Recent content by CBCArch61

It would be required to be of "noncombustible" materials for the most part. If I had to guess they utilized a prefabricated metal framing system (such as the late Presceint company) in which the wall panels are loading bearing. This is in Nashville, but the metal framing was utilized above a...

Geodis Park is the largest, soccer-specific stadium (at least when it was completed) in the US. It also has some great technology integrated to ensure that its primary tenant (soccer) puts out a great product. The ownership group was also gifted a 99-year ground lease of 10 acres of land around...

100%! I use Seaport as a reference point here in Nashville, TN as we have a lot of open land really close to the core that could be master planned. FWIW, Fallon has been named the master developer of 30 acres of Metro Nashville owned land around the new multi-use arena (aka Nissan Stadium) so...

As a WIT grad, I would have loved to see more Institute focused buildings, but am also intrigued by this use on this site. So much lab space has been focused on Kendall that I wonder if having this type of space here, especially sandwiched between Green and Orange lines will do good or bad to...

This is presuming that the developers have the capital or even desire to add this additional square footage to the buildings. Money is Money. I will again go back to my earlier statement that the minor convenience of this on-street parking adds a lot of value to tenant leasing in these new...

I am all for minimal parking, but honestly, I think the configuration of Ellery Street is fine, GREAT for that matter. It is an a very equitable ROW where pedestrians, bikes and cars all have their own space. I commute daily to work via walk or bike in a VERY car dependent city (Nashville, TN...

Breaking up the building also creates more opportunity for leasable square footage. The buildings design would make for very deep ground floor slots which otherwise would create a lot of dead space. When we factor in the access to parking and loading docks, we would end up with a very dead...

My wife grew up in Plymouth and the Pinehills is its own world as Lrfox mentioned. In lieu of traditional sidewalks there are the nature trails, but that is really about it. Plymouth as a whole is suburb of Boston and a place I would never say is "urban" outside of the main street and waterfront...

Saying it is walkable to the town center is a little misleading. The Pinehills have their own "town center" and this development is sitting right in the middle of it The Pinehills Town Center is 8.5 to 10 miles from Historic Plymouth downtown. Seeing as the Plymouth Commuter Rail station...

If I had to guess, I would expect it to be left open. The locomotives of the commuter rail would make any finished product nearly impossible to maintain other than black soot, so essentially we would get the same thing but on a flat surface rather than utility looking. I don't think they should...

IMHO,, any expansion of the Convention Center should try to find a way to incorporate the Postal Service Operations. Whether we are looking at subterranean levels for sorting and office space above ground floor, not really sure. But i think that would serve the site well along with other uses on...

Thanks for sharing. This solution would be such a clean solution. In reality, this still shows remnants of the Bowker overpass at the Back Bay Fens intersection. Just let Boylston Street meander over to Mass Ave and let that be the primary eastern connection to Storrow. I don't think the...

I'm confused why folks are calling the white cladding "plastic" or "discount materials". The white cladding is Alpolic Cladding which is Aluminum Composite Metal (ACM). This is high quality products that are used extensively on new builds (and is most certainly NOT cheap). And at least there is...

Type IV is not necessarily Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). It is part of the Type IV construction type, but as king_vibe alluded to, Type IV is specific for heavy timber in general which is much larger members that are still combustible, but have much different burn characteristics then light...

From an urban perspective, I am liking the DREAM-Onyx proposal better. The Trinity Financial one is more straightforward, but the amount of surface space for cars cutting through the site, especially on the east end of the parcel, bugs me. Also the fact that Trinity has one more curb cut on to...