This will be no Cambridge Crossing pace: 10-20 years:
No building permit may be issued for building construction in either of Phases 2 or 3 until all building and associated facilities are under construction in Phase 1, and the commencement of substantial construction activity for R1 in Phase 1 shall be deemed to be a significant portion of the required residential GFA within the Final Development Plan.
This is likely going to be one gigantic bathtub when construction starts. There's a massive multi-level parking garage underneath that spans most of the commercial/residential sites.
The architectural character 'analysis' for the residential buildings didn't seem too promising in terms of getting an icon: what they're taking from precedent studies is "Simple definition of pedestrian frontage, tower and top, strong expression of frame and legibility of scale, architectural language of residential" (aka like every other residential building that's gone up the past 10 years, as the images suggested).
The commercial precedents are equally depressing, but at least they acknowledge they're in the context of several iconic/well-done buildings (Media Lab, Volpe/SOM, Novaritis), and are looking at MIT Bldg 4, Harvard SEC, Cambridge Public Library, King Open School for solar control.
Here's the considerations taken so far on the 456' residential:
Many of the massing considerations for the commercial parcels remind me of Google-Kendall, and not in a good way. Way too many additional elements/movements/actions on some of them..
Other than that, everything seems pretty standard...