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Revealed: The Wild New Building on Franklin
The single-family home at 187 Franklin, designed by Jeremy Edmiston of System Architects, has been revealed—not quite fully, but enough to get a good sense of what the overall effect will eventually be. Enlarge the photos for a better look. (I’ll go back tomorrow to see if I can get shots without the reflected light on the facade. UPDATE 11/11: I added them at the end of the post.) And if you walk by to check it out yourself, note the way the oblique windows catch the reflections of various buildings—and how the effect changes as you move.
Now we just have to get inside….
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Rather Gaudi-esque.
I dig it.
Very beautiful and unique.
Looks like they are going to be getting glass balconies?
You mean the floor of the balcony? I don’t know. I’ll have to go look at the LPC permits posted at the site, because the LPC’s website doesn’t appear to include info from more than two years ago.
COFA 13-6390 describes them as “pierced metal balconies.”
Compare them to the metal floors of the baskets of fire escapes.
The floors, specifically, or the parts that we see up now?
There was no mention of glass balconies I read on the permit. I will post the link later when the system comes back up. That said, it doesn’t mean that the approved drawings do not show a glass floor; they might. A metal floor made of slats would be more in keeping with the district IMO.
187 Franklin Street LPC permit:
http://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/lpc/10.23.12/136250.pdf
This comes from another good search site for LPC permits: http://www.nyls.edu/cityadmin/
Gaudi was my first thought too. Love It !
Oh I don’t know…I guess it is fun. TriBeCa: home of the
single family elite. I hope they buy locally.
The architecture reminds me of Gaudi’s Park Guel. Love it.
Overall, yes, it’s interesting and ambitious. But am I the only person here who isn’t loving the window hardware?
I LOVE this building! It’s unique!
So tired of the same ugly “all glass” designs.
This building looks horrible! I can’t believe it got approved.