A WATERFRONT subdivision approved for a slip of land that’s halfway underwater in the Country Club district of the Bronx is making innovative use of nautical architecture, but has some neighbors sending distress signals.
Four houses, all to be in the $1.6 million to $1.8 million range, are planned for the intersection of Schley and Clarence Avenues. They were designed by Tobias S. Guggenheimer with nautical elements, like porthole windows, and chimney stacks and roof decks much like a ship’s.
“I’m kind of inventing a name: nautical modernism,” Mr. Guggenheimer said. “We wanted very light and open structures.”
The three-bedroom houses, all lightweight steel frame and glass on the first floor, but clad in oiled cedar with decks on the second, will look out onto Eastchester Bay. Besides splendid views of Long Island Sound, roof decks will have wooden trellises and painted steel railings.
The houses face a well-off neighborhood where many small aluminum-sided homes have been rebuilt to double or even triple their size in recent years. A new large condominium complex and marina are next to the subdivision.
Some neighbors are not happy about losing their view of the water.
“We love the views of Long Island Sound and the boats and tugs we see going by in the water at the end of Clarence Avenue,” Matt Griffo, a nearby homeowner, told YourNabe.com. “Our view of the water at the end of the block is a hidden treasure.”
To address those worries, Mr. Guggenheimer added floor-to-ceiling glass entries. “We really didn’t want to create a kind of monolithic wall” between the neighborhood and the water, he said. Read more..
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