Wentworth Institute of Technology Expansion | Fenway

[found5dollar]

that is kinda ugly.

 

[bdurden]

It's not terrible -- it's just shortsighted if the institute is looking for redevelopment opportunity. Perhaps the most prominent location on campus, you would imagine they'd want to utilize this space to it's fullest potential.

 

[datadyne007]

I highly recommend that anyone passing by the MFA area to stop into the lobby of Wentworth Hall to view all of WIT's new master plan buildings and the revised master plan itself. They have new renderings of the Beatty expansion, the Ira Allen atrium, the new res hall at 525 Huntington Ave, and the new Sweeney Field on Parker St.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...036,-71.094149&spn=0.002407,0.006089&t=h&z=18

 

[TomOfBoston]

If Sweeney Field is to be relocated, what will that site be used for? Could they be considering selling it to.......Northeastern?

 

[datadyne007]

If Sweeney Field is to be relocated, what will that site be used for? Could they be considering selling it to.......Northeastern?

No no no. Never. That site was planned to be developed into an academic building as part of the first IMP, but it has been categorized as "Potential Future Development" in the most recent IMP.

Btw guys, Beatty starts May 16!! Parts will open and close in phases over the next 2 years.

 

[datadyne007]

Hey guys, Beatty and Ira Allen are well underway now!

Beatty (Flannigan Campus Center): Prelim sitework/interior demo. Front stairs are FINALLY being removed next week!!
Beatty Webcam

Ira Allen (Center for Sciences and Biomedical Engineering): Pile driving phase, with the interior completely gutted. Elevator removed.
Ira Allen Webcam

Keep an eye on the Ira Allen job site for these upcoming milestones:

· Pile driving to continue
· Site utilities
· Basement level slab removal
· Interior demolition

Please check our website for updates and additional project information
http://myweb.wit.edu/planning_const/development/Active jobs/Ira Allen.htm

And find us on Facebook to keep in touch as well
http://www.facebook.com/IraAllenProject

 

[datadyne007]

Beatty!! (These should bring a smile to your face, Van!)

Held my phone over the fence, stairs are GONE!!!!:

Front wall of one of the group study rooms in the library has been torn out:

I've always loved the coffered ceilings:

Next one just came down!

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Ha! You know I saw the picture before your comment and I actually did smile .

What are they doing again? It's been so long since I've seen a rendering.

 

[datadyne007]

Ha! You know I saw the picture before your comment and I actually did smile .

What are they doing again? It's been so long since I've seen a rendering.

Glass box on both sides. Renders are on prev pg.

 

[datadyne007]

Ira Allen (Center for Sciences and Biomedical Engineering) is really getting cool now:

Conc. formwork

Steel rebar

3rd fl ductwork

Conc. formwork

Basement slab pour

3rd fl ductwork

Pile cap formwork

Pile cap formwork

Completed pilecaps

 

[cden4]

Why does every building have to look like an Apple Store now? Ugh.

 

[datadyne007]

Also of note is that since Ira Allen and some of Beatty are unable to be used, Wentworth is holding classes in the Greek Orthodox Church on Parker St (2 rooms) and there's also a massive set of portable classrooms on the (Wentworth Hall) Front Lawn. The portables didn't pass inspection the first time, lol.

 

[datadyne007]

Beatty!!! (Flanagan Campus Center)

These were taken by the Dean, Annamaria Wenner. The soft-opening of the ground floor of Flanagan is March 12.

Looking into the fitness center. No more exposed concrete coffers.

New seating area of the new cafeteria.

Badly needed new elevator!

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

I recognize those old bones. Thanks for these.

 

[BeeLine]

Two recent photos of Beatty Hall and one of the Ira Allen Building.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beelinebos/6872817245/in/photostream/

 

[datadyne007]

I recognize those old bones. Thanks for these.

I love that you can still see the brutalist rhythmic and monolithic structural columns in the new forum that once comprised the old facade. They didn't hide them with any perpendicular drywall.

 

[Pierce]

ugh..... sorry, but any architect who exports renderings direct from sketchup can't be trusted to be competent

 

[datadyne007]

Ira Allen/Center for Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
> Taken by BOND Brothers, posted on the Facebook page.

 

[datadyne007]

More Ira Allen:

 

[whighlander]

Ira Allen/Center for Sciences and Biomedical Engineering

> Taken by BOND Brothers, posted on the Facebook page.

Completed pilecaps

Data -- I presume that these 3 pix show the same brick wall?