BK Developers: What Are They Thinking?
Biking around the South Slope last week, the horror of this ground-floor design at 245 16th Street jumped out at us, which is really saying something on a block that has its fair share of ugly new buildings. The strangely angled modern window juxtaposed with the traditional-style interior wood railing is a real head scratcher….
Biking around the South Slope last week, the horror of this ground-floor design at 245 16th Street jumped out at us, which is really saying something on a block that has its fair share of ugly new buildings. The strangely angled modern window juxtaposed with the traditional-style interior wood railing is a real head scratcher. A quick perusal of this developer’s other designs shows that this one’s not an aberration. In all honesty, we can’t understand how anyone could have such bad taste. This stuff is horrendous and, project by project, ruining the landscape of the neighborhood.
245 16th Street [BK Developers] GMAP P*Shark
Brownstoner said: “This stuff is horrendous and, project by project, ruining the landscape of the neighborhood.”
Right….because the landscape of South Slope hasn’t been ruined already by the vinyl-sided houses, large tenement apartment buildings, and hideous storefronts.
Hilarious! Really truly can’t believe that line about one new building “ruining the landscape” of South Slope wasn’t purely sarcasm. Come on people, South Slope is not Park Slope. South Slope is on its way to becoming all new development. That is its future. It is not a precious, historic, landmarked area. Which is okay. Embrace what it is for what it is.
Thanks, cmu. I was beginning to feel awfully lonely — 12:28/2:53
Checked out the rendering. Seems to me that the building matches the adjoining buildings on both sides, unless it’s a bad image, so I don’t see what 1:04/1:43 is saying. In fact, it seems it matches an uneven street wall on both sides.
While not totally to my taste, it seems to be a fairly interesting design. Weird-pretty. Not everything, landmarks board to the contrary, has to be like they built them in 1842. And I like the colors too, brownstone everywhere is so boring.
I just bought a new 745i beamer but realize I really should have used more of my year end bonus for the V-12 750iL because I can afford it and I have three parking spaces at the union street car co-op.
If you can’t afford a private garage spot for your “Beamer,” what’s the point?
i guess no worries – the types of lawsuits this thing will attract from kids on razors braking thru the probably tempered but certainly not laminated glass will land any owner of this building in chapter 11 anyhow. so it’ll be a steal for the next person to redo.
Brownstoner has time to “bike around the S. Slope”?
I will take the hard working immigrants over you pretentious idiots any day. Now go and circle your block for an hour to find a spot for your beamer and go away.
They were thinking they will enjoy replacing those windoes evey spring when some ice comes off the roof and breaks them every winter. Dumabasses.