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:
I agree that it’s ugly. But Brownstoner, I hope you were joking with your harsh statements about the developer. Just because it’s not our taste doesn’t mean we should boycott or put curses on people. You WERE joking…..right?
If the facade were to coordinate better with that of its neighbors (e.g., stucco it in an architectural “brownstone” color) then the building wouldn’t be so bad – it would actually fit in quite well (though I still don’t like the way it (greedily) encroaches upon so much of the roof line of the neighboring building.
it’s bad – I second ‘an architect in Brooklyn’ – It’s not well done. Glomming the addition up on top of the building is what makes it really objectionable.
Here’s a link to Louis Khan’s famous addition to the Yale Art Gallery, to me a successful example of a modern addition to a classic building. If I remember correctly, the was also used by Tom Wolfe in “From Bauhaus to Our House” as an example of the awfulness of modernism:
http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=1589&c=11
does it come with the Porsche in the rendering?
I think that it looks like a cheap wig.
What if the BORG assimilated a brownstone…
Sooooo, the question remains should a building on a landmarked block carry a premium to one on a block where something like this can be built? What should that premium be? Or, is there already a premium and if so what is it? Any thoughts?
Anyone remember Michael Graves’ proposal(s) for adding onto the Whitney Museum? This does pretty much the same thing Graves was criticised for – engulfing a building that wants to be freestanding. Happily, that never happened.
Looks kind of like a wig doesn’t it?
You guys are lucky if all you’ve got is that one. Come on down to Greenpoint and feast your eyes on the newly built… things. Emphasis on plural.
They range from square and boxy to…square and boxy. Details are numerous: from over the top: Lego meets Warhol, to big flat balconeys that jut out like pouting lower lips.
And don’t you dare ask if the community board is helping to steer a sense of design esthetics. I’ll laugh so hard I’ll cry.