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| Jean Prouvé’s Congo Maison sits on a Queens lot — for now. |
By JAMES J. PARZIALE
The peculiar structure rests on stilts, nestled underneath the Queens side of the Queensboro Bridge with the beautifully painted Manhattan backdrop and East River serving as a backyard. It’s obvious the setting is not this particular building’s home, as it is surrounded by some unwelcoming terrain.
Studying the peculiarities of this futuristic creation, you come to find out that not only was it not built on this continent, it’s from a different era altogether.
The Maison Tropicale, constructed in 1951 by Frenchman Jean Prouvè, rests in a lot owned by Silvercup Studies in Long Island City for all to see. What onlookers might not know is that this architectural oddity has a much more exotic home than Queens – having been built in the Brazzaville, the capital of Belgian Congo.
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