Construction continues on 12 Broome Street, a four-story residential building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by ABA Studio DPC and developed by Broome Residence LLC, the 4,728-square-foot structure will yield four units spanning between 1,040 to 1,324 square feet each. S. Goolcharan Construction is the general contractor of the property, which is located between McGuinness Boulevard to the east and Graham Avenue to the west.
Recent photos show the topped-out structure in the process of being framed out for façade installation, with some of its windows already in place. The building is covered in scaffolding and construction netting with the exception of the main northern elevation facing Broome Street.
12 Broome Street. Photo by Michael Young
12 Broome Street. Photo by Michael Young
12 Broome Street. Photo by Michael Young
The below rendering of 12 Broome Street was spotted on site and depicts a distinct design incorporating regular and inverted arches and a façade composed of white and charcoal-hued brick. Two balconies lined with dark railings are positioned on the western half of the main elevation, and a setback above the third floor leads to an upper terrace level and a mechanical bulkhead.
12 Broome Street. Photo by Michael Young
The nearest subway from the site is the G train at the Nassau Ave station to the northwest along Manhattan Avenue. Also nearby is the L train at the Graham Avenue station, at the intersection of Graham and Metropolitan Avenues.
12 Broome Street’s anticipated completion date is scheduled for this June.
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Reminiscent of the one in Flatbush from earlier this week…. Is this the new trend—“inverted arches”? With semicircles? Ugh.
Incredibly there is no cement in any of this structure.
Do you see the aluminum structure they are using after the steel beams were done.
what a piece of crap building.
Can’t get much worse than this.
Will you seriously just shut the f uck up and stop using the word “crap” all the time?!? You’re really stating to sound like an asshole more than someone with a constructive comment
This article is headlined:
’12 Broome Street’s Exterior Takes Shape In Greenpoint, Brooklyn.’
The reporter then optimistically offers:
‘Recent photos show the topped-out structure in the process of being framed out for façade installation, with some of its windows already in place.’
In my opinion, there is nothing the architects could possibly add to this eyesore that would improve its appearance. This is one of the ugliest buildings I have seen in many years, and that’s quite an accomplishment. In my opinion, the architects seem to have used every material and shape they could find in their architectural component catalogs in a desperate but ultimately unsuccessful effort to come up with something that appears ‘new’ and still trendy.
This is the sort of design that gives the profession a very, very bad name. In the end, it leaves me with the question was this structure actually designed by humans for humans? Was this thing the disastrous effort of some badly programmed AI device?
This area has a tremendous number of brick buildings. Why was a design respecting the neighborhood context not considered?
All they have succeeded in accomplishing is to make the rest of us miss the empty lot.
Maybe we could plant ivy? Or look the other way as we pass?
BoroDoug intelligently asked, ‘Is this a new trend? I pray to God it is not.
Just in case the thing with the arches is the final design, I prefer the exposed structure. The inverted arches resembles a 1970s Fern Bar.
‘Hello. My name is Chip. I’ll be your waiter tonight.’