awood91
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WTF does woof mean when you say it in regards to a building? Woof for me is what a gay man say to another furry muscular gay man that he wants to fuck.
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Woof for me is what a gay man say to another furry muscular gay man that he wants to fuck.
Wait, if I woof at another guy (rarely happens outside of a gay venue), it's just a compliment, like, you're hot. If I'm with my partner or a friend and one of us woofs, the other will look around and say, who you woofing at? Same as when two straight dudes see a sexy girl...one might say to the other, damn, she's hot, or fuck. that's nice. A woof, to me is nothing more than a compliment whether the other guy hears it or not. And lots of gay guys don't even use the term.
https://flic.kr/p/26WavKF
I invite you to consider the irony of this architectural flourish when the attorney who represents this project has sought approval to demolish a pair of original brick bowfront townhouses (circa 1870) three blocks away.
https://flic.kr/p/26WawzM
Developer Joseph Nogueira of Woburn has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a one-story building housing the Maverick Street Market and the Swish & Swash Laundromat on Maverick Street across from Frankfort Street with a five-story building with 55 residential units - and room for the market and the laundromat to move back into.
Developer wants to replace market and laundromat with five-story building in East Boston
https://www.universalhub.com/2018/developer-could-replace-market-and-laundromat-five
Reviews are rather divergent, based on the neighborhood's "open discussion" page on Facebook. The scale and height are not problematic, but the design has all the charm of a refrigerator box. Total rubbish.
The East Boston Open Discussion page on FB is more toxic than the contaminated Monsanto soil remediated at the Encore casino site.
I'd take the Maverick redevelopment's charm of a refrigerator box over the current strip mall's charm of a strip mall.
WTF does woof mean when you say it in regards to a building? Woof for me is what a gay man say to another furry muscular gay man that he wants to fuck.
I swear the people who make it as architects these days are the ones that are the worst at architecture. Something weird is going on in that community for real.
Be very careful who you are pointing the finger at. Just like any other markets, the designers follow their clients needs and designers that refuse to stoop to the developers lack of vision go out of business because there is no other business for designers right now but to work for developers. An architect is not someone who sits in a room and draws stuff and then points at a site and tells someone to build it. An architect is a designer. A designer who is handed a set of criteria. 100% of the time any architect worth their licence will try to have discussions with the client about things that are believed to be important. Like, street presence, richness of experience (blah blah blah). Right now the housing boom is pushing the developers to build at the lowest common denominator and thus the criteria for a successful project for the client does not have to have those things that you are VERY RIGHT for critiquing. Lack of scale, lack of delight, lack of social interaction. I am just asking that you not call out one part of a very complex system of choices and say "what is happening with THAT community". This community still designs to the criteria given, tries to educate our clients as to what is responsible design, and in general just tries to stay afloat from month to month. (I am not kidding)
cca
Very nicely summarized.
I'll add that we are seeing a lot of the same architects over and over again in these neighborhoods. I suspect a lot of them are working on a razor thin margin to get the jobs. And they just can't put any work into the projects--so everything is a bit cookie cutter.
If architects were paid any kind of reasonable wage we might see better work but we live in a world where architects were sued for collusion decades ago and the AIA hasn't figured out how to make up for that.
Be very careful who you are pointing the finger at. Just like any other markets, the designers follow their clients needs and designers that refuse to stoop to the developers lack of vision go out of business because there is no other business for designers right now but to work for developers. An architect is not someone who sits in a room and draws stuff and then points at a site and tells someone to build it. An architect is a designer. A designer who is handed a set of criteria. 100% of the time any architect worth their licence will try to have discussions with the client about things that are believed to be important. Like, street presence, richness of experience (blah blah blah). Right now the housing boom is pushing the developers to build at the lowest common denominator and thus the criteria for a successful project for the client does not have to have those things that you are VERY RIGHT for critiquing. Lack of scale, lack of delight, lack of social interaction. I am just asking that you not call out one part of a very complex system of choices and say "what is happening with THAT community". This community still designs to the criteria given, tries to educate our clients as to what is responsible design, and in general just tries to stay afloat from month to month. (I am not kidding)
cca
I made the mistake of thinking Clippership Wharf was going to be amazing.... by the waterfront renders. Instead of a gated community that they really dont want you in.