Horror Show Friday: 170 Clermont Avenue
We just love what the developer has done with this this new four-story building at 170 Clermont Avenue. We’re dying to pick up one of those little eaves over the doorway for our place and that little nook he carved out to display the lovely Con Ed meters is to die for. And just imagine…
We just love what the developer has done with this this new four-story building at 170 Clermont Avenue. We’re dying to pick up one of those little eaves over the doorway for our place and that little nook he carved out to display the lovely Con Ed meters is to die for. And just imagine all the great parties the residents of the upper floors are going to be able to throw on their balconies. It’s great to see such creative, innovative design going on in Fort Greene! GMAP P*Shark
WHAT I LOVE about this building is the ability to walk right up to the front window and look right in!! Now that is a luxury. Its like being in your very own tv show with all the world watching. If this building is any thing like our other favorite building on Grand & Greene, next to Eddie’s furniture, then that bottom unit is a studio that only has that one window for light and ventilation. marvelous. that is really living.
I deal with photos and graphics everyday as a graphic artist/designer. All it takes is a ruler laid against the right edge of the molding to see that the window above the door is further over than the ones above. The position of the meter nook being so close to the center window and set back from the left edge is as obvious as the fact that the arch over the door is at the right edge of the building.
The top half of the building and bottom half look like they come from 2 different construction plans. That is not the fault of the photo nor the angle.
the windows are not off balance. it’s the person who took the picture who doesnt know how to take a picture. and even if the windows are a lil crooked. who cares. Brenda from the original 90210 had eyes like those windows and she was on 90210! asymmetry is in , no?!
and those windows are not crooked. go take a head on picture. i think that pic was taken like that to make it look like that.
*rob*
rob- I suggest you just ignore my posts since they bother you. That way I won’t have to explain why the exterior windows off balance will also be off balance on the interior and you won’t have to sound like a bigger fool than you usually do.
And my favorite two words…
[queue drum roll]
SHIT SANDWICH.
Haven’t any of you noticed that there was actually an attempt at a cornice at the top of this building???
And the choir goes “Amen.”
Don’t listen to SnarkSlope, Would like to see Brownstoner start doing a “Lowered Expectations” Monday morning post as well.
I’ll paste this here from the QOTD:
I suggest renaming this thread, “Things that make you go zzzzz.”
I understand Mr B’s point, but I think this thread is – in the end – as snarky and ineffectual as the “That’s Rather Hideous” posts on Curbed.
Is this virtual “Hall of Shame” of aesthetically challenged buildings going to change the mind of even one of the developers of said horrors?
Of course not. It’s preaching to the choir.