Mixed Use Complex | 345 Harrison Ave | South End

[jass]

I like it

 

[cca]

Ill say that it is solidly good urban-ism ... ok architecture, and on balance on can call this legitimately good. Not great, but good.

cca

 

[Beton Brut]

Ill say that it is solidly good urban-ism

I'll grudgingly agree. It's a good result from a city-sponsored design imperative (from Kairos Shen's reign of incompetence) that we'd do well to migrate away from going forward.

ok architecture, and on balance on can call this legitimately good. Not great, but good.

There are some design gestures here that I like, and others I could do without. I'll never get used to seeing them forced into juxtaposition. I've compared this practice to an extortion letter; here's an example composed by a competent writer.

 

[cadetcarl]

I think it's bad in the way that you can't make an album out of all singles. I'm also on record as not liking many of the individual things being tried here, but smashing them all together does not help at all. The architecture is mostly trash.

I agree that it's good urbanism, if we limit the scope of the term to massing, density, and appropriateness of use.

 

[atlantaden]

One of my favorite developments yet! Lovin the angles, the pass throughs, the various colors and textures and design elements, the glass, the nooks and crannies, the lighting, everything. Something new and different to see around every corner.

 

[tobyjug]

Respectfully dissent. Reboot of the State Transportation Building.

 

[Beton Brut]

^ An apt comparison, given the scale.

 

[odurandina]

It's slightly extravagant. Could pass for a shopping mall in Ontario, CA, but falls far short of how egregious it could have been. NO RETARDED alternating window floors, 90 degree cantilevered puke windows, ridiculously proportioned balconies or setbacks.

raised the bar via eminence of absence.....

 

[stevebikes]

Friday at lunchtime. A couple of people were eating their Sweetgreen salads here.

 

[Justin7]

^ I think I've been spoiled by the common use of pavers lately. The ground here looks awful.

 

[atlantaden]

Real nice pics of a great project. Thanks.