Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
From Gowanus Lounge : ...even as the building has moved into the marketing phases, the bizarre cinder-blocked spaces at sidewalk level have remained...To us, nothing says luxury like painted over cinder-block block holes. Did you guys realize that the typical Queens Crap brought to us by fly-by-night developers is on par with a world renowned architect like Karl Fischer? Damn, maybe Borough...
The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
This is the relatively current state of the new Karl Fischer building at Bedford Avenue and S. 4 Street. It was stall for a long time, but was rising quickly since work resumed. (Err…at least until it was hit with a Stop Work Order a week ago.) Click here for the rendering.
The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
This is one of the latest works by Karl Fischer to come on line in Williamsburg, 525 Union Avenue and is one of the buildings to be completed in the booming Union Avenue corridor both west and east of the BQE. It’s not a condo but a “luxury rental” that started marketing itself a couple [...]
Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
We've had the feeling for a while that our New York world is being replaced by something...else. Here, for example, we've mapped the most important of architect/menace Karl Fischer's creations in and near Williamsburg. After combining adjacent developments, excluding conversions...
The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
We checked in on 95 Bedford Avenue over the weekened, the big empty lot that will be the future site of a very large building designed by Karl Fischer. The reason for our interest isn’t so much to plot the progress of excavation work as to see what kind of environmental remediation is being done [...]
The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The development of the former Robeling Oil Field, which brought us Warehouse 11 springing from its cleaned and capped hole, has begun anew. After some demolition work, land is already cleared for Phase II, on the Driggs Avenue side of the property, which will also be a Karl Fischer work (and we assume on that [...]
Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Like yesterday's Karl Fischer City map, these images—taken during a walk down 12 short blocks of Berry Street last week—demonstrate that Williamsburg is being reupholstered at a furious rate. —Restless
newyorkshitty.com (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Ever since I learned about Paul McCarthy’s roaming turd I have been thinking. Why do I avoid McCarren Park? Is it because Karl Fischer has surrounded it with his abjectecture? Possibly. Is it because I see more and more contendees for the Hipster Olympics there? Probably. Or is the lack of public art?!? These pups are [...]
