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
why don’t you all just get in your time machines and make your way back to “the good old days”? is every brownnoser nut commenting on this site blind to the fact this slum is improving?
Problem is not architect and not developer; it is faulty zoning R6 witch allows this kind of design.
(You can blame Robert Moses and other modernist from half a century ago)
Fort Greene association is pushing to change zoning from R6 to R6B that would eliminate this kind of out of scale developments.
http://www.historicfortgreene.org/r6b.html
At this point it is kind of a race: is developer going to have it approved before zoning will change.
It does not meter if someone like it or not (personally I think it is not so bad) it is OUT OF SCALE and it will affect Fort Greene historic district.
I think i’d personally throw a stone through every ugly window of that building if they build that monstrocity. good lord
I wonder if the address is correct because I heard of a 25-28 story tower going up on Fulton & Ashland (where the Hot Yoga studio used to be). Could there possibly be 2 towers that high going up on Fulton?
That’s disgusting. What a crackpot architect! When are they going to revoke this man’s license?
a. it’s a cool looking building.
b. it could be bait and switch (like the “Light Towers” in Dumbo)
this totally fills me with remorse. yuck. it’s really a “there goes the neighborhood” moment for me. why don’t we start a pool to bet on where the next duane reade will be. probably that old bodega on s. elliott and lafayette.
So clearly I’m in the minority here because I think that is the ugliest piece of s#$! that I have seen in a long time. Then of course I went to the website and realize that they were responsible for the monstrosity on Greene Ave. What happened to architecture that was in keeping with the rest of the neighborhood. 190 foot tower in that area is just way out of scale and starts to make the neighborhood look like it was designed by Lego.
Is it the corner of Not Ray’s Pizza? Wasn’t that group of buildings for sale? Wasn’t Minsky the broker for that?