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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...

No pointless cantilevers, no colorful alcubond, no mixed different facades. Ill take this over a poorly thought out attention grab any day.

I really dont like MIT or Harvard recent architecture, but at least MIT has a theme, although it seems to be evil alian invasion or something, but Harvards new stuff is just like a suburban office park menagerie of random gimmicks. MIT's feels more urban, although maybe they just had no choice...

Seems like a win. I would like to see more density, and that could include more step down and a street wall on Rutherford ave. It does seem slightly Le Corbusier. Which is fine but doesn't really fit historic Charlstown.

The cladding yes, the massing no. I think this is a win for density.

blegh . . . no housing. Just a massive commercial dump that will make the crisis much worse.

Looks great! Love the massing and materials on these renders.

For our hub and spokes transit system to work there needs to be a mass of employment in the center. This is also important for the city tax revenue and overall safety and liveliness feeling of downtown which is "face" of region. Unfortunately all of these are currently under significant threat...

Any new housing is great. Especially high density transit oriented. Its all really one pot.

Wow, not too impressed with any of these. I guess Quaker Lane and Gray Start at least appear kind of urban and focus on apartments. New England Development for me is the worst. Basically just a suburban office park at a super high value location. I feel like this site should be all high...

I like this pic and I feel like the sun belt is doing this right. People get to have their own home and a neighborhood feel while being pretty dense. I dont see whats the problem. EMT's or fireman would have to walk far in a 5-over-1 apartment building also so whats the difference? Anyway...

This is really really bad, at a really really high profile location.