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Metal exteriors in Brooklyn may be found on, top row, from left, a condo on Bond Street on the Gowanus-Boerum Hill border; 16th Street, Park Slope; two houses on Sixth Avenue in Park Slope; and Park Avenue in Clinton Hill. Bottom row: Seventh Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope; Eighth Avenue near Windsor Terrace; and Wyckoff Street in Boerum Hill. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times
Although aluminum siding is available that resembles wooden clapboards, the recently built or renovated homes with metal facades of Kings County, N.Y., tend to have a funky, artistic sensibility. The idea is not to mimic traditional construction, but to be proudly metallic.
— NYT
Kaya Laterman talks with architects, architectural designers, homeowners and neighbors on the cutting edge of a new Brooklyn trend.
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nice title!
so we are about 40 years ahead of brooklyn in los angeles.
See also this project, via Resituated
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