Development Watch: 580 Carroll Street
In the five weeks since the Board of Standards and Appeals told the developers of the Enrique Norten-designed 580 Carroll Street that their application for a zoning variance had been denied, the major development has been progress in front of the Carroll side of the project. (The building also fronts Garfield Place.) Judging from the…
In the five weeks since the Board of Standards and Appeals told the developers of the Enrique Norten-designed 580 Carroll Street that their application for a zoning variance had been denied, the major development has been progress in front of the Carroll side of the project. (The building also fronts Garfield Place.) Judging from the work that’s been done, it looks like the developers are moving ahead with their first design, which involves front gardens and wooden boardwalks, rather than appealing the BSA’s decision and trying to build three additional townhouses. Thus, the project is probably going to look like this, instead of like this.
BSA Smacks Down 580 Carroll Hardship Claim…For Now [Brownstoner]
580 Carroll Developers Cite Chambers of Horror [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 580 Carroll Gets Its Glass On [Brownstoner]
BSA Postpones Decision on Carroll St Norten Again [Brownstoner]
580 Carroll Decision Postponed [Brownstoner]
Slope Rallies Against 580 Carroll, Rags on the BSA [Brownstoner]
Battle Over Carroll St. Norten Build Heats Up This Week [Brownstoner]
CB6 Doesn’t Buy Carroll Street Hardship Claim [Brownstoner]
580 Carroll Developer Trying to Supersize Norten Project [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 580 Carroll Street [Brownstoner] GMAP
Enrique Norten-Designed Project in Park Slope Revealed [Brownstoner]
Four Developments Coming to One Stretch of Carroll [Brownstoner]
THIS BUILDING IS NOT AT ALL INCREDIBLE. IT IS GOING TO BE INTRESTING TO SEE WHAT IT WILL COST TO HEAT AND COOL THESE UNINSULATED UNITS. I THINK THAT GREAT DESIGN
NEEDS TO BE PLACED PROPERLY. NOT ONLY IS IT NOT CONTEXTUAL TO ITS SURROUNDINGS, IT SCREAMS —-OUT OF PLACE—-.. THE DEVELOPERS WILL USE EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO MARKET THESE UNITS,,, EVEN THE ARCHITECTS NAME….
I HOPE THAT HELPS.. BUT I STILL BELIEVE THEY WILL BE A HARD SELL.. THE BROKERS WILL EARN THIER MONEY HERE..
Looks good to me. Bye bye.
I have seen this building and it is very sexy. My sister writes for a European architecture and design magazine and she was stayed with me for the holidays. We stopped by the building at took a tour. And quite frankly it’s amazing. Simply amazing.
My sister thought it was a sterling execution of modern architecture in a what is a modern city. This building will age gracefully. Anyone read Fountainhead.
Please don’t highlight your American simple uncultured persepctives. Look at his building from a global community.
This is modern art folks. Think of Frank Lloyd Wright. I think the issue is that it is ahead of brooklynites. Park slope is great and it should embrace the cultural elements this building represents.
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Taksa,
Sorry, I can’t agree with you on this, I am on that block everyday and it looks really crappy, especially towards 4 th Ave.
But, that’s just my opinion, which is worthless anyway…..
I walk by this building every so often. At first it looked a bit out of place, a modern concrete, glass and wood building in a rather mishmash block.
However, now that i see the whole facade completed, i am pretty impressed. Reminds me a bit of Richard Meier’s Army Plaza but in better scale and proportion. The two main points of interest and distinction are it’s clean lines, and peacefully modern windows. The windows seem to highlight and frame a living mural of the neighborhood.
Actually I am very interested in what the developer is asking for units? Does anyone know? When do they plan on starting marketing?
Remember people, no matter where you go, there you are. So don’t have some much anger or fear.
Change is Good.
I pass this building a couple of times every day and I do think it’s turning out to look quite a bit better than the renderings (which are also not bad.)
STARGAZER: Hodgepodge is a collection of various, not necessarily congruous, things. Anything should be within context in a hodgepodge setting. That’s why I love these blocks. To me they are a lot more interesting than blocks of identical brownstones.
Butterfly/*Rob*: I am interested in buying one of these and I think I make a perfectly fine neighbor. Although I do agree that these higher-end modern developments do seem to attract the cookie-cutter, DWR, DUMBO types.
Totally out of context. This part of Carroll between 4 & 5 really looks hodge podge.
This building will look right into the back yard of the crappy tenement next to it. Not a great view. But the people in the tenement will get a great view into their homes with all the walls of glass….who cleans that BTW??