Sterling Place Crash Site Shaping Up Nicely
It looks like the new building on the site of the 1960 airplane crash at Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue is almost done. Unlike the new building across the street, this one is a contextual success (barring any last-minute flourishes!): Perfectly proportioned windows, unobtrusive brick choice, simple lintels. The two wild cards at this point…
It looks like the new building on the site of the 1960 airplane crash at Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue is almost done. Unlike the new building across the street, this one is a contextual success (barring any last-minute flourishes!): Perfectly proportioned windows, unobtrusive brick choice, simple lintels. The two wild cards at this point are how they will finish the bay window sections and whether they choose to add a cornice. This building was designed by the Manhattan-based Danois Architects. Anyone know anything else they’ve done? On a prior thread, a reader mentioned that this building will be condos while the uglier one across the street is a rental. That true? GMAP
Developments Rising at Sterling Place Crash Site [Brownstoner]
Please let us dummies know what historicosity means and then maybe we’ll answer your question.
I agree with Linus completely. It’s better to go modern. I find attempts to match period buildings in Brooklyn to be failures, and ugly ones at that. You have to go very very high-end with your materials to do that, and none of these condo developers are spending that kind of money.
I thought I would be the only one who didn’t like this. It reminds me of the ugly new apt building by the Park at 9th Street. Yeah, the windows are lined up and similar size, yeah, there’s brick, and maybe that makes it “contextual” by whatever committee these buildings had to get past (is this block landmarked?). But it’s also dull and institutional looking. It’s not unlike some of the new additions on Methodist Hospital.
People dissed that “uncontextual” modern townhouse with the metal cladding a few days ago, but here I’d rather see something noncontextual and imaginative that this lump of blah.
Both buildings are ugly.. that is my opinion…better than fedders but not by much.
OUCH! You dissed the B-man! Nit, since you are an architect, please shed some light on this matter for us.
I was looking at the crash building yesterday when walking home from the Slope and the absence of cornices makes it stand out from the surrounding buildings. I think it needs them. And by the way, I never understood people in PS complaining about strollers until I tried to do some shopping yesterday. Yikes! I fled.
“Perfectly proportioned windows” what? I am actually not sure what you mean by this but they are certainly not historically contextual proportions. go back to another architecture class as the Learning Annex before you play architecture critic.
Read link to archives on bldg across street….and in that entry don’t you say you like the building? Now you’re saying it is ugly?
You said- “Our verdict? Looks fine. It looks like the developers are even taking pains to create some terra cotta (?) panels underneath some of the windows that from this angle appear reasonably authentic.
I think the ones on Corcoran are further up the block between 7th and Flatbush.