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
Somewhere in Midtown, a salad bar is missing its sneeze guard.
Anyone who buys near BAM, Atlantic Terminal, & Boerum Hill/Fort Greene will double see their apt double in value in the next 3 years. This will absolutely be the most desired place to live in Brooklyn in the next few years, especially after the Flatbush Ave is revived & the the BAM Grand Plaza is built.
I walked by this on Wednesday for the first time and my initial reaction was that I liked it. The waves and braces draw the eye to the doors and the fact that the canopy is transparent makes it less distracting.
I’ve had to wait outside BAM for friends coming from events and an awning of some kind was absolutely necessary. If anything, I’d love for it to continue down Hansen Place so there was some protection on the walk to the LIRR and subway stations.
I seriously would like to know what some who think its so ugly would have proposed for an awning. I’ve seen some old pictures of BAM and prior solutions were worse.
sloped glass wont have to worry about perching pidgeons.
I like the look too. The waves relate somehow to the arches in the windows.
Move on folks, nothing to see here!
Looks appropriate! C’mon philistines, it’s musical, organic and creative. And it’s a performance space for crying out loud. What a bunch of provincial pussies.
There is a good 3 feet it looks where one could stand under this without getting wet.
I see no difference between this or the hundreds of thousands of other awnings in the city which, yes…if you stand at the edge of it…YOU WILL GET WET.
And since some of you say you thought it should not have an awning at all, I suppose you think that nothing would give better weather protection than this?
Which I don’t really think was the point, anyway.
And while of course none of you know who “Putnamdenizen” is, at least by having a monicker you can track my increasingly bizarre opinions. What truly, however, is the value of a “guest”‘s opinion that is one line long? It isn’t persuasive and given its anonymity isn’t really a conversation.
jerri – I don’t think rain run-off is a “complaint about anything”, rather it is a critique of what is clearly a poor design. Awnings are intended to provide some form of cover from the elements, including rain. If they fail to do that in a reasonable manner, then they fail in their essential purpose. Check out other awnings on buildings (e.g. old Tribeca warehouses or new office buildings); they are designed to funnel wather away from the sidewalk.
I guess someone could walk over right now and see if the sidewalk is unusable in the rain. Seems rather unlikely that BAM would have any interest in funnelling water on its patrons, but hey, I guess it is possible.
I like the design – but then I disagree with many who seem to confuse respect for context with recreation of 19th century streetscape. One of my pet peeves are those bishop crook streetlamps springing up all over the place, even in front of new modern buildings. How tedious! Tell me someone can’t design a less clunky functional streetlight!
I went down to BAM last weekend, and was reminded again the strength of brownstone brooklyn is not just its housing stock, but the location of strong cultural institutions like BAM and Brooklyn Museum. Really a joy.