397 Greene Gets a Facade
397 Greene Avenue, the seven-unit rental building at the corner of Bedford Avenue in Bed Stuy, is looking about ready to launch. What do you think of how it’s turned out? Development Watch: 397 Greene Avenue Five Months Later [Brownstoner] Development Watch: 397 Greene Avenue [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
397 Greene Avenue, the seven-unit rental building at the corner of Bedford Avenue in Bed Stuy, is looking about ready to launch. What do you think of how it’s turned out?
Development Watch: 397 Greene Avenue Five Months Later [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 397 Greene Avenue [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
I live right by this and have been pensively watching its development. I’m happy with it. There is some seriously ugly stuff being allowed in bed stuy. At least this one acknowledges some aesthetic effort. And prior to this building, it was a junk lot, so definitely an improvement.
bho- I think there was some confusion as to whether you were talking about modern as in the style/movement… which this building most certainly is not a part of. (I might say its style is ‘incompetent post-modern,’ like a lost of the suburban subdivisions out there.)
While it looks like some thought went into its design (unusual and laudable) the facade looks like a cheap piece styrofoam some undeveloped ornament gluegunned to the facade.
That being said, so does almost every new building made in the rest of the country, so I’m not terribly surprised.
I have had the pleasure of witnessing this monstrosity during all its stages of development through my kitchen window. This is a modern work of _______, and doesn’t belong in this neighborhood at all. Maybe in Florida.
I think its quite nice. This is right near me, happy to have it.
What does modern mean? Recent. Recent construction, new construction. For new construction, this aint bad.
Show me a few new properties in this ‘hood (or any for that matter) that blow this out of the water.
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FUGLY.
BHO: What’s modern about it?
But those column braces between the balconies might be too tempting for kids or the drunk/high. Why not a continous slab with partition/wall if separate units?
Not bad for modern. You know what else is nice? That development over there in Bed Stuy right on Atlantic Ave, west of Utica I think.
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I think it looks rather good.
Proof yet again that a cornice does not make a building contextual. Or pretty.