The design presented at that time was not enthusiastically embraced by the HPC. The proposed building met the compatibility requirements for massing, size, and scale, but it was the architectural features--specifically the corten steel--that caused the HBC to use the word jarring most often in discussing the design.
Yesterday, the owners of 211 Warren Street--Passive Aggressive Housing--were back with a new design which they said "pays respect to both Warren Street and what was there before."
In the presentation of the design, it was explained that a bay window had been added, inspired by the bay window (actually an oriel) next door at 209 Warren Street. Comparing it with the design presented in April, it seems the element now being called a bay window was there before, except now the corten metal has been changed to painted wood panels, and the fenestration, which before had been two windows replicating the size and placement of the windows in the original building, is now three narrower windows, imitating the proportions of the windows in the oriel next door. Also, the roof line in the back of the building has changed to eliminate what had been a kind of attic level balcony.
HPC member Miranda Barry touched on the issue of compatibility by noting that in Miami new buildings were not allowed to imitate the city's historic Art Deco buildings. They could reference the historic buildings but not imitate them. Kate Johns, the HPC's architect member, commented that has been the policy for years, but it is now being questioned.
There was not a great deal of discussion among the members of the commission before it was decided that the application was complete. It was also decided, on the recommendation of audience member Christabel Gough, that there would be a public hearing on the proposed new construction. That public hearing has been scheduled to take place on Friday, September 27, at 9:30 a.m., at City Hall.
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If I was visiting Hudson for the first time and came upon that structure, I would assume that it's where the locals go for an MRI or colonoscopy.
ReplyDelete... just can't stop chuckling
DeleteIt's an eyesore and has no business whatsoever on the streets of Hudson. That they would even entertain such a notion makes me burn. And if I were queen, the owners would be ridden out of town on a rail for having the gall (and utterly bad taste) to suggest it. If they want a new house, they can move somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteThe odd thing is that some people want to plunk modernist cubes down in a setting where there is a preponderance of traditional architecture. I don't get it. Why buy that space for that purpose?
ReplyDeleteCompared to the lengthy post above documenting all the beautiful housing, some of which still exists and some of which has been lost, this proposed building replacement really an eyesore.
ReplyDelete"PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE housing" ... design!
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