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#bancars · Dec 11, 2022

12.11.22

Dr. Rosen Rosen · Dec 11, 2022

Vassar St is definitely a corridor.

Dr. Rosen Rosen · Dec 12, 2022

I never really noticed that there’s an ‘extra’ section of glass that just extends beyond the side wall. I believe it happens on both sides (and maybe the central entry setback. What’s up with this? Purely aesthetic? Make it look more like planes of glass and not a glass box?

rjacobs · Dec 13, 2022

Dr. Rosen Rosen said:
I never really noticed that there’s an ‘extra’ section of glass that just extends beyond the side wall. I believe it happens on both sides (and maybe the central entry setback. What’s up with this? Purely aesthetic? Make it look more like planes of glass and not a glass box?

Pretty sure the endgame is to depopulate Cambridge of its nefarious bird population.

mdd · Dec 13, 2022

They ordered too much curtainwall and said "F-it, throw it up there"

RandomWalk · Dec 13, 2022

It’s called thinking outside the glass box.

JeffDowntown · Dec 13, 2022

mdd said:
They ordered too much curtainwall and said "F-it, throw it up there"

Actually the façade supplier had an "arrangement" with the developer.

You say you need 80,000 sq. ft.? Whatta ya say we round that up to an even 100 thou, and you throw that into the bid.

Blackbird · Dec 13, 2022

RandomWalk said:
It’s called thinking outside the box.

I’m like 90% convinced now that this is exactly what they were going for!

DZH22 · Dec 13, 2022

stefal said:
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I'm bringing the renders onto this page as it does show the glass extending beyond the outer walls. I'm not sure if this was really caught by most/any of us in the renders, the way it's being caught now that we see the real life product. Originally found in Post 46.

bigpicture7 · Dec 19, 2022

RandomWalk said:
It’s called thinking outside the glass box.

And thinking upside the box, apparently (today, 12/19):

bigpicture7 · Jan 13, 2023

Tower crane coming down today (1/13):

bigpicture7 · Jan 16, 2023

View with tower crane gone:

goody · Jan 16, 2023

Its cool, but I feel like they are missing the hat trick with the glass on the recessed part in the middle. Maybe there is still film on it but that greenish color isn't my favor and it is also just a little too much glass... would have been nice to have a contrasting texture. Still a small quibble, I think its pretty cool!