Modern on Prospect Place
When we noticed a four-story home about to be built on the lot at 94 Prospect Place, we were unsure how the finished product would look considering the street is outside of the Park Slope Historic District. It looks like developers took advantage of that freedom: the design is totally modern, right down to the…
When we noticed a four-story home about to be built on the lot at 94 Prospect Place, we were unsure how the finished product would look considering the street is outside of the Park Slope Historic District. It looks like developers took advantage of that freedom: the design is totally modern, right down to the stoop. Do you like?
New Building in Pipeline for 94 Prospect Pl. [Brownstoner] GMAP
Bob — I know this is late, but that it is not the same building. The lot at 94 Prospect has been empty for at least 20 years and probably more.
The day after tis item appeared Brownstoner showed a photograph of the building it replaced:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2010/07/closing_bell_pa_8.php?comments=10#comments
I withdraw my faint praise for the modern building; the original was VASTLY better and IMO replacing it with this thing was an act of vandalism.
I’ve seen the building. It didn’t look cheap to me.
How much does one of these cost to build? How fast was the construction process from start to finish?
Am I looking at the same photo everyone else is looking at? Because this looks like some cheap speculator special. And everyone is talking about it like it’s a “Work of Architecture”.
I’m really curious now. I’m going to go have a look in person.
umm – obviously this building is not an imaginative and bold rethinking of a NY brownstone. Such a building would look wildly out of context because material choices and organizational priorities would be different. It would also probably not be a “fedders”, since the whole point of a “fedders” is to go to the lumberyard, find the cheapest stuff, and put it together using the least skilled and lowest priced labor available. It costs $$ to boldly rethink. Basementalist isn’t far off the mark. This home will probably serve its owners well. If I had to guess at their direction to the architect, they probably wanted “something modern, yet contextual.” Design direction that starts off as a compromise will always result in a ho hum building.
Imaginative & bold rethinking = Fedders building.
I gotta see it in the flesh before passing judgement. Although I’ve walked past this address many times, the exterior cladding must have gone up quite recently. It didn’t look too impressive in its earlier iterations so I’ll be curious to see whether this transforms it in a positive way.
But an actual “imaginative rethinking” would have likely (probably with 66% certainty) looked out of place and disrupted even more the streetwall on this side of the block. Clearly the owner did not want that and decided to go with something that will still be unique but also blend in some more.