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
This same developer has put a similiar monstrosity on the south side of 12th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Aves. The whole block is far from a gem. It has some truly ugly buildings. But the new building doesn’t help the block at all. These people have no sense of context, of building something that fits with the streetscape and the area. It’s too bad.
In 40 years this street will be flooded.
If I had to guess, I would say the developer’s nephew has recently graduated architecture school (or art school), and was ‘hired’ at a discount for this job.
Hope that’s tempered glass. I’m gonna ride that building with my skateboard.
In 40 years I will be sitting in a nursing home crapping my pants still posting on this blog.
In 40 years our children will be a lot smarter than us and will erase the whole area for better architecture.
In 40 years our children will be flooding this blog asking how their parents could have let this shit happen to Brooklyn.
In 40 years your children will be flooding this blog with calls to landmark the innovative, early-21st century architecture of 16th Street.
Is there a law that allows firebombing ugly houses? Like a Giuliani way of clean up?