Cold Spring Green (Newton)

[Shepard]

On Beacon Street at Four Corners, adjacent to Cold Spring Park, these four units in two townhouses have quietly gone up (not even on Google Streetview yet). I happened to drive by yesterday. "Green credentials" include geothermal and solar, among other things.

I don't think these pictures (not mine) do it justice - seems to make them look much cheaper and more ordinary than the effect has in person.

Architect is Hisham Ashkouri.

Original renderings and interior views: http://www.arcadd.com/Portfolio/Sustainable/csg.htm

I would love to see a dense row-house district built in this style.

 

[czsz]

Plus a few stories, minus some excessive lawn space, this is what the never-built little side streets of the Seaport should have looked like.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

I like those. It's a shame they look so out of place in the middle of a suburb. I agree, this is closer to what the Seaport should have been.

 

[Arborway]

They look like beachfront condos built in 1988.

 

[Mayor Menino's Crohn's]

Looks like condos from the Golden Girls...

 

[Equilibria]

I like those. It's a shame they look so out of place in the middle of a suburb. I agree, this is closer to what the Seaport should have been.

I feel like those would look out of place anywhere. I don't love it, but don't hate it. It's interesting. The multifamily element feels a bit weird right at that point on Beacon, though. The Seaport could be more interesting, but I'm not sure I would have loved whole neighborhoods of this.

 

[Ron Newman]

Where on Beacon is this?

 

[Beton Brut]

These are really slick. Shades of Sea Ranch and Edward Larrabee Barnes' Haystack Mountain School. I may have preferred masonry cladding (Aalto's S?yn?tsalo Town Hall) but nothing says New England like white clapboard siding.

 

[Shepard]

Where on Beacon is this?

About a quarter of a mile west of the intersection with Walnut Street - past a small retail plaza and a brick multistory office building. Beyond that is Cold Spring Park.