The Planning Board meets tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. On the agenda for the meeting is the Hudson Housing Authority's redevelopment plan. In advance of that meeting, materials to be presented at the meeting have been posted in the Planning Board Portal. Among those materials are elevation drawings--not renderings that show the buildings in the context of the surrounding neighborhood but two dimensional elevation drawings--of the buildings proposed for the Bliss Towers site and for the lot at corner of Second and Columbia streets, now a community garden.
This is the elevation drawing for the west facade of Building A1, which will be situated on the Bliss Towers site, behind the current building. (When the new buildings have been constructed and the current tenants relocated, the tower will be demolished.)
This is the elevation drawing for the street-facing facade of Building B, which will be located on State Street where the park and gazebo currently are.
In July, this drawing of the design being considered for the townhouses was shared.
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The design seems to have evolved since then. This is the elevation drawing for the street-facing facade of the townhouses.
Additional elevation drawings and floor plans for the townhouses can be found here.
When this project got started almost three years ago, Alexander Gorlin Architects was announced as the architectural firm that would be designing the buildings. Gorlin and his associates appeared at several meetings over the years. Curiously though, the plans and drawings submitted to the Planning Board today are not from Alexander Gorlin Architects but from a firm called Aufgang Architects, located in Suffern. One wonders exactly when and why Gorlin was replaced by Aufgang as the architects for the project.
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Throwback to when the high-brow and well intentioned Gorlin Architects (recent editor of the "book" Housing the Nation, known for making 18th century French urbanism references in their Q&A sessions with Bliss residents... proposed a _charrette_ for the entire Community™.
ReplyDeleteThe charrette was then requested multiple times... but caused confusion... and ultimately morphed into a "workshop".
The whole escapade could have been a New Yorker article.
At the time Gossips avoided, impressively so, a punny title involving the charade of the Bliss charrette.
Curious what Scott Turner ("HUD should be a trampoline not a hammock") will make of all this...
The townhouses aren't so bad, they should build more of those. The big buildings are grotesquely oversized. Why any sane person would voluntarily insert a gargantuan apartment complex into a grassy lot with trees in the middle of downtown Hudson is beyond me. This will have a very negative impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
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