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BB, that looks a lot like the MIT building that was built recently. Or it may have been Northeastern, can't remember exactly. Either way, it's too postmodern for my tastes.
 
kennedy said:
BB, that looks a lot like the MIT building that was built recently. Or it may have been Northeastern, can't remember exactly. Either way, it's too postmodern for my tastes.
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How can you tell when a building is postmodern?


Come on, I'm looking for an essay.
 
Well...do you want the sterile art history exam definition I gave just a week ago, or do you want specifically why I'm not a fan of this "Linked Hybrid" stuff?

For starters, it was built in 2010 and there's no other real "style" for this generation (something I intend to be a part in changing). It's colorful, fairly amorphous, with an odd roofline, and is essentially an exercise in construction technology. If it were Modern, it would be a lot squarer. Not to mention, more attractive.
 
i don't think that model of the next building is that horrible, at least the building has some interesting angles and curves in it. I am holding off judgment until i see some better renderings and plans.
 
Why reserve judgment when the verdict is already in?
 
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I think i would like this building more (doesn't mean i would actually like it) if it just wasn't beige. Beige looks terrible with Boston's gray skies IMO.
 
The cheap glass cysts create an atrocity out of an otherwise antipathetic concrete box.
 
Boston Herald

Cirque du Soleil setting up at Fan Pier
By Thomas Grillo
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - Added 0m ago


E-mail Print (0) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!Fan Pier will be the summer home for the Boston run of Cirque du Soleil.

Developer Joseph Fallon is leasing his parking lot adjacent to One Marina Park Drive on the city?s waterfront to the Quebec-based group for an undisclosed price.

The troupe will erect a Big Top for summer performances of Ovo - ?egg? in Portuguese - a show built around the world of insects.


Tickets go on sale today priced from $50 to $230. The show will be in town from July 22 through Aug. 15.



Fallon thinking outside the box.
 
In the past, Cirque du Soleil have set up in the parking lots of Suffolk Downs and the Bayside Expo Center. I can't remember if they've been to Fan Pier before.
 
Great photo. Love the colors in the water and the Tobin Bridge way out there over the boats.
 
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