BK Developers: What Are They Thinking?
Biking around the South Slope last week, the horror of this ground-floor design at 245 16th Street jumped out at us, which is really saying something on a block that has its fair share of ugly new buildings. The strangely angled modern window juxtaposed with the traditional-style interior wood railing is a real head scratcher….
Biking around the South Slope last week, the horror of this ground-floor design at 245 16th Street jumped out at us, which is really saying something on a block that has its fair share of ugly new buildings. The strangely angled modern window juxtaposed with the traditional-style interior wood railing is a real head scratcher. A quick perusal of this developer’s other designs shows that this one’s not an aberration. In all honesty, we can’t understand how anyone could have such bad taste. This stuff is horrendous and, project by project, ruining the landscape of the neighborhood.
245 16th Street [BK Developers] GMAP P*Shark
1:04, sure looks to me like the building lines up with the more-recessed building on the left and the less-recessed building on the right:
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What trapazoid? — 12:28
“12:13 south slope is still dominated by low income hispanics with tons of illegals. it’s gross. most buildings are not updated. they are gross. this new condo building kicks the ass of most of the west side of south slope. it blows.”
Nice, 1:16pm, go live with the rich white folks in the North Slope or Bklyn Hts. if a little diversity bothers you.
Just another trollish bigot for this blog.
I’ll take ethnically/economically diverse areas of Brooklyn like South Slope, Greenwood Hts., Sunset Park, Prospect Heights, Bed-Stuy, etc. any day.
All you people who see Trump are nutso. I don’t see him.
The “design” really has to be understood in context. The weird glass atrium juts out in space in order to enclose the below street level cellar. There are a hand full of these buildings in the SSlope that use this technique, but most have an open courtyard, open to the elements, with windows or even sliding glass patio doors. These below street level spaces I suspect are designed into the building to gain the extra ceiling height for a legal floor with natural light, in this case a duplex with staircase. There are two other buildings right on the block, that attempt to do the same thing.
When I saw them remove the construction fence to pour the cement sidewalk, you had to wonder what they were thinking. Glass right up to the public sidewalk? Every three year old in the neighborhood is going to want to try and play on that window. I guess next comes the fence in front.
Let’s face it, Park Slope is not South Slope. You can tell the difference.
1:04 is right. he didn’t line anything up on 12th street, either. The building starts out several feet out into the sidewalk beyond the facade of its next door neighbor, retreats in the middle to about 6-8 feet behind the facade, then returns to break the facade line again at the other end. It’s a double trapezoid from nowhere to nowhere and back again. Not to mention the curved front balconies split down the middle by a big column. Truly bizarre.
After looking over the Past, Current, and Upcoming projects, its almost as though the developer discovered a lost archive of architectural plans from 1983 and decided to save some money by just going with them.
12:13 south slope is still dominated by low income hispanics with tons of illegals. it’s gross. most buildings are not updated. they are gross. this new condo building kicks the ass of most of the west side of south slope. it blows.
maybe one day it’ll have lovely shops and restaurants, but i lived there, so i know.
it’s massively yucky.
He didn’t line up anything. He put a trapezoid to nowhere on the sidewalk which increases the cramped feel of the building.