MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

[Randy N. Craven-Krawtch]

Cladding has started to be applied.

 

[Arenacale]

9/6

 

[Hardisx]

 

[Mike]

I really wasn't expecting something this tall, even with the renders.

 

[BeeLine]

As of 9/8.

 

[Suffolk 83]

I really wasn't expecting something this tall, even with the renders.

If this building was residential all of beacon hill would have pitched a shit fit but since its MGH is glided thru the approval process.

 

[eber]

If this building was residential all of beacon hill would have pitched a shit fit but since its MGH is glided thru the approval process.

Hopefully this height will help the redevelopment on top of the West End Library down the block which the latest RFPs range from an 82ft, 84 unit senior housing to a 230 ft, 180 units of senior+family housing.

EDIT: Whoops, I missed/forgot the news that this one was chosen (155ft / 119 units)

 

[taketern]

 

[kz1000ps]

 

[Equilibria]

I was not prepared for how much of a skyline impact these buildings will have. From the Mass. Ave. Bridge, they're basically as prominent as 1 Longfellow Place.

 

[stick n move]

Ragon Building at MGH Tops Out​

“The upcoming Phillip and Susan Ragon Building at Massachusetts General Hospital has officially topped out. The new 17-story state-of-the-art clinical care building will include 482 single-bed inpatient rooms and will be home to the Mass General Cancer Center and the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center.”


Something I dont remember reading before:

“The structure was designed to function ‘as an island’ during a natural disaster and is touted as one of the most progressive healthcare designs of the 21st Century for future climate change and environmental resiliency.”

https://www.bldup.com/posts/ragon-building-at-mgh-tops-out

 

[themissinglink]

Something I dont remember reading before:

“The structure was designed to function ‘as an island’ during a natural disaster and is touted as one of the most progressive healthcare designs of the 21st Century for future climate change and environmental resiliency.”

Here's an article from February 2019 with more info:

Mass General Hospital designing $1 billion emergency buildings

<p>Massachusetts General Hospital is in the process of designing a $1 billion bunker to be used as a place of refuge during a natural or man-made disaster. </p>

www.boston25news.com

It's a place where patients and staff could potentially “shelter in place” for four days in the face of disaster. "I think we’re going to be one of the trend setters in terms of what does a modern hospital need today in the City of Boston to withstand any disaster human or natural," Saba said.

 

[shawn]

I really wasn't expecting something this tall, even with the renders.

I was just typing this. I'm pleasantly surprised by its visual impact, even from across the Charles.

 

[DZH22]

I hadn't quite remembered what this would look like, so when I first saw that reddish cladding I got very excited imagining 300' of that. Now that some of the beige has been added I went back to review the renders and can't help but be disappointed. It sure is a monster for the area though, but very fat and very beige.

 

[taketern]

 

[#bancars]

9/30/24:

 

[DZH22]

10/5

IMG_0054 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0072 by David Z, on Flickr

 

[RandomWalk]

That’s going to be a big boy on the skyline.

 

[sm89]

That’s going to be a big boy on the skyline.

I bike over the Mass Ave bridge daily and I was really surprised how prominent this was in the 'skyline'.

 

[cburns]

That’s going to be a big boy on the skyline.

It's almost surreal in real life too. Biking past this building, it really awes in terms of size; this expansion of MGH is huge.