Silver Phallus To Tower Over Fort Greene
And you thought the Greene House condominium was tall? Get a load of what Scarano & Associates is plotting for the corner of South Portland and Fulton in Fort Greene: A 190-foot, 80,000-square-foot mixed use tower with medical offices, parking, retail and, of course, apartments from which residents will be able to wave to their…
And you thought the Greene House condominium was tall? Get a load of what Scarano & Associates is plotting for the corner of South Portland and Fulton in Fort Greene: A 190-foot, 80,000-square-foot mixed use tower with medical offices, parking, retail and, of course, apartments from which residents will be able to wave to their friends in Bruce Ratner’s high-rises. In praise of its own design, the firm’s website offers this architecture-speak:
Most residential or office towers are static objects in the city’s skyline, marked by typical floors and repetition. The design concept for this unique project, presents the residential building from a different perspective: it is developed in way to provide the tower with movement and keep the structural forces evident.
Thank God we live in an historic district.
South Portland Tower [Scarano Architectss] GMAP
Totally out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood. Aside from the fact that it looks like something out of “The Chronicles of Riddick”. While I don’t particularly like most modern architecture, I understand it has its place in a modern city. Fort Greene is not that place.
I don’t hate the look. Just the location.
This building would be more in appropriate standing in the desert next to Arcosanti, or in a Hong Kong suburb.
Curious – the Calatrava tower – a similar structure by the same architects – has won rave reviews for being one of the most innovative designs to get built in Manhattan in a long time. I saw it referred to in an article with a title to the effect of “Design is Back” or something like that, which went on to gush that buildings like this are what makes the NYC skyline so great. Feels a little different when it’s around the corner. Is FG really getting that upscale???
this is one of the ugliest structures i’ve ever seen! i cannot believe some of the favorable comments on here! you must be smoking what the architects are smoking!
my bet is that it is for the corner of Not Ray’s.
BOO!
To annon 10 47
Slum is improving without towers like this, just take a walk and see how many buildings are being rehabilitated.
Hideous, but what do you expect from the “architects” who will go down in history for bringing the vegas lightshow to DUMBO?
obviously anon 10.57 does not live in FG. FG is not a slum by any stretch. When brownstones are fetching $1.5-$2MM plus and the area is full of restaurants, cafes and new boutiques, slum does not come to mind.
anon 10:57, Darth Vader is getting very mad at you!
First thing we do, let’s kill all the (modernist) architects.