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The MTA presented the latest version of the design of a proposed subway ventilation plant at Mulry Square on the southeast corner of the intersection of Greenwich Avenue and Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village to a Community Board 2 Landmarks and Public Aesthetics Committee last night.
According to an article today at ny.curbed.com by Sara Polsky, the design "still calls for a faux-cade over a concrete box, but the facade is shorter this time around, and the windows have actual glass. Adds a certain realism, no? The MTA's latest plan also calls for the 9/11 commemorative Tiles for America to be embedded into the concrete around the building's base. The LPC has a purely advisory role in the design and will give the MTA its feedback next week."
The "Tiles for America" were small and very colorful painted plaques that were created to commemorate the heroism that occurred in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011 and they were mounted on a chainlink fence on the prominent vacant lot. Their incorporation into the proposed ventilation building around the base is very attractive and well conceived.
An article by Elizabeth Finkelstein, the director of preservation and research for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation at the organization's website today
said that the MTA "is proposing to embed the Tiles for America and some chain link fence into the eye-level concrete band around the base of the building" and that "timed lights will illuminate the tiles at night."
"The latest design still involves a 'floating' faux-historic facade over a concrete plant, but the height of the facade has been dropped to reveal the concrete plant behind it. The windows also now have glass, which was left out of prior designs," the article said.
"GVSHP has long been a critic of the MTA's design, and has urged them to hire an outside design firm and to consider options such as other locations or placing the plant underground, as they have in some cases. We have also urged the MTA to look towards other successful models of similar structures they have created in the past in our neighborhood, such as the MTA Substation at Greenwich Avenue and 13th Street," the article said, adding that "thus far, however, the MTA has stubbornly refused."
The Landmarks Preservation Commission will issue an advisory report on this newest design at a public hearing next Tuesday, June 7th.
According to an article today at ny.curbed.com by Sara Polsky, the design "still calls for a faux-cade over a concrete box, but the facade is shorter this time around, and the windows have actual glass. Adds a certain realism, no? The MTA's latest plan also calls for the 9/11 commemorative Tiles for America to be embedded into the concrete around the building's base. The LPC has a purely advisory role in the design and will give the MTA its feedback next week."
The "Tiles for America" were small and very colorful painted plaques that were created to commemorate the heroism that occurred in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011 and they were mounted on a chainlink fence on the prominent vacant lot. Their incorporation into the proposed ventilation building around the base is very attractive and well conceived.
An article by Elizabeth Finkelstein, the director of preservation and research for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation at the organization's website today
said that the MTA "is proposing to embed the Tiles for America and some chain link fence into the eye-level concrete band around the base of the building" and that "timed lights will illuminate the tiles at night."
"The latest design still involves a 'floating' faux-historic facade over a concrete plant, but the height of the facade has been dropped to reveal the concrete plant behind it. The windows also now have glass, which was left out of prior designs," the article said.
"GVSHP has long been a critic of the MTA's design, and has urged them to hire an outside design firm and to consider options such as other locations or placing the plant underground, as they have in some cases. We have also urged the MTA to look towards other successful models of similar structures they have created in the past in our neighborhood, such as the MTA Substation at Greenwich Avenue and 13th Street," the article said, adding that "thus far, however, the MTA has stubbornly refused."
The Landmarks Preservation Commission will issue an advisory report on this newest design at a public hearing next Tuesday, June 7th.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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