Closing Bell: Poly Prep's New(ish) Look
The modern addition to Poly Prep’s campus is looking pretty complete these days. The Platt Byard Dovell and White design was very well received when it was made public a year and a half ago; think it still looks good now that it’s a reality? Poly Prep Addition Positively Received [Brownstoner] GMAP
The modern addition to Poly Prep’s campus is looking pretty complete these days. The Platt Byard Dovell and White design was very well received when it was made public a year and a half ago; think it still looks good now that it’s a reality?
Poly Prep Addition Positively Received [Brownstoner] GMAP
So you have to have an architecture degree to have an opinion that’s valid, about a building? We all live in this world, all of us, and we all get an opinion that’s worth hearing.
Sounds like everybody else likes this building well enough. And many of them are the ones that actually have to live or work near it.
I’m dumbfounded. I’m sure all of the people who are gushing about this building also enjoyed “The Emperors New Spring Collection” at fashion week this year.
I can’t believe the bullshit that the Landmarks Preservation Commission puts some homeowners through to maintain the integrity of a landmark district, and then they approve blase garbage like this.
This just goes to show how arbitrary and dysfunctional the Landmarks Preservation Commission can be. The school itself isn’t contextual to the block, so the addition should have been built as a subordinate addition to the original structure. It could have emulated similar buildings of its era and diffused nicely from the school to the brownstones down the block.
This boring modernist building meets only one of the LPCs own criteria – that it is contextual in height to the rest of the block. It is no way either harmonious or appropriate. It literally looks like two double wide mobile homes stacked on top of each other that have been shat out of the ass of the school. What was the LPC thinking?
um… Cashmere Country Day has a meth lab.
Had the potential to be a disaster on that revered block, but it was artfully done. Bravo.
Peddie School has its own golf course….now that’s somthing
Looks great. Even better than the rendering.
I’ve walked by recently and think it looks quite nice. Though the materials and look are modern, it doesn’t clash with the neighboring building.
They did a great job.
it ain’t the Exeter library, but its nice from the street.
I haven’t seen it in person yet, but from the picture it looks a bit out of context with the stone and brownstone buildings on either side.