The Bryant - 301-319 Columbus Avenue

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Shame it was cloudy

I bet you were hoping today was a sunny day, so you could take all your photos.

Thanks for them.

Question for anyone: I've always wondered, what are those cylinders going across the length of the building (seen in the most recent Apple building photo)? What do they put inside them - electrical? Water? Sewerage? Are they for support?

I can't figure it out.
 
eh..i dont love it. but it doesnt suck. just something wrong about it. looks like they took one of the buildings and punched it the lip, and now its all swollen and puffy and irregularly cut up.
 
Re: Shame it was cloudy

JimboJones said:
I bet you were hoping today was a sunny day
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Nah, I've always enjoyed taking pictures under different conditions (grey skies especially at this time of year makes the greenery come to life), but I've become quite unfazed to what it's doing out now that I work an "outdoors" job. As long as it's not raining cats and dogs with 40 mph winds I don't really care anymore.
 
Jimbo - yes, for support. They are bracing the wall, since there is tremendous pressure from the earth desiring to cave into an area where there is no more earth. They will be removed when strucutre is completed below grade.
 
A crane has finally been erected at the Bryant.

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Is that building in the foreground with the faux mansard roof new? It's terrible but awesome at the same time. I say awesome because it makes the mansard work when so many post-modern buildings make a mansard look like a hat with holes in it.
 
man, what a piece of junk that is. it looks like a newton or wellesley elementary school.

what's more likely: that there will be born a boy who can swim faster than a shark, or that massachusetts will learn it doesn't have to repeat the architecture of colonial america ad infinitum to create a pleasant place to live and that the thoughtful construction of modern buildings along with (and without destroying) the oldies makes for a richer, more honest and interesting street tapestry?
 
My god, 131 Dartmouth or whatever is such a whale of a building.
 
vanshnookenraggen said:
Is that building in the foreground with the faux mansard roof new? It's terrible but awesome at the same time. I say awesome because it makes the mansard work when so many post-modern buildings make a mansard look like a hat with holes in it.
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It appears to be an early 20th C. building with a two-story addition from the late 20th. C.
 
czsz said:
My god, 131 Dartmouth or whatever is such a whale of a building.
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I couldn't agree more. The frontage on Dartmouth is fine, but it is one of the worst buildings when viewed with the skyline.

And there was not NIMBY oposition because it isn't that tall, but there should have been.
 
131 Dartmouth is one of the few short, wide buildings (we have more than our share of those) that I like. It looks like a cruise ship.
 
JSic said:
131 Dartmouth is one of the few short, wide buildings (we have more than our share of those) that I like. It looks like a cruise ship.
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i'll vote for that -- 131 is Ok in my book.

there are a fair number of wide-bodies that are not bad. the Park Sq. bldg. is one that is nearby; also the Newbry.
 
Cruise ship is a very apt description. Its proportions are by no means perfect, but I like it. Plus, the brickwork looks pretty decent.
 
Padre Mike said:
It appears to be an early 20th C. building with a two-story addition from the late 20th. C.
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It's the Electric Carriage House, 321 Columbus Ave. Haven't been able to track down any details on it other than tenants' web sites where they claim the building a "landmark" in the South End. (The address doesn't show up on MACRIS, the online state inventory of historic places, but that isn't always complete.)
 
singbat said:
i'll vote for that -- 131 is Ok in my book.

there are a fair number of wide-bodies that are not bad. the Park Sq. bldg. is one that is nearby; also the Newbry.
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From a tenant point of view, the Park Square Building is incredibly inefficient. The shape is wasteful as the amount of space needed for internal access is staggering. As a tenant, you get stuck paying for alot of area you can't use. Spent 10 years doing just that! No more no more...
 
Re: the Carriage House - the tenants said that because they didn't want 131 Dartmouth built, and were doing anything they could to protect their views.

A definite example of "I've got mine, f-you!"
 
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