Carter's Review

This impressive, 12-story apartment building at 560 Carroll Street at Fourth Avenue in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn looks as though it might have been designed by a Cubist painter for its fractured façades and different planes of color.

The building, which is also known as 255 4^th Avenue, was designed by Armand Quadrini and developed by Mega Construction whose other projects in the city include 501 Broadway and 302 Spring Street in Manhattan and Atlantic Terrace in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

The building was completed in 2010 and has 44 condominium apartments.

Bottom Line

A bold and colorful architectural composition with artistic fading of its bright mid-section balconies.

Description

According to the architect’s website, “the building finds its form by echoing the contrasting grids extrapolated from the very streets that it fronts,” adding that “constructed from intersecting angles and volumes, with a façade of brick, granite and stucco in reds, blacks and grays, it more than acknowledges its location, it embraces and translates the architectural language of its surroundings, creating a visual pastiche of the entire neighborhood at one address.”

While it is not a “pastiche of the entire neighborhood at one address,” it is a very robust, energetic and dynamic architectural composition of considerable elan.

The building’s main design feature is a black brick corner frame that has four balconies in its middle section near its entrance and six angled balconies around its corner that overlap different façades and almost appear to fade away into the building.

The building is two blocks from a subway, one block away from shops on Fifth Avenue and five blocks away from Prospect Park.

The building has several differently sized windows and a gray, setback top.

Its entrance has a long marquee, a large, angled window section and sidewalk landscaping.

Some of the windows have six panes and discrete façade “lines” that align with the top of the shorter panes, a very subtle and nice touch.

Amenities

The building has a roof deck, a double-height lobby, video security, storage and bicycle storage.

Apartments

Apartments have wide plank American maple floors, coffered ceilings with recessed lighting, washer/dryer hook-ups and double-glazed Thomas windows with casement and awning projections.  Kitchens have silver ash rift oak and acid etched mirror cabinetry, absolute black granite countertops and Bosch appliances.  Bathrooms have Toto toilets and Zuma bathtubs.

Apartment 9B is a three-bedroom unit with 1,649 square feet and a 29-foot-long living/dining room with an open kitchen with an island and a 506-square-foot, 7-sided terrace and a separate 172-square-foot terrace.. 

Apartment 3D is a three-bedroom unit with 1,412 square feet with an entry foyer that leads to a 11-foot-wide dining room that opens onto a 15-foot-wide living room with a large open kitchen with an island.

Apartment 2D is a two-bedroom unit with 1,093 square feet with an entry foyer that leads past an open, pass-through kitchen to a 14-foot-wide living/dining room with a 269-square-foot, angled terrace.

Apartment 10B is a two-bedroom unit with 1,034 square feet and a long entry foyer that leads to the open, pass-through kitchen and the 19-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment 12B has 761 square feet and is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer next to an open, pass-through kitchen and an 18-foot-long living/dining room.