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I like the fins, they provide much needed texture and rhythm without trying too hard.

I am all for enclosing Congress and while this cant do much for defining the Greenway the concave, or a well textured/stepped back option, would be a lot less hostile.

I like their design study better but one thing that the Central Plaza can teach us is that concave forms are MUCH better at defining space then convex forms. I don't get why you'd put a convex façade facing the park.

I think its a winner, something tells me the details will bring this together at the end of the day. An interesting background building that I suspect will age much more gracefully than a lot similar projects around town.

It is more brutalist than I would have thought. I don't mind it honestly.

If I had to guess it would be St Cloud which I believe is the manufacturer that NPS uses on their historic projects. https://stcloudwindow.com/historic-aluminum-windows-and-doors/

The glass is helping this pull together quite a bit.

^ I have heard they can be similar cost depending on the application. The brick is great, the façade/windows lacking any sense of depth is god awful.

I am pretty sure the community freaked out about getting ride of the open space... though this is clearly soo much better.

I think the Charlestown resistance will boil down to something like "Traffic, traffic, traffic!!! Parking, parking, parking!!!" They nearby brought out the pitchforks when Hood was exploring a concert venue.

The massing is really good I think and makes the transition from the Greenway into the North End feel much more intentional. This with a few modifications to the fenestration and ground floor activation this going to go a long way to repairing the rough edge left by the highway.

I think that's their attempt to show the build out of Hood Park, which has an approved master plan PDA and I think a few buildings have also received approval. The renderings are bad, the design is meh, those balconies are going to be VEed which honestly might help. I am all for the scale here...

^ Dorms are a RE investment product like any other and it is different than multifamily, a specialty of sorts. I dont blame schools for shopping this out. While their endowments might have RE investments, with a few notable exceptions, most schools are not geared to RE development and are risk...

I dont think quads are a major deciding factor for most students but MIT does have one of the most beautiful, if under utilized, Killian Court: Via: https://arts.mit.edu/mit-students-see-future-campus/

went for walk yesterday and was impressed with this one...

What is going on with the roofs on these townhouses? Why cant we do good cornices anymore.

Haha, I'd be impressed if they found any commercial use for it. It would be great though if they did as the neighborhood is light on services and amenities.

I think the massing models are telling. Not sure its a huge improvement. It feels more like the other new buildings along this stretch which I guess is good.

^ Looks like a painting

For the record I am currently [1] f*ck [2] marry [3] kill.