Massachusetts General Hospital Building For The Third Century

[BarbaricManchurian]

Massachusetts General Hospital is building a new building "which will address specific needs of the hospital’s emergency services, radiation oncology, radiology, inpatient and outpatient surgery and related support procedures, and acute and intensive care inpatient capacity." (http://www.mghgifts.org/areas.asp?id=capital)

Pics by me (renders by MGH):

Renders:

Project notification:

Construction site overview (demolishing historic buildings in front, recladding ones in back):

Close-ups of the recladding:

This building will be demolished shortly, you see that it's prepped for demolition:

Buildings already demolished:

 

[atlantaden]

BarMan, you were certainly busy this past weekend! Super pics/narrative and thanks for including the renderings! Very sharp additions to MGH!
I hate to think what sort of backwater city Boston would be without it's Medical Facilities and Research Universities and smaller colleges that are located here. Imagine Boston/Cambridge without MIT, Harvard, BU, Northeastern, BC, Suffolk, Simmons, Emerson, Emmanuel, NE Conservatory of Music, Berklee...and all the rest along with MGH, Tuft's-New England, BU Medical Center, Children's, Brigham and Women's, etc. You get the picture. Would it's financial institutions be enough to keep the city going? The Pharmecuticals certainly wouldn't be here no any of the tech industries. And yet, especially with the Universities and Colleges, almost whenever they try to expand (even when it means great improvements to the existing neighborhoods) they are met with such hostile resistance it's mind-boggling. Not saying they should have carte-blanche to do whatever but it seems like the present time, they're damned if they do...damned if they don't. Many cities would kill to have any one of the above institutions relocate to their city....Boston is very, very lucky to have such a concentration of medical and educational institutions.

 

[Corey]

thanks for all the pictures!

 

[BarbaricManchurian]

Here's some more pics by me (sorry for the bad image quality, most are heavily zoomed and at night):

Seems like they're not recladding the brick buildings like I said earlier, but deconstructing them.

And a bonus shot from the other end of the parking garage where I took these pics:

 

[Arborway]

Re: MGH Building for the Third Century

"Clean materials" and "Bright colors" = Code-phrases for "We're making it look like a stereotypical hospital. Warm? Inviting? Nope!"

 

[kz1000ps]

Pics, mockup and on-site renders from yesterday:

Mockup:

renderings posted on-site:

 

[Patriots_1228]

MGH has a lot of great buildings. The view from the yawkey building is spectacular.

 

[TheBostonBoy]

Impressive.

 

[Suffolk 83]

Yawkey building is on Cambridge st no?

 

[kz1000ps]

Yes. Well, just behind a little brick building.

 

[kz1000ps]

8/21:

And leaving the Yawkey building in the passenger seat of this Tahoe was none other than Senator Ted Kennedy!

It was funny because before I knew who was in the vehicle I heard the employees saying "everything good?" "take care", "have a safe trip!" and the like, which I laughed at in my head, thinking "Damn, that's some friendly service! Is this how they treat everyone leaving their parking garage?" Of course a split second later I looked in, saw who it was, and snapped the blurry pic. Mr. Kennedy then smiled and waved to me right after that.

 

[kz1000ps]

 

[Boston02124]

today 03-018-09

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Somehow I missed this thread. Those window mock-ups look sick.

 

[DZH22]

From yesterday

 

[Boston02124]

^ like that last one ,a little taller and it would have added to the skyline,2 from today they don't allow you to slow down(when driveing) in this area ,so pardon the pixs!

 

[BarbaricManchurian]

actually looks pretty cool

 

[tmac9wr]

Yea I was walking by there to visit a friend @ Spaulding Rehabilitation Center last Friday...the development looked really cool. I should have taken a picture while I was there.

 

[armpitsOFmight]

Update

 

[kz1000ps]

Entrance from Storrow: