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I like this one. I like they saved some of the history and I'm ok with the sharp contrast. I think a clean break is more honest and looks better than some half ass historocity. At least, here.

Nice design with cheap materials. My takeaway from this is Alcubond doesn't have to be so bad if you use conservative colors and a single repeating scheme.

I feel like the most most high profile, money backed projects usually end up coming out the worst. Harvard had an opportunity here to create an attractive, walkable, neighborhood and campus, like their original one. But its just turning into a big office park ornamented with random gimmicks...

hey, great massing, great program, 400 units. I don't mind a plain street wall. I dont mind the loss of the "weird architecture." Wierd architecture only looks good if its designed and built well, and in Boston it usually isnt.

Well there have been numerous projects > mixed income re-ro's, over many years and they seem to do fine in terms of leasing. For example Columbia point to Harbour Point. This is just a new breed in that they are more dense instead of less dense, matching the old units one to one. But the...

I dont hate it. I feel like Kendal is shifting into an evil space invasion aesthetic with those new MIT buildings. And as a glass box at least its an evil space invasion glass box that matches the theme.

are mass timber buildings legal in ma?

I mean, LOVE the massing and program tho, nice to have options for people in the middle. And maybe itl end up freeing up some single families. The cladding . . . at least its creative and doesnt seem to be in a high profile location. I hate ugly cladding in Boston but this place seems pretty...

I feel like if we were giving yimby awards Revere would be second place for the inner towns after Everett

noooooooo . . . . .

Good point. You're right that its better than a bland glass box and I guess realistically for a large office/lab space that would be the alternative.

I feel like its an attractive modernist sculpture, and would look awesome . . . in like Miami or LA . . .

I think this project makes sense on a macro level: dense office space near transit, although the general office/ residential imbalance is another, maybe bigger macro issue, but anyway no one's talking about that and housing cost will continue upward. But I dont buy that a wall of office blocks...

Interested in how the funding will work

I just wish they would position the streets with an upward gradiant toward the back to facilitate building over the tracks eventually.

I like the massing, especially the undulating facade. I like the texture. It does seem to be done in a way that would be conducive to plastic panels . . . bleght . . . such a high profile location . . hope they can at least do terra cotta or even precast concrete panels in the front.

368 Pleasant Street Assuming this is a small residential project replacing a deteriorating building Full size here Its a cooperative living thing. 30 units. https://www.baystatecommons.org/

Looks great to me. I love the massing. Very urban but also pretty dense. I dont mind the generic facade. Thats what makes a neigborhood, is a pattern of similar buildings shaped by the style and economics of the times.

This is not a speculative long term plan. Its happening now. The area has OK to poor transit. But its the only place near Boston that is allowing large scale development and so far that seems to be enough. Everett is the short term future of urbanism in the region. Woburn is the longer term...

cant tell if your being sarcastic. I think the bright green is just a temporary construction wrapping. It has a product name on it.