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Mayor Wu, City of Boston Break Ground on New EMS Station Along South Boston Waterfront

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New EMS station breaks ground in Seaport as neighborhood grows

The new ambulance station on the South Boston Waterfront will be located on Dry Dock Avenue, next to Pier 10.
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The EMS station looks new/unique but as something that looks like a proper EMS station, the fire station is the most stereotypical seaport building of all time. If you had to design a fire station and make it look as seaport as it possibly can youd get this.

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I would have rather they made it closer to the EMS station or the new fire station in dorchester just to give some different colors/massing/materials to the neighborhood instead of all blue glass all the time everywhere. It also makes its presence known what it is so anybody that passes it will know what it is and where it is without having to search for it later if they need to go. Architecture can give out information into the world with the style it chooses like “here is the neighborhood fire station right here” vs “oh look another anonymous blue glass building”. It also doesnt always need to be the same exact brick fire station every time either, the EMS building looks different than any other EMS building but still looks like an EMS building and gives some variety to the built environment.

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stick n move said:
The EMS station looks new/unique but as something that looks like a proper EMS station, the fire station is the most stereotypical seaport building of all time. If you had to design a fire station and make it look as seaport as it possibly can youd get this.

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I would have rather they made it closer to the EMS station or the new fire station in dorchester just to give some different colors/massing/materials to the neighborhood instead of all blue glass all the time everywhere. It also makes its presence known what it is so anybody that passes it will know what it is and where it is without having to search for it later if they need to go. Architecture can give out information into the world with the style it chooses like “here is the neighborhood fire station right here” vs “oh look another anonymous blue glass building”. It also doesnt always need to be the same exact brick fire station every time either, the EMS building looks different than any other EMS building but still looks like an EMS building and gives some variety to the built environment.

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To be fair, it's worth keeping in mind that's not all for BFD - it's designed as a lab/office building first and foremost. BFD would be basically becoming a condo owner/leaser, as it'd only control some 10k square feet for its station and it's bays within the larger structure. Think more "public safety agency as street frontage retail tenant", and thus more along the lines of Somervilles Assembly fire station than anything else.

Also, given that it was proposed as office/lab in 2022, the thing is pretty far from breaking ground - the project has been surviving on 6 month tentative designation extensions of its ground lease for a while now.
 
Stlin said:
To be fair, it's worth keeping in mind that's not all for BFD - it's designed as a lab/office building first and foremost. BFD would be basically becoming a condo owner/leaser, as it'd only control some 10k square feet for its station and it's bays within the larger structure. Think more "public safety agency as street frontage retail tenant", and thus more along the lines of Somervilles Assembly fire station than anything else.

Also, given that it was proposed as office/lab in 2022, the thing is pretty far from breaking ground - the project has been surviving on 6 month tentative designation extensions of its ground lease for a while now.
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There's another example of this on Purchase St downtown along the Greenway:

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stick n move said:
I would have rather they made it closer to the EMS station or the new fire station in dorchester just to give some different colors/massing/materials to the neighborhood instead of all blue glass all the time everywhere. It also makes its presence known what it is so anybody that passes it will know what it is and where it is without having to search for it later if they need to go. Architecture can give out information into the world with the style it chooses like “here is the neighborhood fire station right here” vs “oh look another anonymous blue glass building”. It also doesnt always need to be the same exact brick fire station every time either, the EMS building looks different than any other EMS building but still looks like an EMS building and gives some variety to the built environment.
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That's the other thing... they def don't want people going to the firehouse asking for help.
 
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