Recent content by Hydrobus

Awesome building, great density and massing. I like that its somewhat contextual and echos the mandarin oriental nearby. Nice street wall too.

Good looking building. Nice to see real materials and contextual massing. Older design was better but this is still good.

Yes. Its soooo bad. This is why people hate new development. There should be less regulation on massing and more regulation of aesthetics.

I like Boston and the grittyness and history and charm. And I think a lot of people do and thats part of why they film movies here. (Also the film credit.) And people come here and fall in love with the city. If you want a cleaner look with all mid-rise modern buildings there are many cities...

Looking at the renders I dont really understand why they have to demolish that whole history. The big residential tower is going to mostly be on a parking lot in back anyway (and a section of what looks like the back room of the Burren? I guess its OK if they demo that. ) And theres a street...

Since its going to be a mid rise base with one narrow high rise section anyway, why cant they leave the two existing historic structures on both ends and just demolish the middle one and make that the tower, maybe with a bit of cantilever. Doesnt even have to be a full facadectomy.

Love that they are building housing. Like that they made an effort to contextualize the design, at least using brick colored panels, some inset windows, and looks like some some real brick. The massing feels awkward, but I suppose its a constrained site and they did the best they could.

Wow, so ugly, also why no housing tower on top of podium? Seems like that would be a location there would be little community opposition. Its a huge site. Could probably fit two dorm towers with 1600 beds.

Restoring my faith in humanity a little bit.

Yeah missed opportunity, like that other big project on the Mystic in Charlstown they are raising the street level. And I think at the Columbia point redo also. Seems like it might not be too expensive if they just made the ground level or two a parking podium which they need anyway. Even if...

I wanted to hate it but I actually like it design wise. Its like a well done tower in the park theme and the landscaping is really top notch, like NY high line level. Now in terms of the program, its way too office heavy vs residential and the residential should be much denser, same complaint...

Looks awesome. I mean personally I would ditch the community paths between buildings that will be shady and windy and if anything allocate all the green space to the riverfront which is what people will actually use. I'm not convinced the design relates much to historic Charlestown, but it...

I agree, feels gimicky but then they didnt fully commit to the gimmick and added other random elements. I feel like modernism in a historic neighborhood is only good if its really good. That said, its not bad and its nice many units get an outdoor space.

dramatic increase in beds. Thats some good news

I work in that area sometimes and walk down Middlesex. Its not too bad. Although 1400 parking spaces in this projects and thousands more in the other projects may make it worse. Im not sure how this project ties together with the rest of Somerville as they claim. Although I do think its hard...