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]
“How many advertising dollars have we made off it? Zero”
Fucking Liar! I’m willing to bet that glassy piece of shit will be right here.—–>
“but we really like the design architecturally and think it is an example of how modern architecture can be judiciously integrated within historic areas”
Remember this shit! Your neighbor was priming his door to be painted! You went ballistic and now you are saying this statement?! You are a fucking asshat!
“If you don’t welcome this building with open arms to the borough, then you are someone who believes that time should stand still. We are pretty hard-leaning preservationists but we also get excited by good modern architecture. God knows we have enough bad modern architecture in Brooklyn.”
As long you don’t build it in my neighborhood! Yep Brownie, your creditability is a shining example. NOT
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…..
“I love the interiors and anyone who values high modern design will as well. You all are brownstone lovers and don’t know a darn thing about modern buildings. That is evidenced each and every day with your comments.”
Do YOU know about modernism? Look at mid-century modern interiors. They were not cold and stark. They were not interiors in which a row of books on a shelf, or a coffeemaker sitting out on counter would look out of place. Unlike in this interior. This condo was not designed for a magazine shoot. It’s a space for people to live in. These kinds of interiors are awesome for restaurants and bars. Because it’s a novelty act. And OMG, all white is so utterly out of fashion. So stop pretending to be all that with your design sense!
You are an idiot, 11:37.
And worse than that, an idiot who is ignorant.
Good modern architecture?
Suburban office parks have looked like this for at least two decades.
As opposed to your microwave that you have to move onto the toilet seat when you want to make popcorn, 11:31?
No 11:30, not all all new building s suck but why are we relieved when a new building is not hideous rather than expect something fantatsic? this corner of GAP demands something great, not something pretty decent. the real question is are brooklynites so self-loathing that they we wll accept this as the best we can do?
I don’t consider a microwave “garage” an integrated appliance solution. For those prices they couldn’t have been a bit more innovative. It’s almost like an afterthought.
All new buildings suck. Landmark everything. I love vacant lots. Any building erected after 1930 is ugly. Buck Fush. Free Mumia.
Stoner, “Judiciously integrated” are you kidding me? It’s a glass box surrounded by traditional stone buildings and the most beautiful public monument in New York City, perhaps the country. I guarantee you this building will start showing it’s age in just a few years time.
I don’t think that time should stand still -I think the three new buildings on Sterling are fine because they blend in with their environment. OPP does not do that, it has absolutely no details that pay homage or respect the architectural enviornment around it. How can such a building be “judiciously integrated” with its environment? Think of the most beautiful cities in the world – Paris, Rome, Florence, parts of London, Li Jiang in China – guess what, in those cities time did stand still. This building should never have built on Grand Army Plaza.