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TOCCI Tapped as Construction Manager for 1270 Commonwealth Avenue Multifamily Project in Boston - Boston Real Estate Times

Boston— TOCCI has been selected by Hines and Benenson Capital Partners to lead construction on a new multifamily development at 1270 Commonwealth Avenue in Allston, MA, marking another step forward […]

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Damn they changed it?

Looking on bostonplans this is what shows up in the last presentation from 2023.

Compared to the original

Either of the bottom two would have been fine imo, the top one is just bleh.

 

[Suffolk 83]

I like the top better it looks less like a cheap traditional 5+1

 

[HenryAlan]

I don't see that as a downgrade. Really just some slight tweaks to the cladding, or is there something more fundamentally different that I'm not noticing?

 

[FPJ]

I don't see that as a downgrade. Really just some slight tweaks to the cladding, or is there something more fundamentally different that I'm not noticing?

Agreed. Continuing the metal-accented articulation to the corner strikes me as a much more harmonious design. Shifting the entrance away from the corner also seems like a positive.

 

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Agreed. Continuing the metal-accented articulation to the corner strikes me as a much more harmonious design. Shifting the entrance away from the corner also seems like a positive.

Yea I wasnt talking about the massing changes, I think that looks good, I just think the color of the latest rendering is a bit bland. The older colors look a bit cheap in the rendering but I feel in real life it would have turned out fine. If thats real copper on the roof though in the latest black version that will probably look pretty good and especially once it turns green.