Scaffolding Down at Greenpoint's Pencil Factory
We hadn’t realized that work had continued on the Pencil Factory conversion in Greenpoint after the project’s developer defaulted and the site was shut down in May. According to Curbed, it has continued, and the scaffolding recently came down. How does it match up to the rendering (above)? We’ll let you decide. Click here for…
We hadn’t realized that work had continued on the Pencil Factory conversion in Greenpoint after the project’s developer defaulted and the site was shut down in May. According to Curbed, it has continued, and the scaffolding recently came down. How does it match up to the rendering (above)? We’ll let you decide. Click here for the match up.
Rendering/Reality: Greenpoint’s Pencil Factory Condos [Curbed] GMAP
Ha Rob, it’s obvious you have a soft spot for the underbitch.
looks like a typical park slope mom to me. i dont know WHAT you guys’ problem is!
*rob*
ditto–I’m with you. Doesn’t bother me.
I used to work for the architect many years ago, and I think his work has gotten better over time. The rendering on his site indicates that the base wall has some transparency, which is unclear in the photo with the scaffolding. I actually find Dan’s design sophisticated in a playful way, but have not seen the building in real life. One reason I like it is that it respects the scale of the buildings around it, alway a nice feature. Architecture is hard, believe me I know, so I am willing to give this one the benefit of the doubt. The imagery on the building’s website, well that’s another issue…
at least there’s no juliette balconies.
I don’t know whats wrong with me – but i don’t hate it.
i really want to sit for a drink with the people that design these things and feel really good about it when they look at it. just curious as to what sort of people they are, what they find stylish, and what they think of bklyn.
What was on the right of the original factory when they began? This doesn’t look like a rehabbed building on the right, it looks new, for lack of a better word. They would have been better off just converting the old factory on the left, and not tried to get creative. It looks like the Holiday Inn I stay in, way upstate, when I visit my Dad. That wasn’t a complement.
Wow. Just wow. Anyone living within eyesight of this joint should sue the developer and architect for intentional infliction of emotional distress (yes folks, that is a real tort!). If I lived over there, I’d buy a unit *in* this place so that when I looked out the window, I wouldn’t be looking *at* this place.