Holocaust Museum Boston | 125 Tremont Street | Downtown

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Little nibbles of this sort eventually change our city. Not for the better. This sounds like hyperbole, I know, but it's not. A building here, a building there, old, yes, but not meritorious enough to preserve. Then we build a fairly obtuse statement like this, or too often even worse, and we call it progress. It's not.
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Could you give some specific examples? I have a sense you are pushing the frog in a pot theory, to point out that individual small lot building replacement can ultimately create more collective harm, than, say large scale urban renewal. My view is that generally the small scale tweaking is the right approach to keeping the city from becoming moribund while not sacrificing large swaths of existing urban fabric. But I'm open to hearing more about this idea you are suggesting.
 
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I walked past this corner last week. It's such a busy pedestrian area, one of the busiest on a nice day because of The Common and T station. Hopefully the ground floor will be inviting for new visitors. Never has there been a better time for more awareness (for all peoples).
 
For all of the initial negative reactions to this building design for the location, it appears to be, at least from initial views of the facade, to work quite well here.
Does anyone actually miss the building it is replacing?
 
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I love asymmetrical bay windows. This one will look out over The Common and Back Bay's hi-rises. It's a nice touch with a museum to pause from the seriousness of the exhibits.
 
There is supposed to be glass installed over top of the white panels which will be laid to create a wavy texture, which should look better than it does now.
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The glass also appears to have a ceramic frit dot matrix imbedded into it causing it to have more of a textured almost hazy look to it.
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stick n move said:
There is supposed to be glass installed over top of the white panels which will be laid to create a wavy texture, which should look better than it does now.
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The glass also appears to have a ceramic frit dot matrix imbedded into it causing it to have more of a textured almost hazy look to it.
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I walked past on Labor day weekend and was looking at these attachments. I am curious if is glass or a metal "drapery" of sorts. Similar to this Kaynemaile product where they can do a bunch of different exterior types. I say that because those images don't show alot of support for large pieces of glass.

EDIT: just pulled this from the SPRA presentation in the first post of the thread.
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