Hottest in town! Park Slope gets dose of cool modern architecture with 580 Carroll by Enrique Norten

Park Slope is to world-class modern architecture as New York City is to boring. The first two haven't gone together since the 1920s. They do now.

 

Just 17 units, set back from the street, slightly hidden behind a simple cedar fence and 3,500-square-foot garden, 580 Carroll by Enrique Norten brings a dimension that most neighborhoods beg for: a signature site by a world-class architect.

 

Those buildings, though, don't always deliver. Sometimes, as in the case of Richard Meier's On Prospect Park, apartments sit empty with dark and dreary units in the back of the building with windows looking out onto a concrete courtyard.