Sackett Street Addition Now On Display
Months ago we showed you a glass addition under construction, but still covered up, at 463 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens. Now it’s out in the open, just in time for the springtime sun! Another Glassy Addition on Sackett [Brownstoner] GMAP
Months ago we showed you a glass addition under construction, but still covered up, at 463 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens. Now it’s out in the open, just in time for the springtime sun!
Another Glassy Addition on Sackett [Brownstoner] GMAP
dave’s done some traveling or has an old subscription to Nat Geo magazine.
It looks fine! Nothing could be uglier than the house next to it. This doesnt demonstrate the need for landmarking; actually it’s an argument against it in my book.
As I said in the last thread, this is really an updating of the traditional Greenwich Village studio addition. Yes, it is proportionally ungainly compared to the Village precedents because the historic building itself is so small.
But this looks to be well designed, and is certainly an improvement over the alternatives – be they fieldstone (both the buildings to either side look to be part of the same historic row) or the many, many other additions and remuddlings we’ve seen over the years.
Sure it could have been worse, but this architect is seriously tone deaf. Even setting this thing back 6ft and having a nice terrace in front of it would have minimized the feeling that this building has cancer. There are cool ways to mix old and new; this isn’t one of them.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/05/greathomesanddestinations/20110504-scotland.html#1
By kayemtee on May 13, 2011 12:54 PM
I am pleased to be living in a city where the value of small houses, originally built for working people, can rise in value enough to make economic sense to spend a fortune to add an ugly addition such as this. You can probably buy a house such as this an any number of old mill towns east of the Mississippi for less than the price of a new Chevrolet.
Are people still spoouting this sort of crap?????
Do people in paris spout this about the french countryside? Do people in Hong Kong spout this about the new territories? Do people in tokyo spout this about niigata???
It could look a lot worse-at least it slants back and makes a vague reference to the mansard type roofs you sometimes see on rowhouses. I just wish they had tried harder to make it a little more period contextual. I realize it disrupts the rooflines but I’m used to seeing blocks where the rooflines go up and down and I don’t necessarily mind that. Depends on the block though.
I am pleased to be living in a city where the value of small houses, originally built for working people, can rise in value enough to make economic sense to spend a fortune to add an ugly addition such as this. You can probably buy a house such as this an any number of old mill towns east of the Mississippi for less than the price of a new Chevrolet.
I am pleased to be living in a city where the value of small houses, originally built for working people, can rise in value enough to make economic sense to spend a fortune to add an ugly addition such as this. You can probably buy a house such as this an any number of old mill towns east of the Mississippi for less than the price of a new Chevrolet.
There have been greater aesthetic crimes. But there have been lesser ones, too. Certainly makes a case for landmarking.