262 Pacific Street: How's This Gonna Fly?
Our guess for the first non-contextual brouhaha of the new year? A 12-story tower slated for the 70-by-100-foot lot (pictured on the jump) at 262 Pacific Street. More than twice as tall as any of its neighbors, the Chien Dao-designed project incorporates a chunk of neighboring air rights. The resulting building, which was disapproved in…
Our guess for the first non-contextual brouhaha of the new year? A 12-story tower slated for the 70-by-100-foot lot (pictured on the jump) at 262 Pacific Street. More than twice as tall as any of its neighbors, the Chien Dao-designed project incorporates a chunk of neighboring air rights. The resulting building, which was disapproved in its first submission to the buildings department, will incorporate a mix of studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedroom apartments. And how about the pesky proximity to the House of D? Fear not: The design of the building, according to the architect’s website, takes special pains to “avoid views of the downtown correction facility.” Natch.
Projects: 262 Pacific Street [Chien Dao] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Looks ugly but please STFU about contextual nonsense – it is 12 stories for goodness sake, hardly a skyscraper – Brooklyn Heights has more than a few such buildings scattered amongst its Brownstones and it causes no catastrophes
New Years are meaningless. I barf at least once a year too.
Those windows look like absolute horse shit. What are those, vinyl sliders? I made a better building out of Legos when i was 8.
Great to start the fresh new year out with the same old vitriol over buildings.
Perpetually angry brownstoner readers: time to move out of Brooklyn. You clearly no longer like the borough.
From what you can tell from this drawing it looks like 12 construction trailers stacked on top of one another.
I’d take a fugly fedders building for asshats and fucktards over this!
We need more apartments and space. I find it ugly, but I’ve got nothing against it.
It LOOKS like a detention facility…
Project must be killed.
Right across the street from Pacifico. This tower will kill any sun that they have in the patio.
Also, at 12 stories, its VERY high for the neighborhood. It will be a finger off of smith street that will tower over everything around it.
The design, IMHO, is kind of Soviet industrial style, and not in a good way.