BU Development Thread

bdurden said:
If anything, it speaks to the way in which the university views how modern-day students interact and what attracts potential students to a university. BU is spending $32 million on the build out of the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground at 910 Comm Ave, which they anticipate will be a new hub of activity on campus. It is a much more impressive retrofit of space than the new bookstore.
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The new Thurman Center is at 808 Comm.
 
Goldman School addition has gone vertical:
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In case you didn't know the dental building was built in 2 phases back in the 1970's, A few years after the building opened they added 3 floors. Hence the awkward fenestration.
 
^^^ Very interesting thanks.

Anyone know what is going on with the Newton Pavilion next door? It has been fenced off and vacant for several months.

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It's going to be repurposed as the new location for the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital.
 
BU Dental School used irregular fenestration decades before it became fashionable. That was due to adding a vertical addition 3 years after the original was built.
 
Really impressive reconstruction work on Myles Standish - well done!
Will have to reserve judgment though on Goldman...not sure that’s going to turn out so well. It’s a bit confusing trying to understand what style they were going with on this one.
 
BU has been doing renovations / masonry restoration to its College of Fine Arts building, a building that has a notoriously blank/austere, long streetwall.

Walked by earlier, and it looks as though that's being blasted back open to its (original?) state. It was a travesty those large archways appeared to have been cinder-blocked over/plastered for all these years:

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^nice, thanks bdurden. Is it correct to assume that the gallery space that seems to be being removed in the renovations at 808 Comm. across the street will be replaced by gallery space here?

Overall, looks great! When combined with the sidewalk improvements in the area, this is quite the upgrade in walking experience along this stretch.
 
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