Facade-Work Delay Restricts Condo Q -- I reside in a condominium that has had a sidewalk shed for the last 19 months in anticipation of the building doing facade work.
Besides upgrading the 16,000 square feet of storefront spaces and doing facade work, Westbrook is renovating the lobby and overhauling the elevators and mechanical and electrical services, said Frank Marino, a spokesman for Westbrook.
(Dodge did the facade mural on the old Helen Hayes Theater in Times Square, demolished for the Portman Hotel and covered in a Streetscapes column on Oct. 9, 2011).
So what did the original facade look like?
"Rudolph did hundreds of facade studies for this modest building," said Donald Luckenbill, an architect who worked with him on it.
MoMA officials let it be known that the folk museum's faceted bronze-alloy facade didn't fit in with the Modern's glass aesthetic and that its floors didn't line up with MoMA's, as if that constituted a design obstacle too formidable to overcome.
In its original announcement last month, MoMA officials said the former Folk Art building needed to be razed because its opaque facade did not fit in with the glass aesthetic of the rest of the museum, and because the floors would not align.
And because she has embargoed her own image, put it off-limits until such moment as she wants to reveal it (if such a moment exists), we babble incessantly about her facade — did she have her eyes done, and if so, was it Botox or a full-on blepharoplasty?
The next year he did a shopfront facade on Mulberry Street, and in 1977 the classical colonnade on the blank side wall of a Consolidated Edison building on Peck Slip in Lower Manhattan (complete with an illusionistic view through the brick wall to the Brooklyn Bridge on the other side).
It is a tactic he was forced to use, retrospectively, for his own house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, to persuade the judiciary that his new projecting stone facade did not contravene the Building Act, as was claimed by the officious district surveyor.
