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  1. cca

    88 Seaport Blvd | Seaport Square Parcel D | Seaport

    This is architecture with a capital A. If that excites you ... thank feel free to be excited. If it bothers you ... well ... it's going to be quite a ride.
  2. cca

    Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

    Pretty sure that is the mineral fiber insulation you are seeing.
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    Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

    Its not being sensible ... its literally the life of a designer. That's all.
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    Pier 4 Condo Building (Former Anthony's site) | Seaport

    That is the price of being trendy ... real wood has real maintenance issues and in very short order as posted above. As a designer ... I would always steer my clients away from exterior wood (in the vertical surfaces). Soffits look good for much longer.
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    Children's Hospital Building | Longwood

    Cantilevering is a design tool like any design tool. When they are meeting agreed upon criteria both of the things you have stated can be powerful and meaningful. When they are used as a trope, they stink. For a more straightforward answer ... I would say no. Why? Because offsetting windows...
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    Fenway Center (One Kenmore) | Turnpike Parcel 7, Beacon Street | Fenway

    Designers are struggling to find ways to bring texture to a building. The resources available are very thin. When the cost of the facade is so low designers have to take what they have and use whatever techniques they have. When the client says "make it unique" but says you get $15/sf for the...
  7. cca

    Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

    Glass production lines have been slow for a very long time.
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    Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

    This is where the exterior lift was attached to the building. They need to wait for a separate order of glass to arrive .. .and then they need to rig a swing stage to finish off the panels that the "worked around" Thats all. All is good.
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    Volpe Transportation Center Development | Kendall Sq | Cambridge

    This is hot. Just saying. cca
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    The St Regis Residences (former Whiskey Priest site) | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport

    Stop being so reasonable mdd .... I am sure its a private bathroom for the project executive or something.
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    Harvard Square Infill and Small Developments

    But not what it could have been ... even in their own proposals the first iteration was much more exciting AND much more contextual at the same time. Why is that not a win win (I guess it did not meet the proforma)
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    Omni Hotel @ BCEC | Summer St | Seaport

    I will venture a guess that the concrete is specifically the wing that is just rooms and the steel portion has rooms and large span areas like lobbies and ballrooms and conference spaces and such?
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    Mixed-Use Building | 21-35 W 2nd st | South Boston

    They have a superpower ... they know how to work the permitting angle better than anyone. It brings value to the job regardless of design chops.
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    MXD II (Google Kendall) | 325 Main St. | Kendall Square | Cambridge

    If you like that ... read Unbuilding by David Macaulay
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    Assembly Square Infill and Small Developments | Somerville

    My opinion, Assembly is good now, but will be stuck in the time capsule of itself. The lack of authenticity argument holds up for me not for what it is today (an authentic version of a shopping mall), but of how it can transform over time. I am not saying it can't or won't but I will go out on...
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    Omni Hotel @ BCEC | Summer St | Seaport

    ohhhh ...that cantilever beam is so girthy. Swoon. cca
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    Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

    Why is everyone so 0 -100 here? Just chill. Everyone is ok ... we all have axes and we all grind them. Lets do this. - KMP is right. That picture does nothing to support his/her issue of promoting street level activity. (Although it is a picture of a skyline of a city that continues to...
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    Encore Boston Harbor Casino | 1 Broadway | Everett

    yup. its still there folks. cca
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    Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

    They look a tad lonely I would have to say ... and I am not even a "built it higher" guy. cca

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