Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

[bdurden]

^Yes it's Rindge and Latin -- here is a renovation blog:

http://crlsrenovation.wordpress.com/

There's no plan to "de-deco" the school -- it's largely interior renovations and to make the building LEED certified.

 

[czsz]

Too bad about Design Research. When will the new store move in? Could this have become a branch of Louis/Boston?

It shouldn't be too long before Anthropologie moves in; there are workers in and around the place right now. I think Louis Boston's ambitions are to cater to the real high rollers - lawyers and financiers - who live and work in Boston. Leave Cambridge to J. Press and the Andover Shop.

 

[ablarc]

There's no plan to "de-deco" the school -- it's largely interior renovations and to make the building LEED certified.

So what are the rooftop uprights that look set to host a parapet? Will it be bronze-tone corrugated metal?

 

[briv]

Anyone know what's going up on Elm and Cambridge St? I tried searching around on Google but couldn't find anything.

 

[blade_bltz]

http://www.cambridgema.gov/~CDD/ed/reservices/devlog/devlog_0310.pdf

Looks like 19 affordable units @ 1066 Cambridge St

 

[Boston02124]

Alewife

 

[czsz]

"Lipstick on a Pig" etc etc

 

[AmericanFolkLegend]

[Lipstick rolling over in its grave]

 

[kz1000ps]

Hotel Veritas, 2010.07.31

 

[czsz]

I walk by this every other day.

Unfathomably hideous color. Stupid design. Opportunity to replace a decaying eyesore lost by building a fresh eyesore.

No idea why they didn't just leave the old triple decker and just repaint the damn thing, unless it was being eaten by termites. It must have been expensive to effectively rebuild it board by board.

 

[kz1000ps]

I literally rubbed my eyes when I saw this from a few blocks away thinking it couldn't be as dour a grey as it is. Light just disappears when it hits this thing.

 

[AmericanFolkLegend]

I know someone has pointed this out before, but that transformer box is a real head scratcher. They couldn't put it in a vault underground or something?

 

[jass]

I like it

 

[czsz]

How?

 

[ablarc]

Why is it so small?

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

I have to agree, I like it too. Yes the color is pretty terrible and it should have been at least as tall as it's neighbor, but it balances the old and new better than most. It isn't a looker but it doesn't stand out by trying to be flashy and modern like all the other crap on that street (or worse, trying to be everything at once like 1 Arrow across the street).

 

[Lurker]

Someone in the hotel's management needs to realize there is a Gothic/Victorian theme would could be capitalized on and drop the stupid Harvard whoring name.

1 Arrow is essentially a cheap copy of a lot of the buildings now going up in Slovakia/Romania. The design would work with more elegantly inset windows, but that's asking too much of cheap developers. Honestly who keeps picking the Traveler's Insurance Building panels for all of these recent projects? Was there a group buy?

 

[Ron Newman]

By "1 Arrow" do you actually mean "Zero Arrow" (now renamed to Oberon) ?

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Only in Cambridge can you have a "0" address. When do we get negative numbers? Or better yet, straight up math equations as addresses?

 

[czsz]

Well, we already have imaginary addresses ("One BankNorth Garden Place," etc.)

Someone in the hotel's management needs to realize there is a Gothic/Victorian theme would could be capitalized on and drop the stupid Harvard whoring name.

Since they adopted both the name and the theme at the same time, I'm not sure the management is too perceptive.