Graduate Junction (MIT West Campus) | 269-301 Vassar St | Cambridge

From my GoPro today (7.7.24). Perspective makes it look smaller than it is...it really does stand out in this area given most of it is low-rises or surface parking.

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FYI, MIT has named this dorm "Graduate Junction," apparently an homage to the famous (ly underutilized) railroad that runs beside it

Graduate Junction, Buildings W87 and W88

Graduate Junction will add 676 new beds on the west side of campus, expanding housing options for graduate students and establishing a vibrant nexus of student and community activity near historic Fort Washington Park.
capitalprojects.mit.edu

@sm89 or @BeeLine or @vanshnookenraggen , up to you if you want to update the thread title to denote this
 
DZH22 said:
Looking down Vassar Street.

IMG_0172 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0174 by David Z, on Flickr
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The red/brown (masonry?) ground floor makes the entire building fit in perfectly with the row of adjoining buildings along the block. Context sensitive design played well here. The Shreve Crump and Lowe replacement building could have followed this type of context sensitive approach and worked a lot better. MIT is a master at respecting and complementing the historical context in its development of the area. Go Cambridge and MIT!
 
Charlie_mta said:
The red/brown (masonry?) ground floor makes the entire building fit in perfectly with the row of adjoining buildings along the block. Context sensitive design played well here. The Shreve Crump and Lowe replacement building could have followed this type of context sensitive approach and worked a lot better. MIT is a master at respecting and complementing the historical context in its development of the area. Go Cambridge and MIT!
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This whole stretch of Vassar has become quite the attractive streetscape. The new sidewalks and cycletracks are great, as are the pedestrian cut-throughs over the grand junction tracks.
 
They managed to put colossal order alternating windows on even this project. Incredible. Every architect in this city has the same prion disease.
 
What will it take for Boston’s corps of second rate architects to abandon this lazy trope?
 
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