Thanks. Behind a paywall, so here’s one that’s not:
A quick report from the ground:
- CARROLL & NEVINS - RENDERING ON FENCE:
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- DEGRAW & NEVINS - RENDERING ON FENCE:
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- BUTLER & NEVINS - RENDERING ON FENCE:
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- PRESIDENT BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH AVE - RENDERING ON FENCE:
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- UNION & 4TH AVE - RENDERING ON FENCE:
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Great update @Alemel ! Thanks.
Awesome update!
BIG, side by side with Herzog and de Meuron, way to go, Brooklyn!
That BIG proposal sounds like a nightmare to upkeep. I also wonder how that is going to work if it’s an apartment building, I wouldn’t want random people just walking by my window all the time.
The program and massing of the tower also narrows so much at the top I wonder how vertical circulation will work out.
It would be like living in a first floor apt. on a busy street. I doubt it will ever be built as designed. Although I must say this size development is where he shines.
I would assume you’re making the connection between his Copenhill Power Plant building and this one? I think the big difference in that instance is that is a Powerplant, so one wouldn’t need to worry about people inside the building.
@GSPLover That’s true just maybe minus the vehicular traffic noise. I think the concept is fine for the commercial parts of the building, but not necessarily the residential parts. It seems too intimate, though that may not be the right word I’m looking to use. I just still think upkeep is going to be absurd and constant like at Little Island, which is ok because that’s a park by itself, not a building with residents and workers in it.
I’m not bagging on the design, just the ramp vegetation aspects and the division of program. I think the design overall is interesting, and the use of what seems to be Corten steel framing will go nicely with the Gowanus industrial feel.