Oct 04 2006

Real Estate as Ugly as You Suspected

Published by Erin at 11:05 pm under Carroll Gardens, Neighborhood, Real Estate

You know how sometimes, you think "Wow that’s ugly, but it’s just in the construction phase. I’m sure they have some great plans for that space." And you keep walking by, and it keeps being ugly. And then one day you walk by and they have an artist’s rendering, and it’s just as ugly as you suspected? Welcome to 45 3rd Place, "Luxury Living."

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11 Responses to “Real Estate as Ugly as You Suspected”

  1. # Dennison 04 Oct 2006 at 11:21 pm

    The addition looks like a brain sucking alien parasite

  2. # elizabethon 05 Oct 2006 at 12:01 am

    I just noticed that sign up there today. Really, you have an expert opinion here; that’s ugly!

  3. # luluon 05 Oct 2006 at 12:18 pm

    ugh! i just noticed that today, also. what a ridiculous design. and what a way to destroy a beautiful old house. such a shame.

  4. # Adamon 05 Oct 2006 at 4:27 pm

    Are you saying I shouldn’t have bought one of these units?

  5. # jameson 05 Oct 2006 at 7:08 pm

    this project is exactly what makes the world go ’round. the area could use a little more imagination and less ragged,old italians. it’s either ‘boo’ to the fedders people or ‘boo’ to something new. i guess blogging would be so tiresome if people couldn’t complain about the least important things in life.

  6. # yuppiescumon 05 Oct 2006 at 8:59 pm

    i love it!
    it’s modern and still has character that looks back to the good old days, while being contemporary and fresh.
    thats why i bought my unit there
    email me for photos: http://www.dieyuppiescum@wallstreetscumbag.com

  7. # Daveon 06 Oct 2006 at 9:59 am

    I haven’t seen this house in person, but I don’t think it looks so bad. I’ve seen much worse go up in Park Slope.

  8. # CG Hoboon 06 Oct 2006 at 10:01 am

    Progress is a good thing, bad design is not. While massing wise there is not much wrong with this addition, its location on a corner and its choice of materials and opening locations really make it a bomb. I will wait to see the completed project, being an architect I can attest to factors outside our control that can turn a beautiful piece of architecture into a big steaming pile of dog crap. Factors like zoning laws, shoty contractors or vendors, developer’s budgetary changes, tasteless client demands, just to name a few..
    I live a block away. And don’t think this helps the neighborhood visually at all; maybe financially. (Which is synonymous to beauty to some folks).
    Fially anyone that says get rid of the Italians you need to wise up. I would take a little old italian lady next door than some yuppie prada scum or no talent arty hipster . Don’t get me wrong I like yuppies and arty hipsters but if I wanted to live on the upper west side or williamsburg I would!).
    check this out if you haven’t for a good example to a modern town house. after W&T’s townhouse for Jerry Speyer, it’s one of the best I’ve seen in this city. http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4639

  9. # elizabethon 06 Oct 2006 at 2:19 pm

    CG Hobo said it right. I am also an architect (if you didn’t catch that already) who personally loves modern design but has also done my fair share of historic preservation and adaptive reuse (converting an old warehouse to lofts etc.). There are a few rules that I follow when trying to fit a new project into an existing fully functioning neighborhood. #1 Follow all massing rules already established in the neighborhood. That means setting the building back from the road the exact distance as all the other buildings around it. Keep it about the same height, size, shape etc. #2 Use similar materials, even if you use them in a totally different, new way. #3 Use details that are around the same shapes and sizes as those existing in the neighborhood, again, even if you make them modern. It takes a really skilled architect to break from these rules (it can be done) and make it universally pleasing. I would say there is also a time and place for modern design (which I love, remember) and this old house is just simply not the place. I agree with Dennis on the brain sucking alien parasite comment. Very leach-like.

  10. # elizabethon 06 Oct 2006 at 2:22 pm

    Oh…and after studying that rendering, I feel like it looks MUCH worse in person than it does on that image.

  11. # brendan Kennedyon 24 Oct 2006 at 12:06 am

    im so glad you hate that ugly ass cement block.
    i said the same thing walking my gay dog by that place every day.
    just like i say about dunkin donuts and that staten island ass who put them there.
    seriously
    these are not how you “improve” the neighborhood.
    cvs, bank, luxury, bank, cvs.. donut
    what the fuck its like long island city out here.