GrandMarc Residence Hall (YMCA) @ Northeastern U | 291 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

Downburst said:
Every rendering on that page features beige precast panels instead of the garish orange we have now. How I wish they went for beige instead. Then this project would merely be bland instead of borderline offensive.
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Ahhhh it all makes sense now. Supplier ran out of beige and said: "Why don't you just use all these orange panels we have lying around, and then intersperse it with the few beige ones that are left? Nobody will notice."

But alas, somebody did, in fact, notice. Fail.
 
Just today I was waiting for my bus by the Marino Center and it struck me that the orange here is very similar to the MassArt tower. I can only imagine that they were pleasantly surprised (as we all were) by it and thought they should emulate it. Buuuuut there was no money to do it any sort of justice and this is what we ended up with. Or at least that's my grand unified theory on what the hell happened.

So here's to euphemistically calling this one a Budget Tree House.

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They probably got a buik deal on leftover precast panels from a Courtyard by Marriott project.
 
Lord have mercy on the architects and designers who foisted this boil on the citizens of Boston.
 
This building looks like it's made of petrified vomit.
 
kz1000ps said:
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I get that 'random' patterns are in for this decade in architecture, but the way the facade comes together, it looks like the builders spilt coffee on the paint by numbers plan...or the plant making the panels hired a colour blind guy for quality assurance and they put the panels up anyway...
 
commuter guy said:
Lord have mercy on the architects and designers who foisted this boil on the citizens of Boston.
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Better yet, Lord have mercy on the citizens of Boston who have had this boil of a building foisted on them by misanthropic bottom-shelf architects/designers and developers.
 
They sure are taking their time here. WE WANT ALUCOBOND!

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Yeah this one started off fast, they got the orange stuff in quickly, and now we've been looking at the same exterior for weeks, possibly a month or more. I suppose they're working on interiors and cleaning up the YMCA facade.
 
Wow they've got the slightly different colored panels, offset windows, and 1950's blue colored inserts in the same project. Looks like they're following the checklist for making a building look "modern" these days. LOL
 
Oy. Well, at least we can hope that the promising Science Center going up in the Columbus Lot will deflect attention away from this thing.
 
The Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building(s) will have multiple phases. The first one under construction will be six stories, but later phases will be up to 2x and 3x that height, also on the rest of the Columbus lot footprint.
 
datadyne007 said:
Isn't the Science Center only a mid-rise (~5-6 stories)?
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Regardless of the height/skyline impact, I would expect Northeastern to play the Science Center up/advertise it more than they ever would this project. In some ways, they already have.

For what it's worth- this tower will be called "East Village" and should be occupied starting in January. There's a halfway decent chance that I end up living there, and if I do, I will be sure to share the interiors (which will probably be good) and the skyline views (which will be incredible) with you all.
 
Isn't the ultimate purpose of a residence hall to provide a good living environment for its residents? Or is it to please architectural critics who are seldom if ever satisfied?
 
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