The Ropewalk | 5th Street | Charlestown Navy Yard

Great building (I second the love shown to granite block facades) that I'm glad to see preserved. That said, this projects suffers from two handicaps: location and unit configuration. Rte 1 looming overhead and 4-lane Chelsea Street just beyond an iron fence? I can feel the exhaust-induced headaches now. Secondly, original unit configuration planned for 35 3-bedrooms but 34 were axed when the windows proved too small for bedroom codes. So we're left with one actual family-sized unit and a bunch of single professional and flat-share units, which the city has in increasing abundance. Why not just make it offices, or innovation space, or whatever they call it now?
 
So none of this work is opening up the Chelsea St wall at all?
 
BSA member firms present design ideas for a community space within the historic Ropewalk Building at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

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Chain Forge was still in use when I toured it as part of my Navy ROTC at MIT in the early 70's -- fantastic Industrial Revolution Era building and the equipment inside -- hope some of it gets preserved

Not everywhere you can see how an anchor chain for a 100 kton Nuclear Aircraft Carrier is forged

by Big Barney
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and then sample links were tested to breaking by pulling with about 1 M kg of force in the Tinius Olsen Testing Machine

40 to 50 year old "Boston Chain" is still being reused on new ships
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The Tobin Bridge would blend in so much better if it were painted a dark charcoal grey. The green is just too expressway-like and doesn't go with anything in the area at all.
 
I thought it had to do with wartime green paint but interestingly enough, green is by design / preference from the 1930s according to a couple articles regarding bridges The last time the Tobin was painted (the central portion anyway) was around 2014 so it looks like we are stuck with green for a while.
 
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