The City's Most Prolific Architect
Our own Gabby Warshawer has done some detective work on behalf of the New York Observer, discovering that the man responsible for designing the most buildings in New York City is Gerald Caliendo, a Queens-based architect with 1,604 single-family homes, affordable housing and apartment buildings, none of which are going to win any beauty contests….
Our own Gabby Warshawer has done some detective work on behalf of the New York Observer, discovering that the man responsible for designing the most buildings in New York City is Gerald Caliendo, a Queens-based architect with 1,604 single-family homes, affordable housing and apartment buildings, none of which are going to win any beauty contests. The third most prolific architect was Brooklyn-based Henry Radusky, who had 893 new projects okayed by the DOB, including a few we’re familiar with, like the one above, taken in June.
Move Over, Howard Roark! [NY Observer]
cmu,
I hate this P.O.S as well, but it does have windows facing Carroll Street…….
I believe this building has NO windows on the Carroll st frontage. What’s with that? The only windows are at each end of the apartments, as if it were attached on both sides?
gee, billy- you didn’t think that building was cutting edge? I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked. Why anyone would think this..er…….lovely vertical paean to ….ahhh….a…piano keyboard is an asset to the community and a classic of its type. (Although it also kinda looks like a giant finger too now that I look at it.)
Dear Henry,
Thanks so much for continuing the tradition of making the NEW 4th Ave more hideous. You really deserve as many tax breaks as possible for your creative use of space and the beautiful choice of materials. What I like most about your building on 4th Ave is the ability to piss me off every time I drive by on my way to Home Depot to see the cheap doors that I know you also picked out at the same Home Depot. It is nice to know that a master like you shops at the same store as me who is just a smuck who never went to that mail order architecture school.
Thanks
Billy
Anyone click on Caliendo’s custom homes link? They’re so tiny and such poor resolution you can’t even tell what they look like. Maybe that was intentional?
Ayn Rand references: they’re doing it wrong…
ill bring my 12 foot tape measure. Should be more then enough.
Who wants to meet up next door at Caddyshack for drinks and pool?? Then we can measure the width of this building!!!
How wide is it?