Boston University - Warren Towers Renovation | 700 Commonwealth Avenue | Fenway

bdurden said:
I wonder if they should have gone with green instead of red akin to the Law Tower and then red up the Comm Ave facing windows.
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That reads as red to you? Brown with a tiny orange element is what I see. (Totally possible that I'm undiagnosed color-blind, given the pushback when I once characterized the Hancock as being "blue glass" and was told it was, in fact, (apparently) green).
 
chrisbrat said:
That reads as red to you? Brown with a tiny orange element is what I see. (Totally possible that I'm undiagnosed color-blind, given the pushback when I once characterized the Hancock as being "blue glass" and was told it was, in fact, (apparently) green).
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I am known for it as well…I saw red.
 
chrisbrat said:
That reads as red to you? Brown with a tiny orange element is what I see. (Totally possible that I'm undiagnosed color-blind, given the pushback when I once characterized the Hancock as being "blue glass" and was told it was, in fact, (apparently) green).
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It looks rust colored to me, but I'm pretty sure I have some moderate color blindness, too. Definitely doesn't come off as red in my opinion.
 
DZH22 said:
I understand needing to update the inside, but the proposed cladding is significantly worse than the existing version. It's a completely unnecessary visual downgrade.
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The renders achieved the impossible - - they make it look even MORE like a penitentiary.

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BU Wins Approval for Warren Towers Renovation​


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“As part of the approval of the 2024-2026 IMP for the Boston University (BU) Charles River Campus, BU will renovate its largest undergraduate dormitory, Warren Towers, renovate Mugar Library, and construct the new Pardee School of Global Studies. The Warren Towers project will repair the building’s envelope, reconfigure bathrooms, improve accessibility, modernize elevators and escalators, expand indoor bike parking, add new mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, and reconstruct the Commonwealth Avenue streetscape directly outside the building. As part of the construction of the new Pardee School, and in support of Boston’s Heat Resilience Plan, a parking lot will be converted into new green space.”

https://www.bldup.com/posts/bu-wins-approval-for-warren-towers-renovation
 
#bancars said:
Interesting story in part about the rooftop gardens on Warren Towers:

Rooftop gardens: A step in the right direction for urban environmentalism – The Daily Free Press

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"Rooftop gardens provide multiple benefits, including decreasing temperatures in urban spaces, managing stormwater runoff and providing a space to grow produce." I am very fully on-board with rooftop gardens (and all greenery/arbor "stuff"), but that garden is too small and inconsequential to do any of those things.
 
BU houses mostly grad students at Fenway. They’ll be taking those beds to make up for Warren towers.
 
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