Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

[Equilibria]

The color choices for the Beacon Street hotel don’t make for an inviting hotel.

No, but they hide how cheap the cladding is. Black/silver is classy!

 

[theSil]

Early contender for an ArchBoston 2021 Worst Completed Project award.

 

[Equilibria]

Early contender for an ArchBoston 2021 Worst Completed Project award.

That would require it being completed in 2021.

 

[Bananarama]

Whatever happened to the red?

But yeah. What an ugly pile...

 

[stefal]

Oh my, I didn't even know it was cladded, and I've driven by this a few times the past few weeks.

 

[TallIsGood]

Oh my, I didn't even know it was cladded, and I've driven by this a few times the past few weeks.

I thought that was a black and white photo. Oops. Fail.

 

[curcuas]

What are the horizontal spikes on top?

 

[Equilibria]

What are the horizontal spikes on top?

Sad, lazy artifice?

 

[shmessy]

So, Melania is the architect?

 

[bigpicture7]

What are the horizontal spikes on top?

Can't you see how they play nicely off of the arrow-straight diagonally-protruding "vines" on the right side of the render?

 

[itchy]

So, Melania is the architect?

Think it was "Dr. Jill" putting her Ed.D. to great use

 

[Javier]

 

[RandomWalk]

Nice juxtaposition of fugly and well done. Ironically, the well done one is all affordable, where you would expect extreme VE.

 

[Arenacale]

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I would like to thank whoever designed this Robot Wars set piece for reminding me of the old Bad British Architecture blog from a decade ago that this would fit right in with. I needed the humor today.

 

[bigpicture7]

I would like to thank whoever designed this Robot Wars set piece for reminding me of the old Bad British Architecture blog from a decade ago that this would fit right in with. I needed the humor today.

Honestly, it looks like the warp core from Star Trek TNG won prom queen.

 

[RandomWalk]

I was expecting them to go with New England Brickmaster for the cladding. The grayscale look is atrocious.

 

[shmessy]

I would like to thank whoever designed this Robot Wars set piece for reminding me of the old Bad British Architecture blog from a decade ago that this would fit right in with. I needed the humor today.

Hey, if you're gonna fail, fail spectacularly!

 

[Javier]

 

[JumboBuc]

Damn those Frost Terrace apartments are turning out nice. That project really could be a model for how to artfully upzone large single family lots with older homes on them. This approach could work across West Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Belmont, Milton, etc.

(Fun fact: I lived in an apartment abutting that site when the project was proposed and went to the zoning review board hearing for the project. The room was packed beyond capacity and comments were probably 95%+ supportive, but the small group of 4 or 5 opponents included my landlord. They were of course "for affordable housing," but just not there.)

Also the Beacon Street Hotel looks just about as bad as the Frost Terrace apartments look good. Crazy that construction on the hotel started literally years before construction on the apartments.

 

[Javier]

Yes,FrostTer apartment building looks awesome, wish more buildings like that were built.