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The crane is coming down today.

Glad they are starting with lots of housing in that filibustered plot of land. See you in 2035.

It wasn't a lab building before, and they are completely retrofitting it to be a lab building. It was 5 floors of offices before, with ground level features like childcare and a gym.

They started putting down the slurry walls (cement + rebar) a few weeks ago. They probably have 50-60 linear feet complete, in different sections, dug mainly across the middle of the site near the front of the teal-colored crane. This marks the south edge of the future 290 Binney St according to...

Re: Pics above...I don't see this angle everyday as I live north of the city, but the skyline really lucked out by not having that chunky side wing extend the length of the building. Probably the only good to come from COVID.

That marble work with the grain intact is stunning. I've got to check that out in person!

I'll say. I can barely work there is so much activity on this job site. So much drilling, etc.

There's a lot of large brick buildings within a block of it, so some green terra cotta will go far here. For a lab, I like it. Three sides of retail and street activation is even better!

Wait, that actually functions like an old airport flight board? I walk by there most days and never bothered to look that carefully. Very cool.

It's all down now. Vid is from earlier in the week. This is only one half of this skinny superblock but the other half already had the concrete trucked away.

75% █████████▢▢▢▢ Almost there. It's crazy how fast this has come down after watching it every day. What's more amazing is that the side on Binney St where they started (pictures from 3 weeks ago) already has most of the concrete and rebar trucked away. They are doing the same clean up to the...

They took the machines from the back and moved them to the front for now. I'd say there is still a month left.

They started chewing it up yesterday (Jan 12). This may go quicker than we think. There is nothing really under it except the infill for the old Broad Canal that extended this far.

Site work has been going on for several months, but today crews started taking down the garage. Here's to Cambridge's new tallest (454')🥂

Saw this nugget on the Boston subreddit (thread): "I'm building the facade. A few interesting things, birds are flying into the mirrored panels and dying, and the glare off them is so burning hot it burns through styrofoam type insulation and waterproofing membrane. I don't think hanging out on...

Caught a bit of the evening light looking down Mass Ave in Central Square, Cambridge. It lines up above one of the MIT domes that stands at the end of the street.

One thing that I don't really like about this project, and haven't seen mentioned, is that it kind of wrecks the sight-line in Cambridge as you come down Mass Ave from Harvard, through Central Square, and towards MIT. One of the MIT domes is dead center at the end of the road and now there is a...

Stack of books incoming...

The building sides look impressive now that the facade is going up. I walk by every day and the vertical lines definitely make it look taller than it is (similar to the new Proto residential building a block away). But man, the wide sides look reallllly chunky with a split facade. The front...

The red line is just under the street there. Maybe that's why they beefed it up? Honestly every time I walk by those facadectomies it feels like they are about to implode.