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Maybe Trump was right, all new federal buildings should be Neo Classical.
Maybe Trump was right, all new federal buildings should be Neo Classical.
Hah. I'm not a fan of this building at all..., the whole treatment is just so sterile. Let's hope the rest of the Volpe redevelopment makes us forget about this thing.
This one's going to be a matter of taste. In my opinion it's the best new office building in Kendall. It looks like it was designed by actual architects with vision and follow-through. Federal buildings will always be sterile.
It's a monolith...great for monuments, bad for buildings that humans are forced to look at.Hah. I'm not a fan of this building at all..., the whole treatment is just so sterile. Let's hope the rest of the Volpe redevelopment makes us forget about this thing.
It looks extremely national/federal government. Like, it could be at home in an embassy row in an alpha-tier global city. I suppose that's an upgrade to Boston and Cambridge's beta-tier global cities ranking.
.... the France-based company worries that two new [condo] towers proposed by the developer Tenblock — just a few hundred metres away, at 1875 Steeles Ave. W. — could jeopardize its security. Each tower would be more than 30 storeys high.
"The location of hundreds of new residential units with a 24/7 overlook of its sensitive facilities undermines Sanofi's ability to ensure its ongoing and expanding vaccine research and manufacturing facilities are secure," reads a letter from Sanofi's lawyers to city planners.
And that, the letter continues, "represents national security concerns given the strategic importance of the site for vaccine manufacturing and future pandemic readiness."
I saw that and had a similar thought.Looks like SOM took some blueprints for Volpe and cut them down a bit for this...
www.archpaper.com/2022/02/som-fort-lauderdale-federal-courthouse-design-wins-gsa-approval/