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[Suffolk 83]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

doesn't acid rain erode limestone?

 

[kz1000ps]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Does it? NYC's plethora of limestone buildings from the 1920s-30s seem to be holding up just fine.

 

[kennedy]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Well, lime is very basic, so acid rain would erode it. I would assume that the limestone used in construction is very much treated and is probably an aggregate. They have a ton of limestone civic buildings in Missouri, because the state is famous for its limestone. Those buildings, and the natural limestone outcroppings, have a totally different color. Much golder. Of course, this is all a guess.

 

[kz1000ps]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

It's too bad all the new limestone buildings we've been getting here (as well as in NYC) have been of the duller, less golden variety. Without that warmth, it's easy to think it's plain old precast.

 

[jass]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

doesn't acid rain erode limestone?

Due to the banning of various chemicals, acid rain is no longer a serious problem, so I doubt its effects were considered (if any).

Arent the planters on comm ave limestone?

 

[stellarfun]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Due to the banning of various chemicals, acid rain is no longer a serious problem, so I doubt its effects were considered (if any).

Arent the planters on comm ave limestone?

Acid rain is primarily caused by emissions from coal-burning power plants. Much of the acid rain that falls in the Northeast originates in the Midwest. The amount of acid rain is being reduced through emission controls on what comes out of the stacks. Banning of various chemicals has nothing to do with it.

From wiki, the chemistry of acid rain:

Sulfur dioxide and water form sulfurous acid (H2SO3)
SO2(g) + H2O(l) <--> H2SO3(aq)

In some cases sulfur dioxide (SO2) oxidizes to sulfur trioxide (SO3)
2SO2(g) + O2(g) -> 2SO3(g)

The sulfur trioxide (SO3) then combines with water making sulfuric acid (H2SO4) SO3(g) + H2O(l) -> H2SO4(aq)

Some oxides of nitrogen like nitrogen dioxide (NO2) react with water to form nitrous acid (HNO2) and nitric acid (HNO3) 2NO2(g) + H2O(l) -> HNO2(aq) + HNO3(aq)

 

[jass]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Acid rain is primarily caused by emissions from coal-burning power plants. Much of the acid rain that falls in the Northeast originates in the Midwest. The amount of acid rain is being reduced through emission controls on what comes out of the stacks. Banning of various chemicals has nothing to do with it.

From wiki, the chemistry of acid rain:

Sulfur dioxide and water form sulfurous acid (H2SO3)
SO2(g) + H2O(l) <--> H2SO3(aq)

In some cases sulfur dioxide (SO2) oxidizes to sulfur trioxide (SO3)
2SO2(g) + O2(g) -> 2SO3(g)

The sulfur trioxide (SO3) then combines with water making sulfuric acid (H2SO4) SO3(g) + H2O(l) -> H2SO4(aq)

Some oxides of nitrogen like nitrogen dioxide (NO2) react with water to form nitrous acid (HNO2) and nitric acid (HNO3) 2NO2(g) + H2O(l) -> HNO2(aq) + HNO3(aq)

Thats actually what I meant when I wrote chemicals. Wrong word.

 

[manoel]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Is someone go to the job site lately ? I heard they started hanging precast panels on the facades.

 

[czsz]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Yes, on the backside. You can only see them from campus now, not the street.

The building was topped off last week, btw.

 

[manoel]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

The precast panels are fabricated by a company named BPDL (Beton Prefabrique du Lac). This company is located in Alma, a small city in Quebec, Canada.

 

[kz1000ps]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Although some feel it didn't present a tall enough streetwall, I think it holds its own just fine.

 

[bdurden]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

There is something very Stalin-esque about this building.

 

[czsz]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

It monstrously towers over the building across Everett St (you can see this in the third photo), which Harvard has emptied of all tenants for mysterious reasons.

Feels like it belongs in DC more than Cambridge, if not some more authoritarian capital.

 

[blade_bltz]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Not digging the polygonal arch crap. Thanks for nothing, renderings.

 

[Justin7]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

^Temporary

 

[ablarc]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

It monstrously towers over the building across Everett St (you can see this in the third photo), which Harvard has emptied of all tenants for mysterious reasons.

Let's hope it's because Harvard intends to replace it with something bigger. Mass Ave shouldn't have single-story buildings that in New York would be derisively referred to as "taxpayers."

 

[czsz]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

They probably do, but it's weird they demanded all the tenants leave the premises this year, as they clearly have no money to start building anything anytime soon. It does nothing but deaden the neighborhood.

As for Mass. Ave., taxpayers are currently the rule, along with Victorian houses and yards. There's an increasing number of four-five story buildings, but assuming a constant rate of infill, it would be half a century or more before it fills out between Harvard and Porter.

 

[kz1000ps]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

Not digging the polygonal arch crap. Thanks for nothing, renderings.

Go back two pages in this thread.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex

I like how this is coming along.

 

[Boston02124]

Re: Cambridge Developments

today mass ave