Marine Wharf (Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites) | 660 Summer St | Seaport

BarbaricManchurian said:
Was this VE’d?
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Oh you betcha

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Should have been built on a back street, where it could have been hidden by a group of decent-looking structures. Those blank walls! Maybe it's actually a telephone switching station from the 50's.
 
This one is even worse than Kenmore North. What is happening with architecture? Cheap ugly seems to be "in" with these low-end developments. The high-end ones (like the Sudbury, Alcott, and State Street HQ) can still be great, but there are too many of these throwaway developments like this one being approved.
 
For the record,....

Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. and Harbinger Development are developing a $176 million Hampton Inn by Hilton and Homewood Suites by Hilton Boston Seaport in a 14-story, 400-room hotel building at 660 Seaport Blvd., which Suffolk Construction is building.

Intercontintental CEO Peter Palandjian, Harbinger Managing Partner Eamon O’Marah

“This is a homecoming in many ways,” Palandjian said. “Boston is our home city and a market in which we have more than 50 years of experience. The Seaport District is more captivating than ever during this economic boom in Massachusetts, and this is a high-quality investment that will allow us to provide good union jobs and help move the city’s economy forward.”

“This is an exciting project, an exciting location, and an exciting time in the Boston market,” O’Marah, Harbinger's managing partner, said of the Seaport Hotel project. “The experience and skill of Intercontinental has helped us bring two best-in-class Hilton Hotel brands to the Seaport, providing much-needed hotel room supply to the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston Cruise Port, and the emerging Marine Park.”

The Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites project architects are Perkins & Will and Group One.
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393b40 said:
The architect for this building should be banned from architecting
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The weird thing is that this is Perkins and Will. They do some really nice work. Just not in the Boston office
 
DwnTwnr said:
The weird thing is that this is Perkins and Will. They do some really nice work. Just not in the Boston office
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As I'm often reminded, it's not necessarily the architect. They're not the ones to VE the projects. That would be the developer. This thing makes me angry every time I have to pass by it.
 
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