Stable Update: Scarano's Appetite for Destruction
According to a reader who lives next door (and documented by the photos above), the demolition of the entire Bond Street hay stable is a fait accompli. Our source claims that this is another project by the poster child for what many believe is wrong with the Brooklyn development boom, Scarano & Associates Architects. Scarano…
According to a reader who lives next door (and documented by the photos above), the demolition of the entire Bond Street hay stable is a fait accompli. Our source claims that this is another project by the poster child for what many believe is wrong with the Brooklyn development boom, Scarano & Associates Architects. Scarano apparently already submitted–and had rejected–a set of plans for low-rise condos on the site (which until recently was a motorcycle repair shop). But it looks like the BOD rejection hasn’t slowed their appetite for destruction down at all. “Just another case of greedy developers with ill-conceived plans,” says our source. So what’s in store for the site now?
Addendum: Check out the story in this week’s Brooklyn Paper for more color on the situation.
Farwell to Bond Street Stable [Brooklyn Papers]
Preservationists Say “Neigh” [Brownstoner]
Hay Long Gone, Stable Follows Suit [NY Times]
what’s that cool looking round building with a red roof in the background of picture #1?
for a taste of scarano’s work go look at 60 tiffany place…blech!
NY Magazine article about neighborhoods
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/features/realestate2005/12018/index16.html
please pass the information on dude.
Anybody in Boerum Hill got a camera? Can document the eventual Scarano monstrosity going up on Warren st. between Smith and Hoyt, next to the Warren St. Medical Center For Children & Adults, across from the school.
jesus christ, the only thing scarano knows how to maximize is the utilization of crap. i think you can blame developers and architect equally for a space like, say, the $900-a-sq-foot blot on north 7th street. the developer for the overall concept, budget, etc., and scarano for the tasteless — and not particularly functional — design. oh wait, i guess you should also blame whoever actually paid $900 per sq foot, assuming that’s the price they really got.
A glowing review of Scarano is here:
http://www.therealdeal.net/issues/May_2005/1114618682.php
In reference to local architect’s point about blaming the developer, not the architect, this quote is interesting: “They’re innovative, and he’s what I like to call a developer’s architect,” said Strategic principal John Frezza. “They know how to maximize the utilization of space.”
Fair point, local architect, in any particular instance. But at a certain point, if you lie down with dogs enough times, you’re going to wake up with fleas.
Not that I agree with the destruction of what was a wonderful stable building, nor am I a huge fan of Scarano projects, but to blame the architect is misguided. You should blame the developer! That’s who’s paying the architect.
Though I recognized the site – that was where I used to get my bike fixed. Brooklyn Motocycle Works was located mid-block on Bond Street (where the roll down gate is in photo 2). They weren’t in the stable part though.
First, we get called on our Hip Hop usage and now this! Okay, okay. It’s been a few years, our French is a little rusty…