IMG_9904 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
Wait!!!! What happened to this???????????
Wow! I recently commented on another thread that the original Commonwealth Hotel looked like a gigantic plastic toy building. This is just about as bad, and not likely to get a makeover soon.
I was just thinking that this is what you get if you gave a very uncreative kid some plain gray basic lego bricks.
Standing by itself that wouldn't work, but mixed in with some (better) neighbors it could provide some cool juxtaposition.IMG_9906 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
Calm down, guys. It's a Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites, not the Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons. I think given the occupant and compared to what was there before, this is great. For cruise passengers spending a night or two next to Black Falcon Terminal hoping to walk to the ships, this is a superior addition than what you'd see in most domestic ports (I'm looking at you, FL) and even Caribbean ports. The color scheme and facade pattern--though a bait-and-switch--are no different than literally dozens of institutional and hotel projects built throughout Boston.
Visit the Google Images for "Hampton Inn" and "Homewood Suites." Boston made out okay.
ould have been nice if they had something a little bolder on this East facing blank wall.
Maybe something like they did at the Austin Homewood Suites.
Homewood-Suites-Austin-1_FPC by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
Calm down, guys. It's a Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites, not the Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons. I think given the occupant and compared to what was there before, this is great. For cruise passengers spending a night or two next to Black Falcon Terminal hoping to walk to the ships, this is a superior addition than what you'd see in most domestic ports (I'm looking at you, FL) and even Caribbean ports. The color scheme and facade pattern--though a bait-and-switch--are no different than literally dozens of institutional and hotel projects built throughout Boston.
Visit the Google Images for "Hampton Inn" and "Homewood Suites." Boston made out okay.