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Re: BU - Albany St
The building in question. While this would not be a huge loss, this is a great example of a place for adaptive reuse. This is a perfect space for offices and lofts with a tower of housing atop it.
The building in question. While this would not be a huge loss, this is a great example of a place for adaptive reuse. This is a perfect space for offices and lofts with a tower of housing atop it.
Re: BU - Albany St
This is the first proposal for this site:
http://www.stullandlee.com/architecture/housing/af.htm
Fallon no longer has pics on their web site, the buildings were more conservative brick buildings:
http://www.falloncompany.com/site/index9.php?guid=projects/albany-fellows
This is the first proposal for this site:
http://www.stullandlee.com/architecture/housing/af.htm
Fallon no longer has pics on their web site, the buildings were more conservative brick buildings:
http://www.falloncompany.com/site/index9.php?guid=projects/albany-fellows
Latest news
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/6686
No one ever said that medical school was easy ? particularly in one of the more expensive rental markets in the country. Many students at the School of Medicine face financial challenges when they begin their studies at BU, often paying more than $2,000 a month to live near the Medical Campus or commuting from farther away in order to save money. But now, the school is taking steps to offer on-campus housing for students, with the purchase in February of an 86,000-square-foot parcel of land that will be used for ?safe, convenient, and affordable apartment housing for students,? according to Karen Antman, MED dean and provost of the Medical Campus.
?The addition of on-campus housing has been something that the medical school has talked about for decades,? says President Robert A. Brown. ?With the support of our friends and alumni, the concept of student housing at BUSM will become a reality.?
The 817 Albany St. property, located just a few blocks from the medical school facilities, will be developed into a 9-story building with 104 units that will accommodate upwards of 208 first-year medical students. Rent for students in the new facility is targeted at approximately $850 a month.
?We want to group our first-year medical students in the new facility so that the adjustment into medical school is easier,? says Antman. ?Students who live and study together develop an esprit de corps that facilitates team building. Below-market rents would also decrease student debt. Some of our students commute to school from as far away as Rhode Island ? on-campus housing would eliminate the need, and expense, of a car.?
?The time that students have traditionally spent commuting to and from the school can now be spent focusing on their studies, on patient care, on research interests, and on building a stronger sense of community,? adds Robert Witzburg, the associate dean for admissions. ?Having a residential campus will be a major improvement in the quality of life and the quality of education we offer, while simultaneously reducing the annual cost of attendance.?
The school also has long-term plans to build a second 9-story facility, this one containing 196 units, on the property, which would house other MED students, as well as those from the Goldman School of Dental Medicine and the School of Public Health. Future plans include administrative offices, laboratory space, and child-care facilities.
The total cost of the new student housing facility will be approximately $40 million; Boston University will provide half the construction costs. MED has already raised $1 million of the $20 million it needs. An aggressive fundraising program, administrators say, would have the building available for student occupancy as early as August 2010.
?We are grateful to the donors who have already stepped forward to pledge their support for this facility, which will transform student life at the School of Medicine,? Antman says. ?Our students will ultimately benefit from the educational and financial advantages that safe, convenient, and affordable housing will provide.?
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/6686
No one ever said that medical school was easy ? particularly in one of the more expensive rental markets in the country. Many students at the School of Medicine face financial challenges when they begin their studies at BU, often paying more than $2,000 a month to live near the Medical Campus or commuting from farther away in order to save money. But now, the school is taking steps to offer on-campus housing for students, with the purchase in February of an 86,000-square-foot parcel of land that will be used for ?safe, convenient, and affordable apartment housing for students,? according to Karen Antman, MED dean and provost of the Medical Campus.
?The addition of on-campus housing has been something that the medical school has talked about for decades,? says President Robert A. Brown. ?With the support of our friends and alumni, the concept of student housing at BUSM will become a reality.?
The 817 Albany St. property, located just a few blocks from the medical school facilities, will be developed into a 9-story building with 104 units that will accommodate upwards of 208 first-year medical students. Rent for students in the new facility is targeted at approximately $850 a month.
?We want to group our first-year medical students in the new facility so that the adjustment into medical school is easier,? says Antman. ?Students who live and study together develop an esprit de corps that facilitates team building. Below-market rents would also decrease student debt. Some of our students commute to school from as far away as Rhode Island ? on-campus housing would eliminate the need, and expense, of a car.?
?The time that students have traditionally spent commuting to and from the school can now be spent focusing on their studies, on patient care, on research interests, and on building a stronger sense of community,? adds Robert Witzburg, the associate dean for admissions. ?Having a residential campus will be a major improvement in the quality of life and the quality of education we offer, while simultaneously reducing the annual cost of attendance.?
The school also has long-term plans to build a second 9-story facility, this one containing 196 units, on the property, which would house other MED students, as well as those from the Goldman School of Dental Medicine and the School of Public Health. Future plans include administrative offices, laboratory space, and child-care facilities.
The total cost of the new student housing facility will be approximately $40 million; Boston University will provide half the construction costs. MED has already raised $1 million of the $20 million it needs. An aggressive fundraising program, administrators say, would have the building available for student occupancy as early as August 2010.
?We are grateful to the donors who have already stepped forward to pledge their support for this facility, which will transform student life at the School of Medicine,? Antman says. ?Our students will ultimately benefit from the educational and financial advantages that safe, convenient, and affordable housing will provide.?
New Building
Also saw this. New ambulatory building and major additions to the hospital a few blocks away.
http://www.internal.bmc.org/newsletters/MedCenterNews/pdf/2008_01.pdf
New Ambulatory Building project underway
Work will soon begin on two major BMC clinical services building projects on
Albany Street.
The first is a two-story-plus-basement addition
to the Menino Pavilion that will allow expansion of
BMC?s Emergency Department (ED). The second
project is a state-of-the-art ambulatory center
at 725 Albany St. that will be a replacement for
the Doctors Office Building and other clinical
space. The building at 91 East Concord St. will be
demolished to accommodate the New Ambulatory
Building (NAB).
In addition to improving and expanding ambulatory
space, the new building projects will allow further
consolidation of services and accommodate growth
in volume.
?Consolidating clinical practices on campus
ensures one standard of care practice and
facilitates more efficient use of physician and
staff time,? said Gregory Grillone, MD, BMC?s
acting chief officer, and associate professor of
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at BUSM.
According to Grillone, physicians will be involved
in all space-programming discussions and in the
design of the clinical floors in the new building.
The Menino addition, scheduled for completion in
fall 2009, will increase the space by 21,966 square
feet. The basement level includes mechanical
and storage space. The Menino ED will expand by
11 beds (a 44 percent increase in adult medical/
surgical ED beds), and the Radiology Department
will gain a second magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) suite. The second floor will be shell space for
future expansion of the Menino operating rooms
and post-anesthesia care unit.
The NAB will have over 245,000 square feet of
space and be nine stories high. The basement
level will house radiology and phlebotomy
services, IMPAC (Internal Medicine Preoperative
Assessment Clinic), and support space. The first
floor will house patient reception, financial services
and retail space, while the second floor is designed
for a caf? for patients and staff. Floors three
through eight will hold ambulatory clinical services
and the ninth floor will contain a new hospital
clinical laboratory. The building is expected to be
completed in December 2010.
Vehicular access and drop-off to the building will
be via a covered two-story entrance off Albany
Street. Parking will be available across the street at
the 710 Albany St. garage.
Also saw this. New ambulatory building and major additions to the hospital a few blocks away.
http://www.internal.bmc.org/newsletters/MedCenterNews/pdf/2008_01.pdf
New Ambulatory Building project underway
Work will soon begin on two major BMC clinical services building projects on
Albany Street.
The first is a two-story-plus-basement addition
to the Menino Pavilion that will allow expansion of
BMC?s Emergency Department (ED). The second
project is a state-of-the-art ambulatory center
at 725 Albany St. that will be a replacement for
the Doctors Office Building and other clinical
space. The building at 91 East Concord St. will be
demolished to accommodate the New Ambulatory
Building (NAB).
In addition to improving and expanding ambulatory
space, the new building projects will allow further
consolidation of services and accommodate growth
in volume.
?Consolidating clinical practices on campus
ensures one standard of care practice and
facilitates more efficient use of physician and
staff time,? said Gregory Grillone, MD, BMC?s
acting chief officer, and associate professor of
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at BUSM.
According to Grillone, physicians will be involved
in all space-programming discussions and in the
design of the clinical floors in the new building.
The Menino addition, scheduled for completion in
fall 2009, will increase the space by 21,966 square
feet. The basement level includes mechanical
and storage space. The Menino ED will expand by
11 beds (a 44 percent increase in adult medical/
surgical ED beds), and the Radiology Department
will gain a second magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) suite. The second floor will be shell space for
future expansion of the Menino operating rooms
and post-anesthesia care unit.
The NAB will have over 245,000 square feet of
space and be nine stories high. The basement
level will house radiology and phlebotomy
services, IMPAC (Internal Medicine Preoperative
Assessment Clinic), and support space. The first
floor will house patient reception, financial services
and retail space, while the second floor is designed
for a caf? for patients and staff. Floors three
through eight will hold ambulatory clinical services
and the ninth floor will contain a new hospital
clinical laboratory. The building is expected to be
completed in December 2010.
Vehicular access and drop-off to the building will
be via a covered two-story entrance off Albany
Street. Parking will be available across the street at
the 710 Albany St. garage.
Re: BU - Albany St
Looks like they copied and pasted this uninspired, by-the-numbers precast palace from the Seaport:
I get so happy when mediocre architecture is allowed to thrive in the city.
Looks like they copied and pasted this uninspired, by-the-numbers precast palace from the Seaport:
I get so happy when mediocre architecture is allowed to thrive in the city.
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There are places in cities for generic, boring, non offensive buildings like this and Albany St is one of them.
There are places in cities for generic, boring, non offensive buildings like this and Albany St is one of them.
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Re: BU - Albany St
are they gonna finish coloring that rendering? or maybe the brick at the top of the building is going to be painted white!
are they gonna finish coloring that rendering? or maybe the brick at the top of the building is going to be painted white!
Re: BU - Albany St
Here is an opportunity for people on this forum to put their "money where their mouth is". The earlier proposals were substantially bigger and BU should be encouraged to think bigger. For one thing it would be a shame to lose this property from the tax rolls. Perhaps a project like the Trilogy(Harvard took one of the buildings) would work here. BU will have to present to the neighborhood group I belong to and I intend to push for a bigger project.
Here is an opportunity for people on this forum to put their "money where their mouth is". The earlier proposals were substantially bigger and BU should be encouraged to think bigger. For one thing it would be a shame to lose this property from the tax rolls. Perhaps a project like the Trilogy(Harvard took one of the buildings) would work here. BU will have to present to the neighborhood group I belong to and I intend to push for a bigger project.
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Re: BU - Albany St
A short two years later and there's some progress:
The Boston Redevelopment Authority has given approval to a proposal to create more than 100 apartments in the South End neighborhood of Boston.
From the press release:
Boston University Medical Center Receives Approval for Additional Graduate Student Housing
I believe Fallon Towle & Associates is (still) the developer. Stull and Lee, Inc. is the architect.
A short two years later and there's some progress:
The Boston Redevelopment Authority has given approval to a proposal to create more than 100 apartments in the South End neighborhood of Boston.
From the press release:
Boston University Medical Center Receives Approval for Additional Graduate Student Housing
I believe Fallon Towle & Associates is (still) the developer. Stull and Lee, Inc. is the architect.
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It's all the green space the locals will exact in return for leave to build this shadow-casting soaring tower of doom.
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I pity any students who'll end up in that ass end of the city.
Well played.