NEW YORK | The Brooklyner | 514 FT / 157M | 51 FLOORS

RoldanTTLB · #1 Posted **Apr 29, 2009, 6:16 PM**

Hey, wiredny has a thread for this building, but we don't. Since I don't post photos at wiredny, but I do post them here, I think we see the problem. In any event, I can now see this building from my office, and I think it has a ways to climb still (and it can only get uglier).

Here's a few other things from the past:

Arch: Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel
J2 Residential
Stories: 51
Height: 514
Residences: 491
Gross SF: 456,082 Sq. Ft.

rendering care of brownstoner.com

And the latest shot from the ground in front (by Tectonic at wiredny):

ZZ-II · #2 Posted **Apr 29, 2009, 7:34 PM**

this is in brooklyn or am i wrong?

Roaming · #3 Posted **Apr 29, 2009, 7:56 PM**

Well It looks very ordinary. Not too ugly not too nicer.

Just a skyline filler.

RoldanTTLB · #4 Posted **Apr 29, 2009, 8:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by ZZ-II

this is in brooklyn or am i wrong?

It is in Brooklyn. I can change the thread title if everyone thinks it should be, but technically Brooklyn isn't its own city (I say that as the guy who lives in Manhattan...). Also, this will be the new tallest building in Brooklyn, surpassing the Williamsburg Savings Bank (One Hanson) by 2 feet.

NYguy · #5 Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 5:37 AM**

There was a thread here. It may also have gotten lost with the others.

philvia · #6 Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 2:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by RoldanTTLB

And the latest shot from the ground in front (by Tectonic at wiredny):

thats actually the most flattering picture i've seen of it so far.... i live a block from this and have to look at it everyday from my window

RoldanTTLB · #7 Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 6:02 PM**

One thing that struck me about this building - for how cheap it seems to be, and for how ugly it is, they are super committed to the pattern. I mean, look at the panes of glass on top of the support columns. That's crazy.

AJphx · #8 Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 11:27 PM**

dear god...

YSL · #9 Posted **Apr 30, 2009, 11:38 PM**

Ugh, ugly.

I don't get these stupid developers. Instead of putting up all these hideous buildings why can't they just put up plain clear glass boxes without the gross patterns?

It would be easier for all of us.

philvia · #10 Posted **May 2, 2009, 10:04 PM**

north face getting windows?

antinimby · #11 Posted **May 2, 2009, 11:46 PM**

What a total piece of shit.

NYguy · #12 Posted **May 3, 2009, 11:14 AM**

Not the best of new constructin in Brooklyn for sure. Here's a wider shot of the Downtown Manhattan/Brooklyn skyline...

Katy Silberger

New Skyline · #13 Posted **May 30, 2009, 11:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by antinimby

What a total piece of shit.

[SIZE="1"]ugly, but finally a taller tower for brooklyn

ht-freak · #14 Posted **Jun 3, 2009, 3:33 AM**

The east and west facades look like old subway car doors.

NYguy · #15 Posted **Jun 3, 2009, 11:54 AM**

Gehry's Atlantic Yards tower (the one now on hold) gets chopped in height, so the Williamsburgh Bank building can remain Brooklyn's tallest. And this just sails through. Oh well, what can you do...Brooklyn deserves better for a tallest, hopefully something will pull through. But it's a project that's getting built, and for that we should be greatful, I suppose.

CGII · #16 Posted **Jun 4, 2009, 6:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by New Skyline

[SIZE="1"]ugly, but finally a taller tower for brooklyn

I think its disgraceful that Brooklyn's new tallest tower looks like an air conditioner.

NYguy · #17 Posted **Jun 5, 2009, 6:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by CGII

I think its disgraceful that Brooklyn's new tallest tower looks like an air conditioner.

And some still complain about Gehry's designs for "miss Brooklyn".

philvia · #18 Posted **May 7, 2009, 7:37 PM**

excuse the durrrty window

NYguy · #19 Posted **May 7, 2009, 8:46 PM**

I love that Brooklyn is building and it has the density that I love.

NYguy · #20 Posted **May 21, 2009, 1:12 AM**

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories..._accident.html

Big accident at tallest building

By Mike McLaughlin
May 20, 2009

Construction of the borough’s tallest building, at 111 Lawrence St. in Downtown, was halted on Wednesday
after a worker fell several stories and was seriously injured. Here, city and union officials meet to discuss the accident.

A construction worker fell several stories early Wednesday morning in Downtown Brooklyn, bringing work to a halt on what will become Brooklyn’s tallest building.

The unidentified man survived the fall around 9 am and was rushed to a hospital, according to co-workers, who lingered outside the site at 111 Lawrence St.

“He fell a few stories and wasn’t killed,” said one hard hat who declined to give his name.

Another laborer told The Brooklyn Paper that the man did not fall to the street, but landed on one of the lower roofs or scaffolding.

A spokeswoman for Bovis Lend Lease, the construction company building the 514-feet tall residential tower, told The Brooklyn Paper that the man was conscious after the accident. His identity is being withheld until his family is notified.

The site is being developed by the Clarett Group and will eclipse the Williamsburgh Saving Bank building by two feet at the borough’s ceiling.

As one of the biggest builders in the city, Bovis has been involved in other recent high-rise construction accidents.

The private contractor was hired to demolish the Deutsche Bank building in lower Manhattan where two firefighters died in 2007 responding to a blaze in the empty bank tower.

The global construction company was also the project manager of Donald Trump’s controversial SoHo tower where a worker fell to his death in a cement accident in 2008.

An investigation is ongoing.