Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

Something along these lines would be nice imo. A couple residential towers surrounded by some brick mid and low rises with ground floor retail and a cross streets or two.

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^^^I certainly hope we could do better than a pair of 20-30 story residentials. That's significantly smaller than the Longfellow towers, which are already dwarfed by the towers by North Station.

Honestly, if we end up with a smaller version of this I would consider that result to be pretty pathetic and a gigantic wasted opportunity.

Towers at Longfellow Apartments by Gunnar Klack, on Flickr
 
FormFollowsBudget said:
I would happily welcome a Boston Barbican if someone was daring enough.
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That would likely be the best option, given the faux historic preservation concerns. I'd still like to see these building lifted up by a thousand helicopters and moved to some location out beyond 128. I think they are great buildings, just terrible urbanism.
 
The state should renovate both the Hurley and the Linderman Center buildings into a new Suffolk Superior Court House and sell the current buildings on Pemberton Square/Beacon Hill . The state would make a killing on selling those buildings to a residential developer. The Hurley building should be renovated to it original architecture and finally fix that courtyard at the Linderman that was turned into a parking lot. If needed, build a tower on a parking garage in the courtyard area..
 
dhawkins said:
The state should renovate both the Hurley and the Linderman Center buildings into a new Suffolk Superior Court House and sell the current buildings on Pemberton Square/Beacon Hill . The state would make a killing on selling those buildings to a residential developer. The Hurley building should be renovated to it original architecture and finally fix that courtyard at the Linderman that was turned into a parking lot. If needed, build a tower on a parking garage in the courtyard area..
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Converting Brutalist buildings for a new use is almost always a financial non-starter. The design (and all the building systems) are literally set in concrete. It is almost always much cheaper to start over than repurpose a Brutalist design.
 
chrisbrat said:
full agreement. i despise that building.
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It's an enormous eyesore now, and if it's left standing, it will be an enormous eyesore in 30-50 years. It's not like this misuse of space will ever be back in-style. Cities were attempting to look less dense and more like the suburbs when this abomination was designed and built.
 
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