Wednesday Blogwrap
Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Fyahstarter. Brooklyn’s New Outdoor Concert Space…or Power Plant [Gothamist] Edge Sharpening for Sales Push, Pokes Above Fence [Curbed] From the Emailbag: Strange Nights on Bedford [Bed Stuy Blog] New Retail Shops Open on Water Street [Dumbo NYC] Manhattan Chocolate Site Improving [GL] Eater Inside: Bridge Urban Winery [Eater]
Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Fyahstarter.
Brooklyn’s New Outdoor Concert Space…or Power Plant [Gothamist]
Edge Sharpening for Sales Push, Pokes Above Fence [Curbed]
From the Emailbag: Strange Nights on Bedford [Bed Stuy Blog]
New Retail Shops Open on Water Street [Dumbo NYC]
Manhattan Chocolate Site Improving [GL]
Eater Inside: Bridge Urban Winery [Eater]
The glass circus tent will last for fifteen, maybe twenty-five years max. At that point it will be taken down and the steps will be retsored. Beaux Arts is forever. Polshek and Associates trendy glass conopy? Not so much.
The sprinkler show in the summer and lights at night are a nice look.
They could have at least TRIED to make it blend in a little better. As it is, it looks like a modernistic tumor with no visual relation to the host structure.
That’s right Hal. Try to find a picture from the side that shows how steep the stairs were. Considerably steeper than today. I exaggerated when I said “replacement stairs would end some place out in the middle of Eastern Parkway.” But it is no exaggeration that steps that would meet contemporary codes would extend well beyond where the original stairs ended. Almost the entire area in front of the museum would be this massive wedge of masonry.
Without considering style–the addition has won numerous awards and accolades, but I can understand those who don’t like it–compare the alternatives of having (a) an extensive open space and additional interior space versus (b) a wedge of stone that would provide limited and dark space beneath it and still require ground-level access to the building for those unable to climb the stairs. Not much of a choice, in most people’s opinion … although evidently 7:24 disagrees. “the (asshole) architect at 7:32”
Photo would have been better if taken on the other side of the subway rail.
Seriously. New blogs for the blogwrap. This is the laziest feature ever, and anyone reading Brownstoner probably already reads Gothamist, GL, Curbed, etc. with the same regularity. Pick something new for once.
The Brooklyn Museum was designed and built with a grand stairway, but it was removed around 1939. Pictures are wasy to find using Google images. Needles to say, the stairway did not interefere with Eastern Parkway.
7:32, if you are an architect, you prove the point made earlier.
Um, if stairs with a step-to-riser ratio similar to what you are accustomed to today were installed, the replacement stairs would end some place out in the middle of Eastern Parkway. You gotta love blogs, where opinions are like, well, like assholes (as the saying goes).