The Alcott (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

Found this on Reddit:
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They have started to lay dirt for landscaping on top of the garage roof. Some trees were being planted this afternoon. I spied what looked to be a frame on top of the building. May be at tippy top. Was on shuttle going to casino yesterday…and this building makes for a nice presence on the skyline from Broadway in Everett. My luck at the casino was not so nice…as usual. 😢
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Not bad so far, although I'm not a fan of the current fad of mixing up the cladding on a high rise, with one type of cladding wrapped around part of the building, and then another treatment covering the remainder. Something similar was done on the Avalon and didn't succeed in my opinion.
 
I feel like with this building the colossal order doesnt disguise its height or give it weird seeming proportions like so many do, but instead just acts as what it is, a way to add a grid to the facade. The high aspect ratio of the window pairings really accentuate the verticality to counteract the trick colossal order normally plays on your eye. The end result is a pretty nice facade that is honest about its proportions, doesnt have too much glass, and appears to be one of the better buildings of the recent bunch.

Basically although it does have colossal order pairings, instead of being an intentional trick its more an inevitable result of designing a grid pattern for the facade. A grid is inevitably going to cause colossal order if it doesnt hit every floor, but here they did a good job of keeping it honest.
 
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It's because the colossal order for the Alcott is longer height wise and much thinner length wise. You have the opposite effect with the Verizon Building.
 
Charlie_mta said:
Not bad so far, although I'm not a fan of the current fad of mixing up the cladding on a high rise, with one type of cladding wrapped around part of the building, and then another treatment covering the remainder. Something similar was done on the Avalon and didn't succeed in my opinion.
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I think it works here because the glass is used in a way that makes sense - for a lantern corner - and also because the building is clearly designed to play to its view corridors. It presents really well from the Causeway corner (lantern) and from the Charles River Dam (slab side turned to face it head-on). The Nashua is just random.

It feels like only one of the two had an actual architect.

FWIW - I'd tentatively put The Sudbury in the same category. It shouldn't work, but it does, because someone thoughtful considered the angles it would be viewed from and made those look really good.
 
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