BU Development Thread

new crane for the above went up today will post a pic later if not already posted!
 
Either BU has some strange art, or I think I can see something rising near the base of the crane:
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BU does have strange art, but yes you are seeing the new Law School expansion adjacent to the Tower.
 
Note: The Hillel House is becoming a BU Admissions mecca. They are taking over the entire building and going all out. Think NEU's visitor center x 10.
 
Does anyone like the law tower? Was it liked when it was new? Its just... gross. It looks like some industrial complex was turned on its side and there should be smog belching out of it or something.
 
davem said:
Does anyone like the law tower? Was it liked when it was new? Its just... gross. It looks like some industrial complex was turned on its side and there should be smog belching out of it or something.
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The only people that liked it were the people who were wanking off to it* at the GSD. It's another of Sert's "masterpieces." The operable colored panels are a great feature, first pioneered by Corbu, and became a signature of Sert. Windows are for looking, panels are for ventilation. It's nice to see this expressed on the facade. A modern example of Sert's legacy is International Village that employs the same ventilation concept. The windows are very old though and single-paned so the building is ridiculously energy inefficient. They are currently undergoing a renovation as well.

The major issues with the building are within the vertical distribution of the programmatic layout. Several large classrooms holding 100+ are located at the top of the tower and this results in the building's elevator system reaching crush capacity all day long. This is made worse by the fact that the elevator controllers are Westinghouse Selectomatics that are notorious for poor traffic control (see: Marriott Copley Place during a convention). The BU law tower renovation and addition is fixing this by putting the larger classrooms on the lower floors and making the upper floors administrative.

*Excuse my french, but it's the most accurate way to describe it.
 
610 Comm isn't a surprise to me, but I'm not sure where I first heard of it.

I would like them to put ground floor retail in this spot. I work around the corner and there's a real shortage of places to go. Not sure if they'll care.
 
Heh, anyone notice how old the base map in the IMP is? It still shows the A line, Audubon circle and the south side of the boker as rotaries, and no changes in Fenway. The Landmark Center is labeled as Sears and Roebuck, and the old freight line is still intact there too. Also the D is labeled as the "MTA and Albany Railroad" and the Worcester Line as the NY Central.
 
davem said:
Heh, anyone notice how old the base map in the IMP is? It still shows the A line, Audubon circle and the south side of the boker as rotaries, and no changes in Fenway. The Landmark Center is labeled as Sears and Roebuck, and the old freight line is still intact there too. Also the D is labeled as the "MTA and Albany Railroad" and the Worcester Line as the NY Central.
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Yes! What perplexes me about it so much is that it looks like fresh CAD work... The City of Boston has plenty of updated CAD models on the BRA site.
 
datadyne007 said:
Yes! What perplexes me about it so much is that it looks like fresh CAD work...
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At first I thought whoever made it just threw in a couple historical easter eggs with the rotaries and A line, but the labels are really weird. All I can imagine is that they shopped it out to someone with no familiarity with Boston, and gave them an ancient map to use. The NYC went under in what, 68?
 
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