MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

Justbuildit said:
Wow, missed that there was going to be a second building at all. I'd guess they're going to consolidate the brick building offices into the new building before demo starts on the former. Seems to fit with the 2026/7 timeline. This complex is going to be massive once complete.
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Yea the one on the right is u/c one of the left is coming later.
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The angles and window sizes on the tower remind me of the Nashua St Jail.
 
I think they should keep the brick building where the second tower is going and build the tower on the massive parking garage directly behind it. Too late tho.

Does anyone know if its one of the few buildings left after the west end demolition or was it built later.

I tried to find it here but its very hard to tell, think kind of looks like it.
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stick n move said:
I think they should keep the brick building where the second tower is going and build the tower on the massive parking garage directly behind it. Too late tho.

Does anyone know if its one of the few buildings left after the west end demolition or was it built later.

I tried to find it here but its very hard to tell, think kind of looks like it.
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Nope; while it looks old, the Professional Office Building and the Trustees' House are actually quite new - they were only built in 1990, echoing the 1892 resident physicans house across the street, but since that's since been obscured by the 2011 Russell Muesum building... There's basically no historical preservation value.

Meanwhile, what may have been worth preserving was actually located on the phase 1 site - the 1884 Winchell School & the early 1900s West End Tenement & Settlement houses. All 3 of those were demolished back in 2022, (see page 7-8 of this thread) but I believe the plan is to reconstruct a corner of the Winchell School facade as part of this building.
 
Czervik.Construction said:
I am obviously no architect, but that exterior seems awfully busy. Looks like a collage of styles, like a vision board or something.
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I don’t think it’s going to look incredible when it’s finished, but I do think a lot of the “busyness“ is because it’s still under construction. Once the majority of the façade is those panels it’ll look different.
 
Czervik.Construction said:
I am obviously no architect, but that exterior seems awfully busy. Looks like a collage of styles, like a vision board or something.
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The facade of a hospital should be rational, orderly, and clean, like the work that goes on inside. Even a pediatric hospital or wing should share these design principles, but those should have some kind of large kid-friendly artwork or fountain.
 
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