Latest Addition to BAM Complete
A few days ago the Brooklyn Academy of Music unveiled the new glass canopy outside its landmark Peter Jay Sharp building. The multi-million-dollar restoration of most of the building was completed a few years ago, and BAM’s website says the canopy was supposed to be finished in 2005. The organization declined to comment on the…
A few days ago the Brooklyn Academy of Music unveiled the new glass canopy outside its landmark Peter Jay Sharp building. The multi-million-dollar restoration of most of the building was completed a few years ago, and BAM’s website says the canopy was supposed to be finished in 2005. The organization declined to comment on the addition since it’s issuing a press release about it in a couple of days, but our understanding is that the structure marks the end of Peter Jay Sharp’s restoration. How do you think it looks? GMAP
Wait, if it’s in a “historic” district, i.e. a landmarked district, then i’m assuming that this had to go through LPC?
Can anyone with any experience of these procedures explain to me how something like this gets approved? I’m thinking of adding a similar tupperware inspired awning over my stoop.
“Sorry to get all schoolmarmish, but I’m amazed by the fact that the comments section on this blog is almost always full of profanity and rapidfire exchange of insult.”
You’re obviously new to Brownstoner.
4:44: It is in a historic district, but it is not individually landmarked.
Is this building landmarked?
4:20 don’t change the subject.
Reminds me of “contemporary italian furniture” circa beetlejuice dining room scene
http://www.1contemporary.com/
http://www.neointeriors.com/furniture/product.asp?id=591&cid=14
Shocking that Brooklyn is only a bridge away from what’s arguably the world’s bastion of cutting edge taste and design. Then again, even manhattan is looking like a cheesy mall these days. Maybe it’s an epidemic. I did expect a little more from BK though. I thought we were supposed to be cooler. At least cooler than some Canadian suburb.
All the trashy nouveau riche chumps on BAM’s board should be sued for violating the public’s view with such cheap, tasteless crap.
I’ve already started to hate BAM for their increasingly mediocre programming and hard-sell tactics (I think I get 5 pamphlets a week from them, and not for lack of begging them to stop). This is the mascarpone cherry on the stale deli cake that has become BAM’s management.
Which is too bad, they really were a great institution there for a while. WHAT HAPPENED?
Sorry to get all schoolmarmish, but I’m amazed by the fact that the comments section on this blog is almost always full of profanity and rapidfire exchange of insult. Is this really what brownstone Brooklyn is all about? I think the blog itself is really thoughtful and well done, but can’t the tone be neighborly, civil, or, dare I say, kind and considerate?
As for the awning: inoffensive, but not super inspired.