On Prospect Park: Ready For its Close-Up
[nggallery id=”20762″ template=galleryview] Yesterday we had the distinct pleasure of touring On Prospect Park, the Richard Meier-designed condo next to Grand Army Plaza. The building’s on-site sales office opened last week, and it consists of a model four-bedroom unit on the second floor. Details in the unit are legion: The kitchen, for example, has integrated…
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Yesterday we had the distinct pleasure of touring On Prospect Park, the Richard Meier-designed condo next to Grand Army Plaza. The building’s on-site sales office opened last week, and it consists of a model four-bedroom unit on the second floor. Details in the unit are legion: The kitchen, for example, has integrated appliances like a microwave “garage” and a Sub-Zero fridge, both of which completely blend into the white cabinetry; high-end finishes abound, with Zuma soaking tubs in the bathrooms, Gaggenau gas cooktops with integrated electric ovens in the kitchens, and walk-in showers in the master baths with Dornbracht rain heads. Unsurprisingly, though, the real star of the show at OPP are the views from the floor-to-ceiling glass walls. The view from the most expensive unit, a 16th-floor duplex penthouse that costs $6 million, includes Prospect Park on one end and both the Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan skylines on the other. The building is now around 40 percent sold—its sales director, Cheryl Nielsen-Saaf of Corcoran Sunshine, said two more units went into contract on Monday—and move-ins should happen by September.
On Prospect Park [Official Site]
Brooklyn Can Finally Get Down With OPP [Brownstoner]
If I am going to buy a $1 million dollar apartment, the walls should have some paint on them (other than white) and my microwave should be better placed and higher end. In fact, this whole place should be better designed and staged for $1 million.
Btw, asshat @ 12:50, Brooklyn was just fine 10 years ago. I should know, I have lived here for much longer than that.
And the reference to “an insider” reeks of MySpace tween self-importance. Grow up you broker in disguise.
My real name is Bruce Ratner.
The microwave is useful for re-heating stale, leftover ideas, like this design.
12:56 sure you’re entitled to your opinion, but you call everyone who doesn’t like it ‘insane’. I was just responding to that Crazy comment. lighten up.
Who the fuck cares about the microwave. So you buy a multimillion dollar Richard Meier apartment and you make microwave food? You then are the lamest person in the world.
Don’t believe I said Beyonce determined anything.
Simply said she bought in the building.
From what I gather, not a soul on this blog is a scholar in architecture.
Certainly not you, 12:54. Just because you don’t like the building and I do does not make you right. I have just as much of a valid opinion as anyone else here.
Don’t be such an ahole.
I suspect some of these commenters are Bruce Ratner (12:49).
Plus since when does Beyonce define what is good and what is crap. She’s just an entertainer, not a scholar in architecture.
His “leaky” condos in the West Village sell for about $3,000 psf.
This building is a great thing for Brooklyn.
If any of you had lived here 10 years ago, NO ONE like Meier would have even set foot in Brooklyn, much less built something here.
You people are insane! This place is gorgeous.
I was told by an insider that Beyonce bought two apts in the building, btw. New home once the nets come to Bklyn, perhaps?
OK. What am I missing? Why are there any pillars in the living space? If this was a conversion from a warehouse, I could understand. And the second picture shows how the pillar actually blocks a portion of the view from certain angles.
I really don’t see this as a model of great modern design. Seems dark and small with an “open floor plan” that has those stupid, useless pillars.