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Not sure why this hasnt gotten more play on here, the high rise section of this.... is ugly as hell. It looks like a dark turd from across the harbor and up close isnt much better. I can see what they were trying for but the execution was awful and it seems like the budget wasnt there for it either
 
I've thought that too, but a dozen more Eddies on the waterfront there would still be a win in my book.
 
odurandina said:
Globe piece on the midrise tower. "it towers over 200'." (the horror).

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...east-boston/FVU6A5M1iP3kB4PEha8chK/story.html
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Odurandoa -- Why do you care -- its Eastie

Outside of the airport area and the Madonna Statue atop Orient Heights its nearly the only thing in all of the rest of Eastie to top out over 100 feet above sea level

BUT -- just like the Seaport Hotel and Office Towers were pioneers to the development of the Seaport / Innovation / GE-Digital-Industrial District -- this towering tower is a HaaahBingaaaah of things to come -- much higher density development

for example -- in Saturday's Herald
Developer plans 19 new condos on Eastie’s Orient Heights
Donna Goodison Saturday, October 08, 2016

A $6.2 million, low-rise condominium development is in the works for the Orient Heights section of East Boston....

Plans for The Residences at 16 Boardman Street include a new three-story building with 19 condos, including two affordable units, near the MBTA’s Orient Heights Blue Line station, according to documents submitted to the Boston Planning & Development Agency for a small project review.

Developer Patrick M. Mahoney of 16 Boardman LLC is proposing a tiered, three-story building on an approximately 12,784-square-foot lot that is now partly occupied by a two-family home. The condos would range in size from 600 square feet for a one-bedroom to 1,370 square feet for the building’s single three-bedroom, two-bathroom unit.

The building’s design by Charlestown-based Neshamkin French Architects has an exterior deck and a meeting room, while the lower level includes a 27-car garage.
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http://www.bostonherald.com/busines...lans_19_new_condos_on_eastie_s_orient_heights

Now some may seize on the 1.5 parking spaces per unit as 'Bad Urbanism" others will no doubt notice that it;s only 3 stories within easy walking distance of Orient Heights T -- till others might not like the "retro-Miami Pink"
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However, I call attention to the fact that on 1/4 acre as many as 50 people could be resident where there is currently a two family house with 5 bed rooms -- that's big-time densification
 
jl326 said:
Is this new graffiti or has this been there for a while now?
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I wish these East Boston developments could do more to restore the tidal zone... the Clippership Wharf development is doing that a little bit, but it would be nice to have the shore shallowed up with some gentle grading, some rocks brought in, places for marsh grass constructed. Ditto for Pier 4 and Liberty Wharf in South Boston - tiny breaks in the old seawalls, nothing more. I am sure taking this to any full blown extent would be expensive, but a little bit more in this direction I don't think would add too much cost - even better, could be done with some public-private money in concert with these developments. Instead of ten mini-piers and mini-gravel beaches, the BRA et al. could have devised a master plan for the entire coastline in this part of East Boston.
 
That's suppose to look like four row houses? What's with the forced perspective in the doors of the brick sections? Are they angled slightly sideways?
 
Jahvon09 said:
Your opinion only.
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Post WWII public housing like the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini–Green were constructed with better materials and higher aesthetic standards than the nonsense routinely rubber-stamped by the BPDA.

I'm not anti-development. I'm anti-trashitecture, and this proposal is an object-lesson in that cynical discipline.

There's a meeting to discuss this proposal on 11/01. If you think my assessment is an aberration, you might want to stop by and hear what my neighbors have to say.
 
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odurandina said:
great photos DZH!
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Thanks, if you like these be sure to check out the ones I just posted for Lovejoy Wharf, The Merano, and Avalon North Station.

I really enjoy the way this building seems to expand the city from many angles. It's very visible across the harbor, from the North End, Charleston, etc. Makes more of an impact due to its location that a building of its size otherwise would in Boston.
 
I absolutely would live here. Id eat santarpios all the time use the reliable blue line and have some of the best views in the city. I love Eastie even though its kind of the land of the forgotten. I love how even though its so close to the city its kind of isolated and you dont get the pass through traffic that other neighborhoods do-not regarding the highways. It would be nice if it was better connected for your bikers/pedestrians, but theres no easy solution to that one.


On another note this was executed very well.
 
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