Czervik.Construction
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That guy in the middle is smoking a cigarette. 5 minutes after this photo, they were probably chugging martinis at Frank's Steakhouse.
Kendall Common ( née Volpe Redevelopment) | Kendall Sq | Cambridge
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bigpicture7
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And it looks like he's about to drop a pile of ash...maybe the model burned down and that's why that version didn't get built?
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That would have been interesting if that had been built.
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If I remember correctly the short builds were supposed to house 'contractors' while the tower had employees. Not sure if that was the DoT implementation or the original NASA plan. Fun fact - "one broadway" was built as a 'contractor building' to be close to the NASA site.
Maybe they wouldn't have had a problem if it was based in Cambridge instead of Houston.
It also would have been harder to stomach if they were tearing it down! It looks like it would have been pushing 500'.
Edward Durell Stone was not necessarily the most creative architect when it came to high rises... The "look" of the ERC seems to have largely been sized down to create the Dubois Library at UMass, and sized up for the Aon Center in Chicago.
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FWIW, this is a myth. NASA was supposed to use the Volpe site for a research facility, not for the functions that ended up at JSC. The Houston site was selected while Kennedy was still alive.
