Brooklyn Buyers Dominating On Prospect Park Sales
It’s been a while since we checked in with ye olde OPP. So how’s it been going? According to the sales office, the House that Richard Built is 30 percent sold, more than had been expected at this stage (move-in’s not ’til Fall 2008). There was a cocktail party last week at which recent buyers…
It’s been a while since we checked in with ye olde OPP. So how’s it been going? According to the sales office, the House that Richard Built is 30 percent sold, more than had been expected at this stage (move-in’s not ’til Fall 2008). There was a cocktail party last week at which recent buyers got to mingle with bigwigs from the nearby cultural institutions. (Just think of all the potential donations!) Perhaps the most interesting fact we learned was that most purchasers have in fact been Brooklynites, clearly not what the developer Mario Procida anticipated given his decision to locate the marketing office in Tribeca. Does it surprise you that Brooklyn buyers are leading the charge? As for current pricing, there are a number of units listed on Corcoran (including this $6 million rock star pad) at per square foot prices of between $1,500 and $2,000. Quite something, then again there’s nothing like it.
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4:36,
Because Meier deserves more than a one-line glib comment, if only for his past greatness.
while i can rationalize that there are those people who don’t like this building, think it’s all hype and have a differing viewpoint than i do, what i don’t understand is that it’s built now…here it is…in our neighborhood. do we continually bash it because some think it overpriced and hope that it sits on the market with not a single buyer or do we embrace the fact that it was an empty lot, this is a special building in the fact that it represents a milestone for a “starchitect” to have had so much confidence in brooklyn to put his name on this.
looking back on things, i certainly have nothing but good things to say about salvador dali, although every piece may not strike me to my core, i surely respect his body of work and appreciate that it exists.
i think (or rather hope) that the same will be true of a building like this.
of course i’m romanticizing it a bit here, but i don’t think this building is as bad as some people want to say. i think we’ve got a lot of people on here who think that anything with glass on it sucks, and that just isn’t fair.
And to say what you just said is really just equivalent to saying “I like modern.”
Yawn.
Anywho, back to the building: anybody that thinks this building is out of scale should go to the former Madonna Residence at Union and PPW, then walk clockwise on Plaza, and then up Eastern Parkway to Washington. I like this building because the scale is compatible with its context, because its boxiness works well with the same quality of some of the older brick apartment houses, and a corner site on GAP is a good place for showy architecture. To say a ‘Fedders box’ would be preferable (or some of the other more inane comments) says nothing more than, ‘I don’t like modern.’ A person doesn’t have to like a style to appreciate whether it has been done well or not, although said person does have to understand it.
I’m feeling guilty about my earlier facil “housing project for the rich” post and would like to expand it.
I think the building is very disappointing. Meier is (was?) a great architect, but it seems to me that, in his old age, he’s just trading on his past reputation and building one boring box after another. (Sort of the Salvador Dali of the architecture world). The building is OK–not really terrible, and, I’m sure. very well fitted out–but IMO people who pay a premium for the Meier name are falling for the hype. Also, from what I’ve read, Meiers’ Perry Street buildings are really badly built, with water running down the inside of the front walls when it rains. I wonder if OPP will be any better?
What happened to the days when conspicuous consumption at least got you something outstanding?
OTOH, perhaps my attitude is just a case of sour grapes:-)
Give Brownstoner a break — he has never been overly censorious on the site, so give him the benefit of the doubt, 3:55 and others.
Are we sure on the Fall 08 move in date? It seems a long way off considering that the building is being sheetrocked now.
All in all this sure beats a parking lot and 99% of other buildings that could have gone up on that site. The massing is spot on, the detailing is clean, and I don’t see any Fedder AC’s.
3:46, i think that would get noticed pretty quickly around here.
Something like that, 3:35.