MXD Residential Tower | 121 Broadway | Kendall Square

RandomWalk said:
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^Very cool how in the basement of the 121 Broadway tower, per your photo (at left), we can see the 4x power conduit raceways for the underground substation, as shown here:

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^From: https://www.eversource.com/content/...tts-projects/greater-cambridge-energy-project
 
FK4 said:
Arrrg, Cambridge skyline would look so much better with a couple tall skinnies, those stumps are brutal.
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For real, how places like Mississauga have more interesting skylines than one will always baffle me.
 
goody said:
For real, how places like Mississauga have more interesting skylines than one will always baffle me.
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you capture the crucial part actually which is “interesting” not height. I think the main issue is that from afar most of these buildings are squat which fairly screams “office park”. A couple buildings more graceful or interesting would make a difference just as much as come height would. The Green Building remains the best thing across the river, in my opinion.
 
I dunno. Lab buildings pay the rent and those are always going to be stubby stumps.

However, if this building is a success, I see a future where there are a few 400 and 500-foot residential buildings in Kendall (and parts of Somerville and maybe Everett) as space is at a premium, prices for residential are wild in Boston/Cambridge, etc., and 5 over 1 will not provide a feasible ROI in Kendall.

Look at Newport or even Journal Square in Jersey City. Living in JC was a joke and seen as a mark of failure (bro, you can't afford to live in the city?), now there are a lot of tall buildings, all residential and it is a place where people live and shlep across the river no problem now.
 
Czervik.Construction said:
I dunno. Lab buildings pay the rent and those are always going to be stubby stumps.

However, if this building is a success, I see a future where there are a few 400 and 500-foot residential buildings in Kendall (and parts of Somerville and maybe Everett) as space is at a premium, prices for residential are wild in Boston/Cambridge, etc., and 5 over 1 will not provide a feasible ROI in Kendall.

Look at Newport or even Journal Square in Jersey City. Living in JC was a joke and seen as a mark of failure (bro, you can't afford to live in the city?), now there are a lot of tall buildings, all residential and it is a place where people live and shlep across the river no problem now.
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This is true. Even journal sq. is becoming iconic imo.

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The cities embracing polycentrism are going to be in good shape for the future. Nyc will be its best version with many different cores in each neighborhood and the radial IBX line, compared to how nyc used to essentially just be an American city but on steroids where everything still funnelled downtown. Boston is also embracing polycentrism (no radial line coming any time soon tho) and this is going to be a much better version of Boston where ppl who live in dorchester can work at dorchester bay city, ppl who live in eastie can work at suffolk downs, and on and on.
 
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Czervik.Construction said:
I dunno. Lab buildings pay the rent and those are always going to be stubby stumps.

However, if this building is a success, I see a future where there are a few 400 and 500-foot residential buildings in Kendall (and parts of Somerville and maybe Everett) as space is at a premium, prices for residential are wild in Boston/Cambridge, etc., and 5 over 1 will not provide a feasible ROI in Kendall.

Look at Newport or even Journal Square in Jersey City. Living in JC was a joke and seen as a mark of failure (bro, you can't afford to live in the city?), now there are a lot of tall buildings, all residential and it is a place where people live and shlep across the river no problem now.
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I think the Kendall skyline ought to look fairly decent after the full Volpe buildout in ~10yrs or so! Would love to see some more height in CX as well but doesn't seem to be in the cards.
 
The glass looks good with the metal accenting. Id love to see much more of this with blue glass facades. Hopefully this is the next evolution.
 
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