Wednesday, November 23, 2011
News Seven Possible Versions of Housing and Hotel in Brooklyn Bridge Park Revealed
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:51 PM
After much speculation and guesswork, preliminary designs by seven competing developers were revealed at a public presentation last night for the inescapable condos and luxury hotel that will be built behind Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The developers hoping to build on the coveted waterfront parkland are Extell, Starwood Capital Group, Toll Brothers, Two Trees, RAL Companies & Affiliates, SDS Procida and Dermot, and their architectural visions are all over the aesthetic map. Let's have a laugh look...
The stacks of pancakes, designed by FXFowle for developer Dermot Company:
The generic glass and brick patchwork, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle for developer Extell:
The suburban office park, designed by Cangelosi Design & Architecture for developer Robert A. Levine:
The peeling glass-and-concrete sandwich, designed by Leeser Architects for developer SDS Procida:
The shimmering domestic lighthouse, designed by Bernheimer Architects, Alloy Development, nArchitects for developers Starwood Capital with Alloy, Hamlin and Monadnock:
The "it's so generic I can't find anything to make fun of," designed by Rogers Marvel for developer Toll Brothers:
And last but not least, the moldy cheese grater, designed by WASA/Studio A Landscape for developer Two Trees:
No word on when a developer/architect team will be chosen, much less on when shovel will meet dirt, or when move-ins will begin. One thing's for sure: whatever gets built will look nothing like any of these designs.
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Whatever they pick should have all retail storefronting at street level to help activate the park. Jesus, that's like Urban Planning 101. The Leeser one is particularly bad, with a psychotic blank wall for most of the frontage.
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All of these designs are stuck in modernism. I don't understand it--have all other aesthetics and disciplines in architecture gone extinct or something? Can someone who is more informed about these design styles give us a primer on what really distinguishes each one from the other?
