Good point. This reminds me of 450 Lexington Ave in New York, which did something similar in the 80s with a similarly nice (though less prominent) old Beaux Arts building.
Mixed feelings on this. I am sure making the building useable for academic purposes makes it tough to keep the small windows appropriate for a storage facility. At the same time, the glass carbuncles are an unfortunate erasure of a fantastic historic structure. Tough call.
Too bad. The buildings look quite nice - wonderful, well-built old masonry structures that meet the street well. They just needed some infill to fill the gaps that post-war "progress" left behind.
Nice! Wolfgang's is my favorite NYC steakhouse (IMO better than the much-revered Peter Luger).
As they've expanded quality - at their NYC restaurants, at least ... no idea how the ex-NYC ones are - has gotten a little variable. But still great.
Yes. Funny how in previous eras the solution was that parcels were simply smaller, leading to tremendous diversity in the built environment.
Given the price of land today and the associated near-requirement that any construction involve an ecosystem of sophisticated / expensive legal...
Looks like it's replacing a fairly large facility holding 4-5 seafood processing and distribution companies?
Seafood processing and distribution businesses feel like things that belong on the waterfront. And not immediately clear where they might move to, with every parking lot owner and his...
This is where most of the WiredNY people migrated to (at least originally):
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/tags.php?tag=new+york
It's less intelligent (i.e., less likely to focus on design quality vs. skyscraper height) than WiredNY was in its heyday. It's less intelligent than ArchBoston too...
WTF is that? So you get penalized for being white? Makes me want to become a contractor to sue the living daylights out of the state for their reverse Jim Crow.
Everything about the architecture and design of the Boston Fed is atrocious and hideous.
That includes the plaza, which would be lovely in an office park in Waltham.
It also includes the building itself, which looks like something Mussolini would've built had he lived 25 years later than he...