Reply With QuoteWould someone like to start a letter-writing campaign about it? I would but I have had serious block for a while now. The letters would aim at eliminating the gates and possibly improving the design, but in no way stopping the development.
Clinton Hill Village
lmao. It does.Originally Posted by Schadenfrau
Would someone like to start a letter-writing campaign about it? I would but I have had serious block for a while now. The letters would aim at eliminating the gates and possibly improving the design, but in no way stopping the development.
Would have been a good idea but I feel it's already too late. This side of the neighborhood is still rather seedy and the developer probably attracted buyers with the sense of security the gates provide.
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481 Park Avenue
Project # 17
481 Park Avenue
6 stories 70 feet
Scarano & Associates Architects
Dev-Parkside Estates LLC
Residential
10 units 28,900 Sq. Ft.
Under Construction 2005-2006
http://www.scaranoarchitects.com/
Building in this community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn requires a knowledge of lifestyle that dictates the program and layout of the units within. Families numbering eight to twelve members typically reside in one apartment. Four to five bedrooms give the necessary space to these rapidly growing families. At 15 - 1900 sq. ft., they are larger than the majority of apartments being provided today and fill a niche that has been ignored by most builders.
All apartments have expansive kosher kitchens with separate Passover kitchens and dinette areas to accommodate the families. A separate dining room is the focus of the design layout. An oversized utility room containing a full size washer/dryer, water heater, furnace and air conditioning turns each apartment into a self-contained unit.
A variety of masonry colors and simple detailing and a stone base provide a contemporary look to this classically laid out building.
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104 & 110 Spencer Street
Project # 20 & 21
104 Spencer Street
5 stories 50 feet
Karl Fischer Architects
Dev-Esther Karpen
Residential
5 units 19,614 Sq. Ft.
Completed 2004
110 Spencer Street
5 stories 50 feet
Karl Fischer Architects
Dev-Esther Karpen
Residential
5 units 19,614 Sq. Ft.
Completed 2004
Brooklyn Builds: Housing in Our Community
Brooklyn Builds: Housing in Our Community is presented by Pratt Institute, in cooperation with Danny Simmons.
Moderator: Jeanne Lutfy, president, BAM Local Development Corporation
Ken Adams, president, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
Jon Benguiat, Planning and Development, Office of the Brooklyn Borough President
Deborah Howard, executive director, Pratt Area Community Council
Brad Lander, director, PICCED
Rhonda Lewis, executive director, Bridge Street Development Corporation
James Sanford, director, Community Development, Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation
Remember that vacant lot down the block? Chances are, a developer s building on it. The community garden? It may have gone the way of the dinosaur to make room for progress.
As pple flock to Brooklyn to work and put down roots, developers are building a new generation of housing and office buildings. Come meet some of the key players behind the building boom, as they engage in an open panel discussion on the pros and cons of Brooklyn’s evolution.
Tuesday, Feb 15, 05
6-8:00pm
Memorial Hall
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Ave.
Brooklyn
Admission is free, but seating is limited. For more info or to RSVP, call 718-636-3657 or email events@pratt.edu. For directions, go to www.pratt.edu/directions.
143-159 Classon Avenue
Project # 22
143-159 Classon Avenue
143-149 Classon Avenue/380 Park Avenue
5 stories 55 feet
Scarano & Associates Architects
Dev-Rosner Moses Partner
Residential
17 units 35,210 Sq. Ft.
Under Construction 2004-2007
http://www.scaranoarchitects.com/index.html
Development in Williamsburg has continued to grow and expand its boundaries. Dozens of projects have been approved with a variance or special permit, allowing manufacturing properties to be developed residentially. (This particular property was also subject to a rezoning to permit the development).
Classically designed buildings represent the prevalent style of these new structures. Introducing a modern design into this setting required a blending of styles to create a classically detailed modern icon. Masonry and cut stone clad the buildings body and base, while a standing seam creates a mansard, which covers the top floor, giving the building a lowered appearance.
Large family-style 3 -4 bedroom apartments with 1500 -1800 sq. ft. is the predominant unit, with amenities including both kosher and Passover kitchens and large laundry/mechanical rooms within the dining rooms and dinettes. Over 60% of the units have parking in an enclosed garage. Carriage and general bulk storage are also contained in the cellars of both buildings.
Efficiency of layout, a clean design and a generous amenity package helped the building sell out every unit within two weeks time.
Brooklyn Builds: Housing in Our Community
"Brooklyn BuildS: Housing in Our Community" was presented yesterday on Feb. 15 in the Memorial Hall @ Pratt Institute. I attended and it tackled some of the questions on how to effectively accomadate the need for housing and office space in the buregoining borough of Brooklyn.
This became a hand on discussing on the complex, and controversial, issues of housing and office development. The quess speakers were Adams, president, Brooklyn Chamber of Comerece; Jon Benquiat, director, Planning Development, Brooklyn Borough President's Office; Deborah Hoqard, executive director, Pratt Area Community Council; Rhonda Lewis, executive director, Bridge Street Development Corporation; and James Sanford, director, Community Development, Brooklyn Economic Development Coporation.
Brad Lander, director, Pratt Center for Community and Economic Development (PICCED), which released a report on inclusionary in New York City, who aslo joined the panel for this open discussing. Brad said "Neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn have seen remarkable real estate resurgence, with new commercial development downtown, and housing going up in every neighborhood. Much of the new housing is expensive, far out-of-reach of the average Broolynite, however, and rents are rising much faster than family incomes." He says forums like these are important becasue, "We must use every available tool to make sure that development leads to prosperity that is more broadly shared by the people of our borough."
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Clinton Hill Society
Clinton Hill Society
Community Landmarks People
Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005
7:00PM to 9:00PM
St. Lukes Lutheran Church
259 Washington Ave.
Between Dekalb and Willoughby Aves
Feature Guest Speaker: Andrew S. Dolkart
Speaking on Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Development of Clinton Hill
Andrew S. Dolkart holds the James Marston Fitch Professorship in Historic Preservation @ the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is an architectural City, with a special interest in his native Brooklyn. Indeed, he wrote the designation reports for the Clinton Hill and Fort Greene Historic and is presently working with the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project on a survey of Wallabout. Andrew is the author of the award-winning Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development and of the Landmarks Commission's Guide to New York City Landmarks.
Higgins Hall Center Wing/Connection
Higgins Hall Center Wing/Connection
61 St. James Place
4 stories
Steven Holl Architects in conjuction with Rogers Marvel Architects
Under Construction 2003-2005
For more information go to this already started thread:
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/sh...ins+north+wing
Pratt Institute Master Plan
Pratt Institute Master Plan
http://www.poly.edu/polypress/campus_life.cfm
Pratt Institute is working on an ambitious expansion program that includes a new architecture school building that was designed by Steven Holl, one of the people chosen to draw up site plans for a new World Trade Center complex. Part of the Pratt work is retail development.
Artistic merit
The school is building a 15,000 square-foot art supply store on Myrtle Avenue, anticipating that artists from all over Broklyn will shop there, as well as its students. Borough Hall did a study and found that more artists, architects and designers live in Brooklyn than in any other borough of the city.
Pratt's role in redeveloping the Myrtle Avenue retail corridor just beyond the gates of its campus is unusually hands-on.
It formed a local development corporation with business leaders that has cleaned up graffiti, added streetlights and planted trees. It joins in the open houses held to romance prospective tenants for vacant storefronts, an effort that has filled dozens of spaces.
Pratt President Tom Schutte says that for the sake of his students, he had to get involved. They needed places to shop.
"Students felt landlocked," Mr. Schutte says. "They felt they had no place to go."
BY LORE CROGHAN
http://www.rogersmarvel.com/
Campus Planning at Pratt Institute
Campus Facilities Plan 1999
Rogers Marvel recently completed a President's Report for Pratt Institute to guide the development of the campus and to establish parameters for campus planning. Rogers Marvel worked with senior staff, deans and standing committees to gather and analyze programmatic data. The Pratt trustees, administration and faculty will be consulted for additional information and project review input.
Another project @ Pratt.
Hanger Design Group NY Juan C. Matiz AIA, Class of 1994 is designing a new security booth at Pratt. I tried to access their website but I got nothing. I'll try later.
www.hangerdesigngroup.com
106 Clifton Place
Project #23
106 Clifton Place
104-106 Clifton Place
4 stories 40 feet
Simino Architects
Residential Rental
4 units 5,038 Sq. Ft. (x4)
Completed 2004
Ew. Does Simino have a website? They're responsible for at least 4 new buildings on Guider Avenue also, only one is bad though.
No I couldn't find one. Actually this building is better than the photo leads you to believe. The interior layouts are also nice.
104-106 Clifton Place
Project #23
Oh wow that is so cool. I know ppl who live there. I agree interior is nice.
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