525 Clinton Gets Its Glass On
The 13-story luxury tower rising on Clinton Avenue between Atlantic and Fulton just started to get its glass skin. As we’ve mentioned before, we think this building will be great for the hood, particularly as a draw for new retail and restaurants along Fulton Street. Anyone know when this is supposed to be done? 525…
The 13-story luxury tower rising on Clinton Avenue between Atlantic and Fulton just started to get its glass skin. As we’ve mentioned before, we think this building will be great for the hood, particularly as a draw for new retail and restaurants along Fulton Street. Anyone know when this is supposed to be done?
525 Clinton Avenue Looking Good [Brownstoner] GMAP
Tower Rising at 525 Clinton Avenue [Brownstoner]
there aren’t going to be any restaurants opening up. if there aren’t any now with all the brownstone gentrification + condo building, there aren’t going to be any coming. unless you count Fulton Thai restaurant. (which i am very grateful for and i order from there frequently)
you tell em 9:19 I’d much rather be associated with ratner and barclay at least they’re screwballs with a lot more money.
which probably is going to be a great view to someone, I think this building is great for this neighborhood, come on restaurants let’s open for buisness now!
STFU 7:07PM! You people have given up on Brooklyn while the vast majority of us have not! It’s no wonder why the anti-Ratner crowd has no support in the community. Have any of you guys met Dan Goldstein or Pat Hagen?!? What rational or reasonable person wants to be associated with these screw balls?!?!?
the new stadium and target.
The building looks like its gonna be made of quality materials, you got a train line there, not TOO close to b-ball stadium, good restaurants sure to follow (finally)…
but I guess my prob is the first thing I noticed is the front of the building FACES NOWHERE DESIRABLE.
Not facing Prospect or Fort Greene parks. Not facing financial district, Empire state, or even Bstone belt in FG or Bstuy!!! WTF is your view gonna be of?
Just went to look up a photo of Brooklyn Law School building, and I can understand why a lot of people would like it alongside its 100-year-old neighboring buildings. It looks nicely built, and I don’t dislike it. Still, IMO, from an architectural point of view, its mishmaswh of familiar styles (is it postmodern? Neo-classical?) contributes nothing new (as so few buildings do), and I think that’s a shame. I would rather see a radical contemporary building there–like, say, the amazing Rem Koolhaas library in Seattle or Portland, forget which. (Not a Gehry, I hasten to add–that guy seems to have exactly one idea.) But that’s just me. Cheers.
We’re all entitled to our opinions, and I love old buildings (and own/live in one) but for my money, I think it’s silly and almost never successful to attempt to make new buildings look liike old ones–with construction/materials/labor costs, it’s all but impossible to do it right. I don’t care whether a building matches its neighbors. I care that a building is interesting, made of quality materials, and approriately and interestingly responds to its surroundings. Having not seen this one in person, I can’t say whether it succeeds aesthetically, but it sure looks like somethign that would be an asset to this hood, no?
Just like the new edifice across from the Main Library on Eastern Parkway, this one will be sheathed in glass. Why can’t the architects be mindful of the surrounding architecture and design something that blends in? To see what I mean, check out the Brooklyn Law Schoopl’s building on Jerolemon Street next top the Municipal Building. It blends in perfectly.