Public comments have also been highly negative about a proposed new commercial and residential developments on West Putnam Avenue - amid concerns about suburban sprawl and over-development. “Where’s the architecture police when you need them?” asked yet another critic. “Cold and horrible design” added another commenter. Because it sure doesn’t look like anything in the quaint and quiet Cos Cob all around it.”
“We can’t decide if it looks more like a mausoleum, a small industrial prison, or the compound Bin Laden was using in Pakistan. “This monstrosity just went up on the street I grew up on in Cos Cob right across from my childhood home,” wrote on observer about the new addition to the neighborhood. Local design critics have been up in arms in particular about a new home built in Cos Cob, part of a building boom that remade the visual landscape of the residential corridor along Valley Road in the past few years. “Beautiful neighborhoods are being torn apart with inappropriately scaled new homes - large homes with poor details, proportions and scale,” she said. Kaehler said she has been dismayed by much of the new residential construction in Greenwich. “Details like this do not make or break one’s world, but they can be the ‘soft touches’ that enrich our lives in small, but important ways,” the Greenwich architect noted. Kaehler has been critical of the shortcomings of the massive new retaining wall at Old Greenwich train station - “the Berlin Wall,” as it has been referred to locally, she said.
From a large new home in Cos Cob drawing neighborhood comments, to criticism about new projects proposed on West Putnam Avenue, not to mention the massive new retaining wall at the Old Greenwich train station, concerns are mounting that Greenwich is beginning to look like any other suburb in the metropolitan area.Īs Greenwich architect Laura Kaehler noted, design can have an important role in quality of daily life, and the public has a right to be concerned over the built environment.
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