Mutant Ninja Building at 869 Pacific Street
This one’s a real head-scratcher: Scaffolding’s down at 869 Pacific, revealing an, ahem, interesting facade indeed. Two different types of brick on the top floor and an orange hue on bottom. We’ve been seeing a lot of colorful touches on buildings recently—think they liven up the neighborhood or look too out of place? Development Watch:…
This one’s a real head-scratcher: Scaffolding’s down at 869 Pacific, revealing an, ahem, interesting facade indeed. Two different types of brick on the top floor and an orange hue on bottom. We’ve been seeing a lot of colorful touches on buildings recently—think they liven up the neighborhood or look too out of place?
Development Watch: 869 Pacific Street GMAP
Based on the google streetview, this house had a lot of potential prior to this awful renovation. There are far better ways to add an addition floor and maximize square footage.
Thank God I don’t live on THIS block. What a blight.
There are so many hideous buildings going up – more the small ones – the big ones use architects who have some kind of sense and aesthetic. I think all builders should be required to hire me as a design consultant.
This building has MULTIPLE violations and fines up the wazzoo from the DOB.
I see via Property Shark that the building had keystones to begin with. Clearly the mistake of the architect was to not include keystones in the addition as well.
hmm i dont know. it’s so fugly that it’s actually kinda cute. it also totally looks like one of those orange creamcicle push pops.
*rob*
Seriously ugly – I think the person responsible needs to stand up and explain himself.
That building went and got itself a beer helmet!
Hey, it’s got keystones.
Park Sloper – zoning regulates things like set back from the street, overall height, setbacks of upper stories, etc., but provides no aesthetic regulation. (This is in an R6B (aka “contextual”) zone – so by City Planning standards, this building is “contextual”.)
Besides Landmarks, the only other agency that regulates aesthetics is the Public Design Commission (formerly the Art Commission), which regulates construction on city-owned property.
Park Sloper, I don’t think there is any agency responsible for this. As long as it passes zoning and building code, anything goes in a non-landmarked neighborhood.
I’d love to hear the thought process on this one. It really does look upside down, and is reminiscent of somewhere in the Middle East. Kinda looks like a giant inhaler with windows.