Nubian Ascends (Blair Lot) | 2164 Washington | Roxbury

[cburns]

Those brick rowhouses are already there.

Hurray for keeping them, then?

 

[chumbolly]

Absolutely critical that the main building maintains the depth of its façade. That will make or break the woven effect it's going for.

Here's one tweak that I think would look cool: have the glass at the building corners be curved to give the effect of a round glass shape inside a squared off basket, with space between the basket weave and the glass at the corners. Maybe even have a bow in the glass wall from the top of building to the bottom to make the glass core look semi-spherical. The point being, make the basket seem more like a woven vessel and less like a textured curtain wall. But that probably adds Gehry-level complications.