Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

[kennedy]

Awesome pictures, where was that last one taken?

 

[Boston02124]

thanks just walked accross the bridge instead of rideing the T .the last pix is of the new building on main st Kendall sq I could'nt find the thread so I put it here,unsure what these were?they lined the sidewalk

 

[kz1000ps]

That's the MIT Sloan School of Business... I've been putting my pics of it in the MIT expansion plans thread.

 

[Boston02124]

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Those aren't ugly so much as fat, boring, safe, and poorly designed.

 

[ablarc]

^ Tell us what you think of them.


(Btw, I agree.)

 

[bostonbred]

^ s what you think of them.)

oK. this lookinglike kittyLITTERS' box after Purina bean SUPPER

 

[bdurden]

What are those little outhouse structures in the last picture?

 

[sidewalks]

I think the new business school building is a nice addition. I like the forms, the colors and the materials.

 

[stellarfun]

What are those little outhouse structures in the last picture?

May be entrances/exits to the new underground garage. IIRC, there are several levels of parking under the whole site.

 

[eljusticiero67]

Those aren't ugly so much as fat, boring, safe, and poorly designed.

agreed.
it had potential, like i like the front of the koch institute-- but by in large it looks like the retarded midget cousin of a supermodel.

 

[eljusticiero67]

much like most new developments in boston.

 

[Ron Newman]

May be entrances/exits to the new underground garage. IIRC, there are several levels of parking under the whole site.

Perhaps, but there are four such structures, side by side, quite close to each other. I don't know why they would need so many kiosk entrances to the parking level in such close proximity.

 

[Boston02124]

I'll get out of the car next time and take better pixs,as I'm also curious what these are!

 

[Boston02124]

harvard mass ave drive by

 

[ablarc]

Stern meets Thompson: iconic upper-middlin' architects of different eras.



Obviously both believe in big windows.

 

[czsz]

Yep, what an ICONIC vista. The auteur theory of architecture = Fail.

Every day the new HLS building looks more like some Mussolini fantasy from EUR mated with the IRS building in DC. I guess it's appropriate that the dean who commissioned the monstrosity was an admin law specialist who dreamed of some powerful desk in Washington (she's no longer dean because she got it).

 

[GW2500]

Here is a link to an article from Boston Globes my town section for Cambridge. It's about the redvelopment of Lechemere Sq and converting the existing bus depot into a market and a few other things. If you click on the underlined "a neighborhood plan" line in the first paragraph of the article it will bring up a pdf.

http://www.cambridgeday.com/2010/03...ions-lechmere-with-hotel-plaza-public-market/

 

[JohnAKeith]

I don't understand that website. All the content is written by just one person?? Is he writing it all or is much of it taken from other sites, for example, the Globe?

 

[Shepard]

Corner of Broadway and Columbia, this 3 or 4 story residential project seems to have gone up very quickly. Here's a cool shot of the modular construction I got today...

I haven't seen any renders of this and don't really know much else about the project.