Given that the existing structure on the site is a brick house erected in 1900, a case could be made for the new building to be in a matching material. Yet, the new apartments borrow nothing of the earlier house s gracefulness, scale, or history. The brick facade is nothing but a convenient cliché, cost cutting masquerading as quality construction.
Would anyone want to live on this heavily trafficked entrance to the East Side, especially behind a wall of two-by-fours just a few feet from South Angel Street? The ground floor is given over to parking for six cars. Is this the best use of space in a city with a housing shortage?