One Canal (formerly Greenway Center) | Bullfinch Triangle | West End

Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

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Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

I walked past this on Saturday night for the first time since it is up. First and only impression:

This puppy is huge.
 
Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

Truly snail's pace on this one...
 
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I zoomed in on the cladding. Wish I hadn't.

Wow, I zoomed in also. Those panels do look extremely dreary, as do the mobile home quality windows.

Hopefully we'll all be surprised with the finished product, but for now...ughhh!
 
Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

I think the unfortunate truth is that they developer had to spend so much on engineering the building over the subway and vent below that they cut back on the facade. I pray that it's just this side, the back end, that they went cheap on and the front facing side has a bit more charm.
 
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Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

In the last KZ photo, is that a sign that something is about to start on the Merano site?
 
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Perhaps? I assumed it was staging for One Canal and didn't pay it any more attention, but you very well may be right.
 
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hmmm ^
 
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That last photo makes it look like a decrepit mid-century apartment block looming over the older, and more finely detailed buildings on Canal St.
 
Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

Definitely a low point in architecture for this city. Should get the Fugly award of the year.
 
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Decades from now this will be considered a crime as hefty as
Government Center.
 
Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

Start the clock now. I'm putting the over/under for the inevitable "it's not as bad as I thought, actually, I like it" at five weeks.
 
Re: One Canal (formerly Greenway Center, Bullfinch Triangle)

Yes i think the front of it is going to be fine
 
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Decades from now this will be considered a crime as hefty as
Government Center.

It looks like a slightly more ordinary version of Hayward Place. It's fine. A little bit of a missed opportunity to do something spectacular on that very visible face, but they had a lot of constraints.
 

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