I suppose the new condo building at 346 Sackett Street, between Court And Smith Street, could have turned out a lot worse. That is not saying much. As it is, the rather plain, unadorned brick building looks out of context with the neighborhood. The windows could have used a sill and some eyebrows, the steel fence along the roof looks too industrial and the tropical wood cladding on the ground floor façade seems more like an afterthought.
How to make such a new building look just a tad less drab and a teeny bit more interesting? Why, plant bamboo. And lots of it. At least it will hide the first too floors of it, I suppose.
What this building could have used, much more than bamboo, is a cornice. Don't you agree, dear Reader?
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haha. This made me laugh.
Growing up, the lady next door to me had lots of bamboo. Let me just say, that stuff can get unruly. Completely out of control. You couldn't even see her house! But I digress...
I must say I do like the greenery but the condo could certainly use something around the windows and nicer door. Oh well.
I actually think this project is less intrusive, and more successful at fitting in than many other new "infill" buildings. It is most certainly better than the newish buildings just across the street from this, where the excessive scale of the stoops are not at all in keeping with neighborhood scale; the brownstone imitation details don't make up for the distorted scale.
The windows, on the building you are showing here, lack details of a traditional masonry buildings because it isn't a masonry structure. The plain windows are more "honest" as a result. And since the structure allows the facade of the building to be pretty much any material, it was nice of them to use a material that helps the structure infill an existing neighborhood of brick buildings.
That bamboo's not going in the ground, is it? Pretty sure that's illegal. It needs to be in containers...
Sure looked to me as though it was going straight into the ground.
I know that bamboo is highly invasive....
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