800 Huntington Ave | Mission Hill

Re: Mass Eye and Ear to 800 Huntington Ave

I just hope to god that their new building looks nothing like the current one.
 
Re: Mass Eye and Ear to 800 Huntington Ave

There's already a thread on this project somewhere.
 
Re: Mass Eye and Ear to 800 Huntington Ave

I think it's in the Mission/Parker Hill development thread.
 
This is now a 3 story building that is literally half parking garage. The parking garage is in the rear. There is a small street cafe on the ground floor.
 
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You better be careful distributing internal plans and renderings. If they haven't been presented at a public meeting, or to the press yet, don't post them. It isn't worth getting yourself fired over confidentiality breaches.
 
Seriously. If you don't have express permission to post this stuff to a public forum, don't do it.
 
This is the rendering from the BRA:

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Drove by this the other day, had no idea what they were building.
 
palindrome said:
Drove by this the other day, had no idea what they were building.
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It was originally supposed to be an enormous 6-story structure :)rolleyes:). That said, the FTF heights are very high because its a medical building. It was supposed to be pushing 100 feet.
 
Here's a more realistic rendering of what this one will look like. I have no idea why they would release that previously posted rendering with the ridiculous, extreme perspective.
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Oh yeah! Large blank street walls! Just what Huntington needs. Fucking ridiculous.
 
This city's planning department is stuck in the twentieth century. They should rename it the Department of View and Parking Spot Preservation, because this seems to be the scope of their demands to developers--anything else goes. It's pretty clear that they haven't got the slightest clue on what makes a good city, even when it's right under their noses

This is rubbish planning.

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Stunning, beautiful, marvelous! "A true architectural gem," says Pete Meade. "It's so edgy, the commuters who drive in from Weston will love it," quips Boston's mayor, Tom Menino. Kairos Shen goes on to explain, "the developers received multiple design submissions from the Northeast Vocational Technical High School and we told them we would ram this one design through our development process; it really spoke to us, and was the perfect representation of our imagination at the BRA."
 
BostonUrbEx said:
"the developers received multiple design submissions from the Northeast Vocational Technical High School"
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Don't insult the students at local vocational schools. They receive practical applied training in useful trade skills. A plumber, carpenter, electrician, or welder could never expect to have a successful career with a dull skill set. The local universities architecture and urban planning programs' graduates on the other hand.....
 
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the rendering alone is priceless.
We must been heading into another era of brutalist style architecture. Nothing good out of that era but Depression.
 
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