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
16th street = Test tube baby for architects
Some small property owners do their own design and hire contractors to do the job. The house is practical utilitarian type, but no design. Is it fair to blame architects when they have nothing to do with it? Then again there as many bad architects as there are awful and greedy developers.
Holy weirdly intersecting angles Brownstoner! Get out the Brown phone call Commissioner Lancaster and lets start the defuglification!
I walked by this thing yesterday and was also stumped by the odd choice of railing (not to mention the silly facade.) I asked one of the builders outside if that was something temporary (perhaps while they wait for the Italian marble/steel/tile/chrome railing to arrive,) and the man looked like he wanted to slap me right there! I wonder who in their right mind would want to live in that terrarium!?
9:55 Italian has to be classy…ha ha ha.
thank god this is not on the north side of the slope.
Developer= runs project/hold purse strings
Architect= contractor
This fits in perfectly with all of the other architechtual masterpieces on 16th Street.
9:53 architects, not all, usually cave to developers bec they pay them to design. And because money is always the issue, they want it as cheap as possible. If you buy from a dollar store, you get a 99 cents item not to mention bad taste.
When one developer puts up several pieces of crap, it’s fair to say they are lacking in taste, at best. Of course, one does have to wonder how someone can go to architecture school and come out designing this stuff.