Development Watch: 110 4th Avenue
We’ve been checking out the development site at 4th Avenue and Warren Street for around six months now, where a crew’s been readying the foundation for a 49-unit building called the Park Slope Court (see rendering on jump). Tona Development, which had a hand in the Novo and Hotel Le Bleu, is behind the planned…
We’ve been checking out the development site at 4th Avenue and Warren Street for around six months now, where a crew’s been readying the foundation for a 49-unit building called the Park Slope Court (see rendering on jump). Tona Development, which had a hand in the Novo and Hotel Le Bleu, is behind the planned 58,000-square-footer. The building’s a Scarano design that’s slated to have interiors by Andres Escobar, who also worked on Le Bleu. Like the looks of it? GMAP DOB
Actually, I think there is retail on the ground. those are big, albeit frosted, windows on the ground floor. It actually looks like a perfect spot for a ….. BANK!
Guest 1:10 is right– this is emphatically not a Modernist building (as distinguished from “modern” or “new”). This building is from the current school of architecture known as Shit Sandwich, albeit not the shittiest of all possible sandwiches. Modernism was a movement that happened mid-century, and it had definite principles; form following function, clean, simple lines, lack of purely decorative ornament, and most definitely, high quality (and probably many others–I’m not an architect). Think Mies, Neutra, Bauhaus, Eames, Le Corbusier, etc. This building’s greatest flaw, IMO, aside from not providing retail on the ground floor, is its mishmash of cubes stuck here and there with little rhyme or reason, those circular windows for no particular reason, its hulky clunkiness and lack of elegance in proportion. Hey, Architect in Brooklyn, care to elaborate?
By the way, many people on this blog LOVE contemporary work when it’s done well, like the oft-cited 14 Townhouses, including those of us who live in ancient piles. I, personally, like to mix an old house with contempo furniture.
Where did you find that rendering??
1:20. I was warming up to this. I am hitting my stride. I am raising the bar. I am firing on all cylinders. I’m shooting for the moon. I am over the rainbow. I am looking for a miracle. I am laughing to beat the band. I am dancing on a cloud. I am floating on the air. I am going for the gold. I am running for the roses. I am high upon a hilltop. I am twisting the night away.
Thanks for following my stuff so closely
Yours truly,
12:50
I can only imagine what they’ll be charging for the unobstructed views of the KFC
“They pay little attention to context, street life, or the craft of building.”
context? you mean staples and a taxi depot?
street life? three homeless people??
craft of the building? this is the best on the avenue.
Yay, more new rentals coming to 4th!
12:50 – Didn’t you basically make this same post yesterday? It was funny once but it pales on the retelling.
4th Avenue … deh deh neh … more than meets the eye.