Emerson College - Little Building Addition + Renovation | 80 Boylston St | Downtown

The finest cladding given to a Boston bldg since how long?

The 1910's?

1971?
 
odurandina said:
The finest cladding given to a Boston bldg since how long?

The 1910's?

1971?
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It is certainly an amazing recreation of the original. And the window well infill glass is top quality as well.

This is pretty generous give-back to the City, by Emerson, in terms of architectural restoration. That reconstruction has to be costing a fortune.
 
Beautiful. How much are Emerson tuitions going up? Haha
 
BussesAin'tTrains said:
Beautiful. How much are Emerson tuitions going up? Haha
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This was done for pennies on the dollar from the original (adjusting for inflation). This was all machine made from a digital scan of the original and had 0 human hands carving anything.

Tuition may have gone up ... but not because of this project.

cca
 
Which begs the question, why in the digital age can we not get beautiful facades like this more regularly?
 
Good question. That should mean they can just program a cad model with blueprints for an original design and do all kinds of amazing things.
 
stick n move said:
Good question. That should mean they can just program a cad model with blueprints for an original design and do all kinds of amazing things.
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Because flat panels are even cheaper.

Also ornament is crime, etc...
 
Scanning/CNC is going to be a great tool in the kit of preservers/restorers, and sculptural milling and printing will become more prevalent but it's not that easy to model or document from a design perspective. There aren't a ton of firms in the world who are capable of producing the swoopy sculptural stuff at a high level, though hopefully these technologies make their jobs a little bit easier.

It does feel though, that we're emerging from the dark age of "how do you draw/coordinate/construct a detail like that." Before that was the era of craftsmanship and hereafter will be craftsroboticism or whatever. But drawing this stuff is still hard.
 
cadetcarl said:
Scanning/CNC is going to be a great tool in the kit of preservers/restorers, and sculptural milling and printing will become more prevalent but it's not that easy to model or document from a design perspective. There aren't a ton of firms in the world who are capable of producing the swoopy sculptural stuff at a high level, though hopefully these technologies make their jobs a little bit easier.

It does feel though, that we're emerging from the dark age of "how do you draw/coordinate/construct a detail like that." Before that was the era of craftsmanship and hereafter will be craftsroboticism or whatever. But drawing this stuff is still hard.
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Yeah, but can your CNC machine do hot rivets?
 
bdurden said:
Which begs the question, why in the digital age can we not get beautiful facades like this more regularly?
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They are still more expensive than no doing a beautiful facade and aesthetic trends change. This of it like this ... leggings are in ... ruffles are out.

cca

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statler said:
Because flat panels are even cheaper.

Also ornament is crime, etc...
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Ha ... I posted before I saw this one. We are saying the same thing no?
 
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