Development Watch: Butt-Ugly on Smith
What can you say about this Bricolage piece o’ crap going up at 478 Smith Street at the corner of 9th Street? Not much really. Given the size of the three apartments, they presumably have been designed to sell as condos but it’s hard to imagine anyone deciding to sink their nest egg into this,…
What can you say about this Bricolage piece o’ crap going up at 478 Smith Street at the corner of 9th Street? Not much really. Given the size of the three apartments, they presumably have been designed to sell as condos but it’s hard to imagine anyone deciding to sink their nest egg into this, is it not? GMAP P*Shark DOB
Why would anyone want to be an architect?
If a Starbucks opens there on the ground floor, all will be forgotten.
Don’t understand why people do not realize that Architects have no control over what type of material or how much the DEVELOPER is willing to spend on the facade of their projects. In an area like this why should the DEVELOPER spend on a fancy facade? All that will do is cut into his profits. VERY RARELY is the architect the DEVELOPER. Something people who read the B’stoner obviously have no clue about.
I don’t think the building is that bad so far. The naysayers above wouldn’t by chance also be the ones with petitions up their asses about the building on the Carroll Street subway stop? Just wondering.
I think it’s no longer possible to subjectively separate the name Radusky from Bricolage Design Inc. The well is poisoned. When will the district attorney’s office investigate his use of nonexistent Yeshivas to boost his clients FAR? As for Radusky the architect, I seriously doubt that he even bothers to design anything anymore, Besides having his right to self-certify his work taken away in NYC his building plans are basically computer cut and paste jobs executed by unsupervised, inferior contractors. As for this building’s location, just check Property Shark’s Toxic Site Map for the story why this property is not fit for humans.
Julie – “Our” urban renewal spirit is irrelevant because “we” didn’t “put” anything, anywhere – the developer (which isn’t the ARCHITECT Bricolage BTW) who is risking his millions of dollars is only relevant ‘spirit’ that matters.
The fact that this cite is so close to the toxic dump that is the Gowanus – is underneath the F-Train and virtually underneath the BQE and apparently (based on reports here) home to heroin addicts, tranny prostitutes and other “dicey” characters – means to me that the developer actually has a true urban renewal spirit and in fact considering the building really isnt ugly (not pretty either) I think the developer deserves some credit
Do not forget to blame the reason for the buildings overall look, the rules of the city planning commission made the mass and those setbacks.
I would swear that there is sex trade going on there, as well. I saw a few transvestite prostitutes walking around in the early morning hours.
Its brown just like dog shit!