This building is located right across the street from the historic Seaport district in Lower Manhattan. St. Margaret's House was completed in 1981 and designed by Gruzen & Partners. [1] It's named after the Episcopal Church religious order, the Sisters of St. Margaret. [2] The building's mission is to house low income seniors and disabled people. I feel a little bad criticizing a building with a mission like this, but it is in fact an eyesore, with it's light colored brick and weird looking window placement. I guess you can say that its other mission is to make the neighboring Southbridge Towers look good by comparison (the brown buildings surrounding it in the picture above). What do you think? Take the poll and/or leave a comment below...
Is St. Margaret's House ugly?
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Doji
3/28/2023 10:23:28 pm
I think this building is a beautiful monument to an era of new york city architecture that we're seeing bulldozed left and right. I'm not familiar with this website but seeing it deriding a building that exists to house and protect senior citizens of lower income ranges is definitely getting off on the wrong foot with me! I'm tired of glass and steel architecture, and fancy condos for rich people who live overseas and only hold apartments in luxury buildings as a commodity. This building and others like it are a comfort to me, a sign of the spirit of new york city, the old new york city, that is now being pushed to the corners of queens and brooklyn by greedy property developers and other various sorts with no architectural taste or cultural sensitivity.
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