OuterB on Queens Real Estate

So if your heading over to the sales office of the View, you can check out the first model of East Coast 3, Rockrose next waterfront rental project. Well actually East Coast 3 & 4 will be developed together with East Coast 3 being the first of the two to be complete, with number 3 following soon after. It will feature somewhere around 42-45 stories and somewhere between 400-500 rental units with a 110,000sqft K-8 Public School at the base. Something LIC can really use.

Stay Tuned for some more exciting LIC news coming up this week…

On CityRoom, James Sanders, an architect, author and filmmaker based in New York City, is taking questions from readers about architecture in NY. “Johdus Fanfoozal” (interesting name) asks, “What buildings would you consider among the most architecturally significant in each of the outer boroughs?”

Sanders doesn’t cite Forest Hills Gardens, the Matthew Model Flats, Jackson Heights Gardens, or Sunnyside Gardens, all developments that are touted as important architectural elements of Queens. He cited the TWA Terminal at JFK as the most architecturally significant:

Queens: The TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy Airport. Designed by the great modern architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962, this soaring poured-concrete structure is as much a work of sculpture as architecture – a great swooping bird of a building that perfectly captures the (now-vanished) enchantment with air travel characteristic of the early 1960s. After much wrangling with preservation groups and the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the structure is currently being renovated by Jet Blue as part of their JFK expansion program.

To tell you the truth, I never really put great architecture and airports together, but after looking at a number of pictures of this terminal, it is pretty cool looking. Do you agree? What do you think is the most architecturally significant element in Queens?

• Answers About New York Architecture, On Screen and Off [City Room]

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