Big Plans for 79 7th Avenue
[nggallery id=”24566″ template=galleryview] The owner of a pair of one-story storefronts at 79-81 7th Avenue in Park Slope wants to tear them down and build a new two-story brick building in their place. First, though, the owner and his architects must convince the Landmarks Preservation Commission that the design is suitable for the historic district….
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The owner of a pair of one-story storefronts at 79-81 7th Avenue in Park Slope wants to tear them down and build a new two-story brick building in their place. First, though, the owner and his architects must convince the Landmarks Preservation Commission that the design is suitable for the historic district. They’re presenting at the LPC’s weekly meeting today. What do you think?
10/7/2008 Agenda [LPC] GMAP P*Shark
Oh man, i disagree, you sure popped the air out of my earlier thought that it looked lovely.
Now all I can envision is south-central-Indiana-(from where I hail)-neomodern-strip-mall bank. Thanks a lot!
“The beautiful big windows are not Park Slope. There is no other building on 7th Avenue in the neighborbood that looks like that.”
So we should tell all commercial buildings they have to burn more electricity just to match the teensy impractical windows of dark shadowy Victorian Brooklyn buildings? I disagree so profoundly with that.
Landmarking can’t go so far it stops the very necessary and much more important considerations like a need for large windows to let in more light so people can use less electricity in an office to work by. And Landmarks needs to be open minded about things like solar panels on roofs, etc.
Form follows function and form follows ecological concerns too.
Fits in fine. Get building!
I am just thankful that itsn’t a 10 story building!
If they put arches on the top floor windows I’d be much happier.
i dunno. for some reason, this feels to me like a design that works in the rendering but will wind up looking like central california office park junk IRL. curious to know why they’re only going for 2 stories. are they restricted by limited FAR? and are there going to be 3 separate spaces on the ground level? seems kinda cramped to me but it’s hard to tell the dimensions from the images.
I live right in this immediate area, and I’m quite excited to hear news that something is finally moving on this space. I like the design and hope it gets approved. I also have high hopes that if the owner is doing a good job with the design, he/she will hopefully do an equally good job in finding a suitable tenant when the time comes. I suppose we are still a couple years away from that, though…
Do we think that these are apartments above the first floor? Looks more like office space, but can’t really tell…
Two issues:
* Should the commission approve something?
* Should it approve this design?
The answer to the first issue is obvious. These are not buildings worth preserving. Bad use of space, and unattractive, too.
But, as much as I like the design, I do not think that it is appropriate.
It is good looking, there will be a lot of light inside, it reminds me of a place I used to work in Boston. But it doesn’t fit. The beautiful big windows are not Park Slope. There is no other building on 7th Avenue in the neighborbood that looks like that.
And therefore, I would have the commission tell him that if he wants approval, he needs to make the building fit in much better.
We have been waiting for something to happen since the fire about 4 years ago. This design looks great!