CG Atrocity: There Goes the Neighborhood
Carroll Gardens better get off its ass and create some historic districts pronto. Here’s the poster child for the cause: The addition to this house at 3rd Place and Clinton Street, made all the worse by its corner location, has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen….
Carroll Gardens better get off its ass and create some historic districts pronto. Here’s the poster child for the cause: The addition to this house at 3rd Place and Clinton Street, made all the worse by its corner location, has to be one of the greatest bastardizations of a beautiful old brownstone we’ve ever seen. May their condos languish on the market indefinitely. Do you think it would be possible to organize a buying strike against this place? Picket the open houses? GMAP P*Shark
Here’s the rendering of the finished product:
awesome! 🙂
What everyone seems to be missing is that the addition (intentionally) amounts to a post-post-modern commentary on pop-mythical antitheses such as authentic vs artificial, rich vs. poor, old vs new. (This is evident not only in the form and material used, but also in its juxtaposition with the original structure.) Given this observation, to merely state one’s aesthetic reaction is a self-indulgent and bankrupt way of misdirecting attention from the true questions such an addition raises. Brownstoner readers should move away from the false ‘ugly/not ugly’ dialectic and concentrate on more relevant questions — e.g., how does the addition affect the neighborhood’s inner space? To what extent is the concept of an addition redundant from the outset, given that time itself delimits our movements through our so called ‘homes’? (In other words, is it really possible to ‘re-inhabit’ a dwelling whose walls are merely societal constructs or memes?)
The addition looks like it is creeping over the roof of the brownstone like the Blob.
Can’t talk now. On my way to blow the damned thing up.
I’m ardently anti-fedders, but I think this warrants a wait-and-see attitude. Granted, the current, exposed cinder block isn’t doing it any favors and i’m not wild about the exposed, parlor-level patio and stair bulkhead. However, the new windows look well-designed and I think it actually has an interested relationship to the existing building (which I am VERY happy is not being demolished). The rendering is too small to make anything out regarding the materiality of the new facade… I’m not wild about the color shown, but hopefully it won’t be stucco or CMU.
Actually, the part I find most revolting is the 2-car garage.
I like the interaction of the two contrasting pieces. It’s like a Hagelian dialect. The thesis vs. the anti-thesis. The synthesis is very well expressed, though I’d wish the contrast was also mor in the proportion of the two objects. In any event, it interacts very well
What a good point Ghirda (I’m being sarcastic). In the words of Carlos Mencia, “Duh da duh!”
I like it.
whoops… missed the second L… I really am I former resident…