Chris Fogarty presents 21-story masonry design for 100-12 Queens Boulevard
Chris Fogarty of Fogarty Finger Architects presents a 21-story masonry building, explains use of Tudor red brick and street wall setbacks, and describes smaller retail bays, wider sidewalks, and street trees.
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My name is Chris Fogarty, Fogarty Finger Architects.
We're very excited to present our proposal today.
We're proposing a 21-story masonry building along the...
On the south side of Queens Boulevard.
We spent a lot of time listening and hearing from the community.
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And we also walked the neighborhood and used some of the beautiful presidents of Tudor language of red brick and masonry and the way they play with the street wall and the height and setback.
And we wondered how we could kind of incorporate that into our building.
So we used some of the new city of housing, city of yes housing, dormer rules and street back set rules to try and recreate that.
We also pushed the building as far north as we could away from our neighbors to the south.
And we're lucky because the sun is always casting shadows on Queens Boulevard and not on our neighbors.
So that was a luck, not a design thing.
But we're very excited to do that.
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And then finally, we spent a lot of time thinking about how it works at the street level, as Rachel mentioned.
We want to recreate that ability for retail of all shapes and sizes to come back, especially smaller retail.
So there's an individual smaller bays every 20 or 30 feet to allow different retail units to come.
Again, widening the sidewalk and increasing number of street trees and working with the local community as they go through their cycling lanes and everything else.
So thank you for letting me talk.