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The short answer is a lot. This has what it would guess to be a lot of additional scope cross a few trades which adds complexity and cost in addition to just material costs, not to mention coordination on the design team and contractor (I wonder what the shop drawings are like?). I'd WAG at...

^ I second that. Though I feel like they could have simplified a little bit, they are doing some really interesting things here that appears well thought out.

I would contest that. Low slung isn't the issue, its the management of the design team. Many, most, developers, are not designers/urbanists. They approach development from the perspective of creating an investment product. They undervalue that they are also creating a physical product that is...

Its unfortunate that labs are like the worst building typology for good urbanism but this is a whole new level, these are low-rise monoculture beasts! They feel like sterile federal government buildings in DC. Way too long, the elevations are a thing of nightmares. No where near enough façade...

A photo from a little walk this weekend. I suspect once the façade weathers a bit this will become a nice background building.

Yeah I like the front, It appears to have texture which is a welcome change. The sides and back are the scary parts.

HYM's is significantly better in terms of plan, at least to me. I want a full service grocery store, Market Basket could crush in this location.

the bar is so low. I truly dont understand how decorating a box decently is so challenging.

the black brick is killing me

^I am a little obsessed with the black and white building. Hello Hood Park, I see you.

I may have been drunk when I took this Saturday.

Looks like Nichiha which is actually more expensive than you'd think. IMO, taste and arch details matter more than material cost.

its a small gripe but why didn't they continue the corner detail on the first three floors to the forth floor... it makes an otherwise very well done addition look a bit like an afterthought.

I am all here for a replacement but I hope this isn't it. I think this site is so prime they either really have to push the boat out for some bold modern (but thoughtful) design or go a more tasteful traditionalist route. This looks like a badly massed10 Farnsworth got infected with cantilevers...

Don't forget these gems too. There is the Parting stone, where the road leaving Boston forked. Found here between Roxbury Crossing and Nubian Square and just a block away is the three mile stone. When doing a little research on my place in Forthill I found that the owner of the estate that...

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.