Longwood Center (Joslin Place) | 360 Longwood Ave | Longwood Medical Area

cca said:
Nah ... the players are playing in different leagues.


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I don't know about that. Between the new Dana Farber, BMC Ambulatory and Spaulding the medical sector has somehow managed to field a pretty decent team as of late.
 
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kz1000ps said:
I don't know about that. Between the new Dana Farber, BMC Ambulatory and Spaulding the medical sector has somehow managed to field a pretty decent team as of late.
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I guess I am referring to the design and delivery process was very different which results is very different quality of design and construction quality.

Maybe I am wrong. I guess I am just not a fan of this building. There are some esoteric architectural things about this that I just do not like. Purely subjective.

cca
 


What's this building coming up in front of it?









 
^^ I also like how these two projects on Brookline Ave help enclose the area. Between the setback facades of Beth Israel and the sports fields on the other side the area has always been oddly wide open.

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LMA tower to be completed by year’s end

By Peter Shanley

LMA—The Longwood Center, an 11-story medical research building located at the corner of Brookline and Longwood Avenues, will finish construction in the last quarter of this year, according National Development managing partner Jack O’Neil.

National Development is one of four partners for the project. The other partners are Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Charles River Realty Fund and Clarion Partners.

O’Neil said in an email to the Gazette that the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will occupy 40 percent of the 414,000-square-foot tower, while the remaining space is still open.

The project has been in the works since 2003 and has gone through several different plans. The Joslin Diabetes Center originally attempted to develop the 1-acre site into a 600,000-square-foot, mixed-use project that included a 30-story residential tower. In 2007, Joslin backed out and put the site and project up for sale.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., National Development and Charles River Realty Fund bought the property in 2007. It was later announced at a Longwood Medical Area forum that the project would no longer include the housing tower.

The issue of housing on the site was a contentious one, as Joslin evicted hundreds of residents from the 84-unit Longwood Gardens apartment building at 368-372 Longwood Ave. to make way for the project.

The new owners demolished a historic firehouse and apartment building that were located on the site in 2008 before halting construction.
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Proportionally tortured. Well dressed. Still awkward.

cca
 
cca said:
Proportionally tortured. Well dressed. Still awkward.

cca
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That's an apt description if nearly every medical/lab building in the area, from Longwood to Kendall to Fan Pier.
 
Not bad at all. Wish 75 Ames could have had some of the sleekness of this one. Sort of the same relative bulk but handled much better.
 
I went down Longwood for the first time in almost a year the other day. The difference this building makes is incredible.
 
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