Out-of-Scale Addition at 524 State Street
How ridiculous-looking is this? We don’t make it down this last block of State Street very often (we tend to take 3rd Avenue to Lafayette when heading back to Clinton Hill from Smith Street or the Heights) so this addition to 524 State Street had eluded our watchful eye until now. While this is technically…
How ridiculous-looking is this? We don’t make it down this last block of State Street very often (we tend to take 3rd Avenue to Lafayette when heading back to Clinton Hill from Smith Street or the Heights) so this addition to 524 State Street had eluded our watchful eye until now. While this is technically only a one-story addition, it looks like two-stories since the original top floor had small flat-roof dormers to start with. The current owners blew those up to full-size windows and then slapped these two massive arched windows that are completely out of whack with the scale of the house—or any of the houses on the block. The design is by Andrew Tesoro Architects. What were they thinking? GMAP P*Shark DOB
the aesthetic isn’t for me, i think they would have been better off going MORE modern to differentiate the old from the new. the scale is a bit much – mathematically allowed or not. just because one can do doesn’t mean one should.
Literally sticks out like a “sore thumb”
It would be great to live in this house, and have all that space, light and parking.
If they’d kept it simple and just added 2 rows of rectangular windows, it would have been less absurd, in my opinion (it would still be a too tall addition, but less awkward). Now it looks like a scary robotic face with gritted teeth, rounded eyes and a black nose.
The horror! What’s next? Recessed lighting?
Looks like Paris and Berlin. You know there are cities far older than this that survive just fine without LPC telling private property owners what to do.
this is sad. dare i say it, scarano could have thought of something better.
couldn’t they at least do a better job of integrating the design with the building? Looks like a white pus pimple.
Out of scale my a$$. You nimbys should be lined up and shot.