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
9:55 you are cracking me up.
What, you’re complaining that you can’t see the Donald’s bloated, puffy face? WTF?
bottom line, developers and architects are both to blame for the change of scape throughout bklyn. whether its the chicken or the egg, dunno..just think its time architects come out from the ivory tower and face the music. I’m sure Zeldin could give a crap about design, all that matters is that an architect design and get approval, and a brokerage can sell them. If anyting, architects and brokers are to blame for this mess.
He was just there staring at me with that shit eating I’m-richer-than-all-of-you-losers grin on his face. Where did he go?
It is a weird Trump photo that suddenly appears in the right column and then just as quickly, poof, it is gone.
Okay, I’ll say it. I like the rendering. I would have to see how well the actual building turned out and how it looks in the context of the street before having a firm opinion, but I like facade. No idea what’s up with the railing in the picture above though, especially since the renderings on the developer’s website show contemporary interiors.
And since I am often frustrated by the absence of any explanation of why people do or don’t like something, I’ll add this: the front facades of the neighboring buildings don’t align and I like how this building handled that. Dramatic yet relatively simple.
Glad some folks mentioned the 12th Street oddity. I had been meaning to send a photo of it myself. It looks like a hulking stucco moth.
Architects can draw up all kinds of crazy plans, but they don’t get built unless the developer builds them.
What Trump photo/ad are you people talking about?
“low income people who live in hideous boring 100 year old homes with aluminum siding but criticize this?”
11:56am, um, you looked at the real estate section in the Times recently or perhaps read any of 100 threads on this blog about the South Slope?
“Low income people?” With condos going for $600/sq. ft. and single family home for over $1mil, I think you need to wake up.
And sure, some of the housing stock could use an upgrade, but certainly isn’t “crappy” especially when someone renovates a perfectly good 100 year old home…instead of tearing it down and throwing up the above POS.
But, I sound like a broken record, don’t I?