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
I’m sure I’ll get jumped on, but this house is modern for people who don’t like modern. As evidenced by most of the comments here, which boil down to, “Well, if you can’t build an exact replica of a 19th-century brownstone, which would be ideal, I guess this will have to do.”
An actual imaginative contemporary rethinking of a townhouse (e.g., with variation in the size of windows) would have been far better. Wasted opportunity.
I’ll grant that it’s better than a Scarano building, but that’s a pretty low bar.
I don’t think it looks so bad becuase I’m conditioned in my neighborhood to seeing ridiculous Scarano infill towering way above its neighbors on the street and shouting I’m cheapo.
I’m really surprised so many commenters like it. It looks awful to me; looks like 4th Ave. new construction. Detailing is horrendous. What’s with all these vertical seams between different facing sections? And I’ve never seen a brownstone with all those horizontal seams covering the entire facade above the base. And continuing *rob*’s office supply theme, it looks to me like one of those big erasers that’s pink on one end and gray on the other.
Was an architect even involved in this? Looks to me like some developer just slapped up a bunch of extra material.
If thought had been given to lintels and sills, it wouldn’t look modern anymore. They obviously weren’t TRYING to duplicate a brownstone, they wanted something clean and modern.
At least the windows and entry doors align with the adjoining structures; wish some thought had been given to
the sills and lintels.
I like it too. Wish all infill could have the same height, doors, windows, and stoop of their neighbors. Maybe the cornice is coming, along with a permanent modern staircase.
It could be better, but it does fit in with the block as a whole, which has a couple modern buildings. In fact, there is a residence across the street that is quite contemporary and wonderfully compliments the older brownstones of the neighborhood. 94 isn’t finished yet, so I would wait to judge it too harshly.
Also, I just notice on Google streetview that a couple of other house on this block (closer to Flatbush) appear to have a “floating” stairs on the stoop as well.
The pink house is missing it’s stoop and too “Italianate style” for my taste, prefer more angular lines for the lintels.