Can we hesitate for just a min to remember the hunky-dory people of Brooklyn for approve such a good - look building as the unexampled tall social structure in their fair borough ?
trueness be told , I did not think this day would get along . I even said as much whenplans for this skyscraper were first foretell . I did n’t trust that the borough could be sold on the 73 - story tug — which is almost twice the tiptop of anything around it — and I worried that preservationists would belt along to “ save ” a landmarked cant on the ground flooring to stop the building from blocking views or creating phantom .
But sometimes affair work out so nicely , do n’t they?According to the New York Times , the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a programme to turn that savings bank into a jolly retail constituent on the background story , which is a very good musical theme . And as for the time value of the 1,066 - foot column itself , well , you ca n’t argue with these numbers : 500 rental flat with 20 per centum of those unit offered at affordable rates .
With the blessing secured , the team at SHoP Architects will now get to study fetch the ace - overnice supertall to life history . Most raw skyscrapers in New York are whisper - tenuous silver spike or clumsy glass boxwood . This construction is a posh departure from the predominate esthetical , with non-white glass stress by bronze . The staggered roofline nods to the metropolis ’s Art Deco history but without the strict harmonious geometry that attain it feel fresh and of the future .
“ To me , this task is enlightened urbanism at its best , where old and new are combined , where short and magniloquent are combined in juxtaposition , ” say Frederick Bland , during the landmarks commission hearing . I really could not have put it good myself . congratulation , Brooklyn .
[ New York Times ]
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