Artists for Humanity | 100 W. 2nd | South Boston

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I'm still really disappointed we aren't getting the beehive here.
 
Jouhou said:
I'm still really disappointed we aren't getting the beehive here.
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You break plane, you pay dearly. AFH cannot afford such things. Northeastern can.

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It's really disappointing.
 
The way that it's different/ dystopian, warehouse-ish kind of helps it stand out.

Once people realize what it is, it may gain acceptance for its lack of conformity.

Or maybe i'm being extra dumb -- it just sucks and people will hate it.

i'm optimistic for the first possibility. Crazy i know.
 
This would be waayy cooler in a denser street, but this location does not let this thing shine. Its an island like development and needs to do a lot more to stand out, and this just looks awkward in this context.
 
Should we inquire as to just how we arrived at this proverbial New England Aquarium of Art building?

New York is crying at it's lost, pathetic homeless child up the tracks.

Luckily most of our infill ain't garbage.....

Might have almost worked in Roxbury, JP or Rozzie or Northeastern next to that dog-shit radical-modernism thing.

Here; they need to invoke the 25th Amendment and depose that puke cladding.
 
It already looks 20 years old.
 
shmessy said:
This building exudes all the "humanity" of Pol Pot.
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Having grown up a Dead Kennedy's fan, I love me a Pol Pot reference...

The warehouse aesthetic and industrial cladding aren't for everyone, but the larger questions should be about whether or not the building meets its program (and the nonprofit owner's budget). AFH required a large flexible space to work on multiple projects, installation-scale work, and a venue to display them. I believe they also rent the space for events. To my knowledge, it's been a pretty successful building.

Arrowstreet also has this project on the boards, a few blocks from my home. The surrounding context is mixed, with multifamily homes, a housing development, and industrial buildings. I understand why Arrowstreet proposes corrugated stainless steel cladding; I also understand why many of my neighbors hate it with the heat of a thousand suns...
 
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