worst kinds of architectural experimentation in recent years, so it was with little surprise that we opened a tipster email to find this photo of a recently-completed facade on 19th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues that’s composed of, you guessed it,…
The South Slope and Greenwood Heights have been ground-zero for some of the worst kinds of architectural experimentation in recent years, so it was with little surprise that we opened a tipster email to find this photo of a recently-completed facade on 19th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues that’s composed of, you guessed it, bathroom tiles. An OT regular even went up and touched the facade to confirm. There’s a full-length photo on the jump.
glad we dont have this ka ka in West Prospect Heights : )
IMBy, are you talking about the house on 14th street near 5th with nothing but cheap plywood and bits of tarpaper showing from the parlor floor up? I can’t figure out what’s going on there, but his progress has definitely slowed from “Just a little bit at a time for years” to imperceptible.
Perhaps this could be a new treatment for Scarano and Fischer? Black bricks and stucco are so 2007!
im not saying its great, but it doesnt offend me like some things do.
there doesn’t seem to be any place to put my toothbrush.
I’m nearby so I went and checked it out cuz I too saw the lines. It’s definitely some kind of stone, not a laminate. Maybe it was assembled on the ground and put in place in pieces, hence the seems, but it’s not an improved vinyl.
Was it grouted?
There is a guy in the SSlope who has been covering his wood frame house in belgium block cobble stones for as long as I can remember. Just a little bit at a time for years.
Umm… as a commenter on the reddit post I made for this stated, there seems to be some seams breaking the tile patterns, indicating this might be a laminate. Even worse!
http://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/bxb3s/have_excess_bathroom_tiles_but_no_materials_for/
Maybe they were inspired by I.M. Pei’s exterior for the Wiesner Building at MIT, which looks like a bathroon turned inside out. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MIT_Media_Lab.jpg for the stock photo and here http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1995/bubbles/ for one of the many hacks on the building (the Scrubbing Bubbles one).