Closing Bell: Vote for 'Building Brooklyn Awards'
Via press release: “The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the 2011 Building Brooklyn Awards, its signature real estate industry event that recognizes recently completed new, and renovation construction projects, that have a positive impact on the borough’s economy and quality of life. The event also honors individuals who have made significant contributions…
Via press release: “The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the 2011 Building Brooklyn Awards, its signature real estate industry event that recognizes recently completed new, and renovation construction projects, that have a positive impact on the borough’s economy and quality of life. The event also honors individuals who have made significant contributions toward enhancing the business conditions and economic climate of Brooklyn. This year’s awards ceremony and cocktail reception is set for Thursday, July 14, 2011, and will return to Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard…Nomination forms are due Thursday, March 3, 2011, and may be obtained by visiting www.buildingbrooklynawards.com.”
The problem with the Building Brooklyn awards, it seems to me, is that with lots of categories (and a requirement that the structure had to have been built within a certain period of time?), there isn’t a lot of competition. As a result, aesthetic also-rans win prizes. The best new municipal garage–I kid–was the only new municipal garage.
If this was really about architectural excellence, as opposed to boosterism, the jury would choose to give no prize in some categories.
probably twenty or thirty good buildings at least….. 81 square miles of BKLYN, big place this is not an example
I think there was roughly two new good buildings in Brooklyn this past year?
The glass monstrosity in the picture there is terrifying. The poor little tenements next to it probably miss their former comrades in arms that previously stood where glassy mcglass is.
I like the tenements on each side better. The tenements had so much history as Berenice Abbott had documented in her book “Changing NY”. The tenements had taken on many faces of change over the years. I miss them, they were apart of history, and they looked more like a home and not an institution.
We – i am Chamber Committee co-chair with Susan Doban RA, – are looking for good buildings that received TCO or C of O during calendar year 2010. Interested in great residential, commercial and not for profit projects. Retail interiors, office interiors, green design are all eligible. You may self-nominate, no worries.