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Re: 286-290 Tremont st | Chinatown I can't believe this style of building is still being proposed on the cusp of 2019

I really hope they end-up extendin the facade design across the right 1/4 of the front side. Right now, that segment just looks dated and stale.

I really hope this bathroom is... supervised... in some fashion.

Placeholder Building circa 2002

It makes me irrationally happy to see this kind of texture / depth in a façade. Two decades of flat curtainwalls with flat glass windows has nearly bored me to death. What's more, there's no colossal order nonsense and the windows actually align. I can't believe this got approved.

Agreed! I'll never understand how garbage-looking, flat Alucobond ever became acceptable in high-end construction. The Jaguar dealership proposal really underscored how insane it is to wrap a building in that kind of material and call it "luxury".

Education First - Design Last

Balconies used to be poured as part of concrete floor slabs. You see this in a lot of '70s buildings. This turned out to be bad news. When a prefab concrete balcony exposed to the elements for decades finally decays, it's a pricey, but manageable issue. Someone just has to make you one and go...

That façade is so painfully half-assed. It looks incoherent and unfinished.

Imagine this, but cheaper (It's Boston after all).

When does the innovation get installed?

lmao, I thought that was temp bracing for the facade.

Re: Parcel JK | NorthPoint | Cambridge Enough with the colossal order windows already. We've squeezed everything we could out of that trend.

Re: Six West Broadway Hotel |South Boston Personally, I find a reason to celebrate a "boring" building with symmetry, cohesion and texture after countless designs that tried very hard to insert randomness, while drawing from the same increasingly-dry creative well.

I respect the fact that we both have differing, subjective opinions on this. For me, the problems with Alucobond are: Approach - Using composite metal paneling with depth (10 Farnsworth St.) can produce impressive results. Using it as flat panels has all of the aesthetic charm of vinyl...

Re: Six West Broadway Hotel |South Boston Sorry folks, I totally dig this. It's clean, symmetrical and doesn't fall victim to the compulsion to add random protrusions or dissonant materials.

Another candidate for the Why Can't The Whole Building Be Like That? awards.

Oh hell yes. This is wonderful to read. tl;dr: "We're not using asymmetrical, colossal order windows wrapped in flat, silver or grey Alucobond."

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out when Emerson knew the building was a lost cause. They put a lot of money into it fairly recently. Within the last decade they built an entire structure within the structure to fill-in light wells (not visible from the street) and built-out new study rooms...

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue Ideological differences aside, this word salad is not doing you any favors. Please tell me you posted it ironically.