Neighbors Upset by Latest Bed Stuy Rendering
A tipster sent us this article and rendering showing a luxury rental building planned for 410-416 Tompkins Avenue in Bed Stuy. The rendering has been circulating on private email lists and Facebook groups for days, and local residents and preservationists had few kind words for the design. “I must say the cracked looking windows is…
A tipster sent us this article and rendering showing a luxury rental building planned for 410-416 Tompkins Avenue in Bed Stuy. The rendering has been circulating on private email lists and Facebook groups for days, and local residents and preservationists had few kind words for the design.
“I must say the cracked looking windows is weird,” said one.
The plans call for 35 units on four lots, currently home to three two-story buildings. It will be called Hancock Manor, said the story. Last year, developer Vasco Ventures paid $2,625,000 for the properties, according to public records.
The rendering is one of several to appear lately that has local preservationists and residents concerned that the booming pace of development may be threatening to change the character of the neighborhood, one of the largest areas of intact 19th century row houses in the country.
What do you think of the design?
Vasco Ventures to Build 35 Luxury Units in Bed Stuy [Multi-Housing News]
Rendering via Multi-Housing News
Holy shit. That is just…. unbelievably ugly.
Does anyone know who the architect is?
Love this comment from ny curbed: This is what happens when an unsophisticated developer hires a talentless hack firm and instructs them to create a building with some pizazz. – You get a stock schlock box with some pro-forma balconies and then some meaningless crap applied superficially to jizz up the intellectually barren attempt at design. It, and its architects, are pathetic … truly pathetic.
Purple strobes sounds about right – cracked mirrored windows have that Medellín chic thing going on – coke dealer cool from the 80s. Needs more Lucite panthers, however, and non-functional columns. Maybe everyone living there must own a brace of black Whippets?
yes, this does scream 80s. the non-functional columns are def missing.
new bed stuy condos on nostrand and hancock:
http://www.hdwallpapersmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Falling-Building.jpg
Not sure how much Fred and Ginger would have liked this but this is probably my favorite Frank Gehry building.
Montrose Morris dictated neighborhood would be a dream come true!
Look any new building in West Village, UES, UWS or most of the new buildings NW DC and you will see great examples of contextual new buildings. Now even in Williamsburg developers are doing much better than before.
i like it