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
I agree Julie…
i love ugly buildings not on my block. they call me a bricoleur.
see claude levi-stauss and jacques derrida.
and i’m black and grew up in clinton hill and bedford stuvesant.
interestingly, i think mr. brownstoner gets the complexity of ch/bs black identity in all of its complexity. this is why i return here & respect your site/cite.
Hmm. Instead of trying to take a dowdy block and improve it, we place a giant shit pile at the end of it because it’s not a nice block to begin with. Great urban renewal spirit we have here.
This building makes me not want to masturbate as much.
I’m the proud (future) owner of a Bricolage apartment in the St Marks Lofts just off Washington Ave, and although I’m none too impressed by the company’s other buildings, I bought it because of the huge windows they put in (which Brownstoner commented on previously) and because of a south-facing balcony. If the outside looks like run-of-the-mill brick, I’ll have to take my chances.
Bricolage is the name of an architecture firm that has designed several buildings in Brooklyn; the word bricolage, which derives from french, means to throw something together.
You want to see a fine example of “Bricolage” disaster? Well look no further than the corner of Classon and Fulton! A real piece of shit! The building has been up for two years now and they haven’t sold a single unit. Why? It’s a shit sandwich!
Bricolage = Throwing up scrap building material to save a buck at the expense of overall community aesthetics.
Brownstoner,
I am confused by your use of the word bricolage. Sometimes you seem to use it to convey something that is thrown together, cheaply made, but at other times you use it to describe architecture that brings different materials together. Both uses are correct but I am sometimes unsure of what you are trying to say. In this case, perhaps you are referring to different architectural styles thrown together to create a whole lot of nothing. Just thinking out loud here.
how come these negative comments were not thrown at the developments at luquer and 4th, which are also next to smith, the train and gowanus…. those developments seemed to have sold well. i think some dont even know the hood they say they know