Horror Show Friday
These two beauties come to us from Crown Heights and Canarsie, respectively. It almost looks like they could have been designed by the same person. Love those doors and peaked roofs! Condos in Crown Heights [Craigslist] 1280 E 100th St [Craigslist]
These two beauties come to us from Crown Heights and Canarsie, respectively. It almost looks like they could have been designed by the same person. Love those doors and peaked roofs!
Condos in Crown Heights [Craigslist]
1280 E 100th St [Craigslist]
Falling Water…worth a trip to see it….Amazing!!
I went house shopping in Canarsie with a girlfriend of mine a few years back. She purchased a house not much different from the house on the right in this post. We must have looked at dozens of similar house in Canarsie alone. While I think that her house and the houses in this post are hideous, she and thousands of others love this type of thing. So, builders motivated by what buyers want, keep building them because people buy them.
Pitt is no joke, he apprenticed under Frank Gehry on a designing a hotel in Dubai.
His interest in architecture started well before Katrina hit. He even studied architectural history in college.
In fact for his birthday Angie got him a private tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s house Fallingwater in PA.
Charlie Rose asked him about architecture in the clip below: (it’s only about a minute):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLFf11SEctY
and here is the Arch. Digest link:
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/features/2009/01/pitt_article_012009
Biff, glad to hear you enjoyed N’awlins. I love it there. I’ve been there so many times, I can’t count. Two of our best friends lived there, and we went often. The Garden district is heavenly. ‘I fantasize about owning one of those houses and standing on my ‘veranda’ in my hoop skirt ala Scarlett O’hara, calling for Ashley.’
Here’s a teaser: http://z.about.com/d/goneworleans/1/0/9/4/largemansion.jpg
If you haven’t read Rice’s Vampire series, you should. Very descriptive of N’awlins.
I want Bananas Foster, NOW!!!
benson, whatever it takes to get attention to the situation is New Orleans is the important thing. The end justifies the means. I really don’t think Brad Pitt is doing it for a photo op; not that I know the guy (big shock) but if anything he seems to generally try to avoid the spotlight these days, other than to promote the rebuilding of New Orleans. Wow, I feel like I’m posting on tmz.com!
but benson- Pitt’s not the only one coming up with great looking, innovative and affordable housing. did you read the article?
I don’t think most developers are malicious at heart either. i think they’re mostly small businessmen trying to get the most for their money. I do think a lot of them are too lazy to do a little research- but were I under the gun financially, and I’m pretty sure considering what it takes to build anything in NYC, most of them are, I would want to put up a building as fast as possible, with as little flak as possible.
why should anyone be pissed at Brad Pitt? He actually did spend months in New Orleans working. the premise was to build affordable,great looking housing and they did. He was right- it can be done, and he used his celebrity to get the word out. Truth is, he is right, and that one article got his message out faster and farther than all the other organizations and individuals who believe that same thing could.
MM wrote:”What is the purpose of those Juliette balconies? ”
Need I point out that these are actually RAPUNZEL balconies. the Hair care Industry has found that citing your fairy tale life is the best way to sell hair extensions- and who had the longest hair around? AHA! Ergo, Hairceleb Hair Supply and Nail Biter Direct has joined with the Construction industry to promote Rapunzel balconies in a major cross-marketing coup.
PS;
Thanks for the correction, Bxgrl!!
Well, I guess the Friday Fedder smackdowns do continue!
Biff, I am not criticizing his work as an act of charity. I do admit to rolling my eyes, however, when I see a Hollywood celeb make sure that the cameras are rolling when they are on the scene. Did you see him on Larry King Live recently talking about his work? Sort of reminds me of the admonition in the Bible to go about one’s work of charity quietly.
My bigger point, however, is that to take this work as some type of business model for producing low-income housing is just nonsense. If these Fedder homes were being built by just one or two developers, then there might be some merit to the argument that they are the work of people who just don’t give a damn about moderate-income housing. The fact is,however,that these homes are built by 100’s of small builders,not large developers. It just can’t be that all these folks have malice in their heart. I’m sure that some of them want to do some good, as well as make a profit. The fact that they come up with these homes must speak to some kind of reality they face.
If I were one of these builders, I would be pissed off big-time to see a guy like Brad Pitt,who can command cameras and resources that they can’t dream of, breeze in and announce “Look, it can be done another way”, and then fly off to his next photo shoot for People magazine.