Comments on: Tribeca by Alison Brooks Architects

By: Rachael

Rachael — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:57:33 +0000

My concern regards this particular project does not necessarily echo those gone before, as a potential buyer in the stated area, with a property just behind this development my main concern is that the wonderful cathedral views are going to be obstructed by this. Why cant they break it up a bit and leave green plots in between to contrast and thus not inhibit the spectaular cathedral view??

By: chad

chad — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:15:49 +0000

This project reminds me of The Economist Building in Piccadilly, London by Alison and Peter Smithson.

By: ABA MARKETING DEPARTMENT

ABA MARKETING DEPARTMENT — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:14 +0000

Dear Dezeen

Could you very kindly please take the close up image of the stone cladding/ windows (fifth image down from top) from your website as that is not our image – something from U Splash team and not what we like or intended !!! thanks a lot
and sorry for our mistake!

ABA

By: Mattia

Mattia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:52:06 +0000

Maybe if they were faced in a different color/material I’d like them more? I definitely don’t think the forms do much to maximize the play of the church.

By: jp

jp — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:56:50 +0000

Nice formstudy. Materialisation (according to the renders?) seems way off.

By: ivan

ivan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:32:02 +0000

Look at the plan and you will see the wide and corners windows at the proper place for the interior. And these do not correspond to the facade. If it is built it will be different

By: MiM

MiM — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:19:56 +0000

correct comment on the renders (3dMax 0.1? or autocad 13?)

By: andresr

andresr — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:25:29 +0000

Crude, to say the least.
It doesnt even seem retro (which it seems to try to be), it simply looks old and tired. And whoever said the renders were good is obviously either an accountant or a desk-clerk that got lost and ended up on this site.

By: edward

edward — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:43:29 +0000

Well yes, it’s an object foremost, that argument was lost long ago, but the apartments access to the exterior looks to have been sacrificed to the Gothic
motif. Worse yet. .

By: leandro locsin

leandro locsin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:36:08 +0000

i think the randomness fenestration incisions created freedom of the skin, BUT it constricted the expression of the internal program of the body. the body is not free.

this is a perfect example of an architect obsessed with a single expression of an “OBJECT”

really sad.