MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

IMG_2355.JPG


Up close and from Cambridge, I wasn't the biggest fan of the building's design, but I didn't think it was too horrible.
However, I really dislike how the building appears from Back Bay. Essentially, just a white cube towering over smaller Beacon Hill buildings.

Slightly wider windows with a bit less paneling and a touch higher or narrower to adjust proportions would have gone a long way in my opinion.

Additionally, with the bright white paneling. Choosing a beige color would blend in better with the other MGH buildings and Beacon Hill.
 
urbanmansprawler said:
From the sidewalk/approach I get for-profit prison vibes from this sorry beast, and set within the broader skyline it shouts 'bland neo-brutalist box'. Finally, it looms over Beacon Hill like a giant middle finger, but that small plus really can't negate the many minuses.
Click to expand...
There's no need for that spirit. Suggesting Beacon Hill needs to be "punished" (I am guessing it's merely because you don't like that there happen to be wealthy people in the world (?) or a small contingent of same who in no way represent everyone who've opposed a bike lane (?), or whatever other reason)—is wrong. That anti-elite-masquerading-as-populism is exactly the spirit James Michael Curley used to make many decisions that were poor for the city. And many others, including the authoritarian egomaniac running this country at the moment.

In any case, the building was always going to be a disappointment and it's sad that Cambridge Street is going to basically have a long, bland institutional streetwall. That being said, it does remain to be seen what the final experience on the street is like. The lots it's being built on were parking lots or very small clinics, and this project will very likely significantly increase the foot traffic on the sidewalks of Blossom, N Anderson, and N Grove Streets, and human life does tend to make an eyesore less noticeable.
 
FK4 said:
There's no need for that spirit. Suggesting Beacon Hill needs to be "punished" (I am guessing it's merely because you don't like that there happen to be wealthy people in the world (?) or a small contingent of same who in no way represent everyone who've opposed a bike lane (?), or whatever other reason)—is wrong. That anti-elite-masquerading-as-populism is exactly the spirit James Michael Curley used to make many decisions that were poor for the city. And many others, including the authoritarian egomaniac running this country at the moment.

In any case, the building was always going to be a disappointment and it's sad that Cambridge Street is going to basically have a long, bland institutional streetwall. That being said, it does remain to be seen what the final experience on the street is like. The lots it's being built on were parking lots or very small clinics, and this project will very likely significantly increase the foot traffic on the sidewalks of Blossom, N Anderson, and N Grove Streets, and human life does tend to make an eyesore less noticeable.
Click to expand...
We don't know each other, dude, I'll say whatever I'd like in whatever spirit I'd like, and you'd best stay in your lane.
 
urbanmansprawler said:
We don't know each other, dude, I'll say whatever I'd like in whatever spirit I'd like, and you'd best stay in your lane.
Click to expand...

FK4 in no sense intimated you couldn’t voice your opinion. Don’t be so afraid of your ideas being challenged and debated in an open setting such as this. The give and take is enlightening.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top