Jeremiah Burke High School - Dorchester

[czsz]

But the materials this is made of suggest pure tentativeness. It even looks temporary.

 

[bdurden]

^How so? I look over this time and again and for the life of me cannot see tentative, temporary...fragile, vulnerable, perhaps.

 

[Beton Brut]

There is something to be said for tasteful work, whether it falls within the range of current trends or not.

+1

But the materials this is made of suggest pure tentativeness. It even looks temporary.

The metal cladding probably speaks to the addition's light-industrial context. I'd have preferred a masonry cladding, like the slat tiles on the Honan-Allston Library.

Still, a nice piece of work.

 

[Pierce]

+1
I'd have preferred a masonry cladding, like the slat tiles on the Honan-Allston Library.

Here's as good a place as any to show some shots of a similar stone-cladding with marble (long story about a temporary impasse between benefactor and architect about materiality, technology and what is appropriate for a design school building--and a rare case of the resolution not being a compromise but a improvement on both ideas). This is at one of my alma maters, the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State:

zooming in

 

[Beton Brut]

A shame this solution wasn't around for Aalto's iceberg on the shores of T??l? Bay.

 

[Boston02124]

grove hall

this was next door to the high school

some new costruction

 

[czsz]

Wow, a lot of great building stock there.

Too bad the Mecca Mall looks like a stucco strip mall shipped in from Scottsdale.

 

[Shepard]

The Mecca Mall says "this area is being invested in" even if it does look out of place. It works as a contrast between old and new because this area has really nice old bones, from the photos at least (I need to get out on foot and really explore this area more).

 

[Boston02124]

there is a lot of newer and new construction going on more so towards Roxbury deffinitly an interesting area of Boston

 

[belmont square]

(I need to get out on foot and really explore this area more).

When you go, be sure to check out Harris Park (Harold Street about 10 blocks nw), Elm Hill Park (5 blocks north on the east side of Warren) and the "W" streets on the west side of Warren. The residential built environment here is at least on par with its gentrified cousins north of the river, and oftentimes superior.

 

[Pierce]

When you go, be sure to check out Harris Park (Harold Street about 10 blocks nw), Elm Hill Park (5 blocks north on the east side of Warren) and the "W" streets on the west side of Warren. The residential built environment here is at least on par with its gentrified cousins north of the river, and oftentimes superior.

Right on, Horatio Harris Park is this city's best unknown open space. It is an absolute little gem, as is the housing stock that surrounds it.

 

[blade_bltz]

I believe the construction pic in 02124's photos is taken of this:

The Kasanof Bakery mixed-use project on Blue Hill Ave.

 

[Boston02124]

thats nice! This is a huge site,there was alot of projects going on ,but I was going to work and did'nt have much time to take more pixs! I live in Dorchester center(Codman Sq.) about 4 miles away and I consider Codman Sq. the worst downtown area in Boston despite being surrounded by 4-800.000+ dollar homes(Melville pk/Ashmont Hill)Time to start a Dorchester thread!