RandomWalk
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They should just stick a banner up on the replacement building with “How do like them labs?”
This is so much better than the rewarmed 585 Kendall. It is a solid background building, which is good in this location.I shared it before, but idk how they first changed the building to look like this.
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Which is nothing spectacular, but is also a pretty acceptable background building, and then changed it again into the final superturd configuration. One congress is pretty clearly the star of the show here, why throw up a jumbled disaster right at its door step at the last minute?
Background and filler buildings get a lot of hate on architectural forums, but theres definitely a lot of skill required to create something that seamlessly blends into the color pallette and architectural fabric of a city, disappearing in plain view to allow the better buildings to stand out. Its why Dubai’s sheikh zayed road supertalls look like a bag of ass, with every tower screaming look at me, and why nyc’s skyline which arguably has 1000 times more “shitty” filler buildings than Dubai is arguably the best skyline on earth.
Those hundreds of crappy 1950’s brick and concrete towers are anonymous, the correct color/shape etc, and dont try too hard to stand out. The net effect is they create a general white noise that is soft and disarming that allows appropriately crafted spikes in the noise to shine through. This building takes all of that and throws it in the trash. Building this thing directly against the greenway is like placing a permanent trash bin directly in the best sight line of the empire state building, blocking it from view. Its ridiculous. I agree that if they cant get it right the city should take it and build a park.
Except it's almost certainly not. As AB's wonderfully detailed & comprehensive thread on the epic(ally convoluted, controversial, and complicated) redevelopment of the Burnham Bldg/Filene's basement site chronicles:How long was Vornado allowed to leave the hole in DTC where One Franklin is now? This is heading for the same type of thing.
This is correctMy understanding is they can’t get a certificate of occupancy for the State Street tower until the garage demo is completed.
The only people who need to adjust their xanax levels are the resource managers at HYM (less).Some of ya'll need to take a xanax or something. Chill, it'll get done. It's a complicated project.
I guess you don't have to hear people constantly bitch about the Congress Street detours, the longer walk to North Station, the constant horn-honking, or you basically don't have to look at it.I'd rather have a hole here for the next 500 years than the lab building that's supposed to replace it.
I don't care about the panels. I care about the form, a brutal blob wall blocking off a newly created iconic view. Wide/fat labs do not belong in DOWNTOWN Boston. They can finish taking down the garage, open the street back up, and go back to the drawing board on the lab parcel.We can always change the exterior panels on the lab replacement.
The demo of the garage in earnest (not tied directly to a specific building site) started in late 2021, barely a year ago at this point. At one point earlier this year, the demolition was proceeding at such a pace, a portion of the garage let go prematurely and killed a worker and crippled the core of the transit system for a period of time. You believe they aren't going fast enough?The only people who need to adjust their xanax levels are the resource managers at HYM (less).
This demo was started in 2019. Entering year 4. I'm saying it's dragging out much longer than it needs to.
Add more bodies from worksites that aren't shutting down a major boulevard in the heart of my city!
If there are any jackhammer jockeys at Suffolk Downs or anywhere else on the HYM payroll, get their asses down here tout suite!
Not true, it started closer to beginning of 2021 with enabling work for the demoThe demo of the garage in earnest (not tied directly to a specific building site) started in late 2021, barely a year ago at this point. At one point earlier this year, the demolition was proceeding at such a pace, a portion of the garage let go prematurely and killed a worker and crippled the core of the transit system for a period of time. You believe they aren't going fast enough?
Oh, I remember.The demo of the garage in earnest (not tied directly to a specific building site) started in late 2021, barely a year ago at this point. At one point earlier this year, the demolition was proceeding at such a pace, a portion of the garage let go prematurely and killed a worker and crippled the core of the transit system for a period of time. You believe they aren't going fast enough?