Pelli Tower Proposed for Greenpoint Waterfront
Something about this seems so 2006! A first-time developer (but former lawyer for The Donald) is proposing building two tall residential towers, annexing streets and building piers as part of a 890,000-square-foot, Cesar Pelli-designed project on India Street near the East River in Greenpoint; the waterfront portion would also include sand dunes and wetlands. Countless…
Something about this seems so 2006! A first-time developer (but former lawyer for The Donald) is proposing building two tall residential towers, annexing streets and building piers as part of a 890,000-square-foot, Cesar Pelli-designed project on India Street near the East River in Greenpoint; the waterfront portion would also include sand dunes and wetlands. Countless approvals would be needed at the city and community level for this thing to happen, but the concept did get a warm reception from one not easily taken in by developers’ visions of grandeur: It’s a beautiful project with a hard sell, said Ward Dennis, chair of local Community Board 1’s land-use committee. What the community needs to decide is where that balance is between density and open space and affordable housing. And really, that’s what all of these projects come down to. Waddya think? Crazy or just so crazy it might work?
Greenpoint Rising [Architect’s Newspaper]
Introducing the Latest Crazy Greenpoint Waterfront Plan [Curbed]
it would be so great if we could pass some legislation that would limit building heights in Brooklyn to no more than like 12 stories…like D.C. or Paris, etc.
yea this is bullshit. i’ll be happy to throw the first brick through the pretty glass.
btw, denver doensn’t really have a waterfront to speak of – ever been? It’s basically in the desert. So ‘take that shyte back to denver’ doesn’t even make sense. But hey, as long as you guys are amusing yourselves….
well you know the old saying, ugly is in the eye of the beholder.
*rob*
I recognize the Con Ed tower in that mountain so I’m guessing squaredrive is correct…
well if that’s the case, squaredrive, they need to do a better job at rendering. sorry but it still looks like mountains to me. very bob ross-ish in fact! the future of NYC: trade all our avante-garde and precient artists for colonies of Bob Rosses. barf!
*rob*
Don’t mean to piss on the cynical parade over here, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say those are trees and buildings, not mountains.
holy crapola tyburg, youre right :-/ they couldnt even bother taking out the mountain backdrop! pathetic. dont even get me started on the ubiquitous eco-zombies in these kinds of renderings.
*rob*
Hahaha… in the rendering, it actually looks like a Denver scene — complete with mountains in the background!
im not a fan of all the waterfronts in the city turning into such banal little yuppie enclaves. it’s just not my idea of nyc, take that shyte design back to denver.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at November 3, 2009 9:21 AM
What Rob said.