Designs for Fort Greene Tower To Preserve Mansion
Set Speed alerts to news from the Brooklyn Eagle that strongly suggests that the site of the 320-foot tower designed by Scarano Architects is likely to be the large lot at South Oxford and Hanson. The tip-off? Word that the design for the tower “preserves an existing three-story 1830s landmark mansion on the site.” Well,…
Set Speed alerts to news from the Brooklyn Eagle that strongly suggests that the site of the 320-foot tower designed by Scarano Architects is likely to be the large lot at South Oxford and Hanson. The tip-off? Word that the design for the tower “preserves an existing three-story 1830s landmark mansion on the site.” Well, the 8-bedroom house that Belgian artist Marc Lambrechts occupied for years before unloading for $13 million certainly matches that description. If true, the preservation of the house is great news. It will be interesting to see how it fits in with the overall design.
South Portland Tower Revealed [Set Speed]
Silver Phallus to Tower Over Fort Greene [Brownstoner]
I like it, it,s building’s like this
that have created the new vibrancy to
Brooklyn and made it such a joyous
energetic place to be again. Lest we
forget 25 years ago this whole tremendous redevelopement would have been thought unbelievable.
This is a truly hideous building. Even Scarano can do better than this. It looks like a first year architectural students midterm project. And it got a c-
oh, we will fight to preserve parking lots, graffiti covered warehouses, broken down piers, etc rather than have some tall modern building which will bring blight and destroy our quality of life.
It’ great we need more of this in the empty lots of this hood, what do you want ? brownstones all over…..
someone please shoot that mofo
true garbage. i live about 100′ from this. given scarano’s record with other projects, i think i should be concerned about it falling down and crushing my place.
apart from the hideous design, the scale issue is more important here. can’t imagine how this can be allowed.
I like it. And glad that area getting some different style architecture. Make some of these folks wake up and think a bit.
Not in favor or injecting these moderns
in middle of great brownstone intact block. But for mixed block or broken blocks – I think is great addition.
Be a bit more open people.
Truly hideous.
I know the property pretty well. I believe the tower will go up on the site adjacent to the yellow mansion (which mark also owns) all the way through to the garages behind it on south portland.
the parking lot pictured in the link you posted belongs to the church and was not for sale that i know of.
Wow, this one retires the ugly building award.
This rendering is even worse than the other one for the site, of the same design. This doesn’t relate to anything whatsoever,(except the AY tower)let alone the rest of the neighborhood. Is Bklyn to be the repository of second rate architects’ senior design projects?
Since development is inevitable, as well as necessary, why can’t they try harder? Is that so hard?
(I am very glad they are not tearing down the mansion, but it is really going to look strange next to this monstrosity.)