Middlesex County Courthouse Redevelopment | 40 Thorndike St | East Cambridge

DZH22 said:
6/16 From Chelsea.
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Damn, DZ, if one can make out individual steel beams atop 40 Thorndike in Cambridge from Chelsea, you have one hell of a camera. (And, yes, I know I've given you crap for your penchant for obscure distance shots in the past ; )...but, what can I say, whatever your new setup deserves some props. Credit where it's due!).
 
bigpicture7 said:
Damn, DZ, if one can make out individual steel beams atop 40 Thorndike in Cambridge from Chelsea, you have one hell of a camera. (And, yes, I know I've given you crap for your penchant for obscure distance shots in the past ; )...but, what can I say, whatever your new setup deserves some props. Credit where it's due!).
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It's not a great camera, but suits my purposes very well for the far-away landscape shots. It's basically just a better/newer/not-yet-ruined version of my prior camera.

6/25 From the Madonna Shrine

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So far, I really like this building and the cladding. LEAP years ahead of what was the Middlesex Courthouse where I did Jury Duty several times in the past. :)
 
Java King said:
So far, I really like this building and the cladding. LEAP years ahead of what was the Middlesex Courthouse where I did Jury Duty several times in the past. :)
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A lot of forumers were really crapping on this cladding when the renders were first released (see far upthread). I too was skeptical at that time. But, while this isn't my favorite building aesthetically, count me as one who is pleased with how it came out. I walk around here quite often, as my posts likely imply. My thoughts are that there is SO much red brick in the area, that the cladding seems to have been chosen to help integrate with that. I think people were concerned that it would be too pale/pink-ish colored, but it has turned out to be a deeper color that jibes quite nicely with the red brick. My second observation is that this is not a 'flat' facade. There's a fair amount of detailing and depth. These latter attributes help mitigate the boring/overdone aesthetic that some were worried would be attributed to (what they thought was) yet another flat terra cotta facade.

I think this building does a decent job with the hand it was dealt.
 
This building is being transformed from a contender for the third ugliest building in the world to a solid 7 or 8.
 
Guess you haven't seen much of the world? In it's ongoing new form it's -- if not "nice" (that's subjective, as is all of this nonsense) -- perfectly fine and inoffensive.

Top-10 ugliest building in the world?!?!? Hyperbole is your jam, I take it.
 
chrisbrat said:
Guess you haven't seen much of the world? In it's ongoing new form it's -- if not "nice" (that's subjective, as is all of this nonsense) -- perfectly fine and inoffensive.

Top-10 ugliest building in the world?!?!? Hyperbole is your jam, I take it.
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I believe he/she is saying it's now a 7-8 on a scale of 1 to 10. So, greatly improved.
 
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