What building would you nominate for replacement

[goldenretrievers]

2 for 1
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Back+Bay,+Boston,+MA/@42.3530689,-71.0834164,3a,75y,157.02h,124.74t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDuFIcNcVxNhVXVxvMeFf1A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DDuFIcNcVxNhVXVxvMeFf1A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D244.28726%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37a0ef815f5b1:0xbca3cc92599b5bc4!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Back+Bay,+Boston,+MA/@42.3547485,-71.0772091,3a,75y,103.48h,118.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-dwoPXXbM1NYfSfjaEPV2A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D-dwoPXXbM1NYfSfjaEPV2A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D69.474739%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37a0ef815f5b1:0xbca3cc92599b5bc4!6m1!1e1

 

[Boston02124]

another nominee

 

[Digital_Islandboy]

another nominee

The old Teradyne building.

 

[JSic]

The 3 landscrapers that look like projects on Columbus Ave in the South End. Can be seen towards the bottom on the photo below. I cringe to think what was torn down to build them.

EDIT: I guess there's also a fourth across the street.

 

[Beton Brut]

2 for 1

Both buildings are very easy to hate -- they're out of scale, and compared to their neighbors, utterly devoid of craft.

But the first, built in the late 1950s, has a few Mid-Century gestures that would be better to see refreshed than obliterated. The chevron-shaped balconies and the windows would be better re-glazed - I wonder how much the homeowners' assessment would be for that job...

All I can offer in (very half-hearted) defense of the second Beacon Street "tower" is that it's built using far better materials than anything we'd slap together today...

The 3 landscrapers that look like projects on Columbus Ave in the South End. Can be seen towards the bottom on the photo below. I cringe to think what was torn down to build them.

EDIT: I guess there's also a fourth across the street.

Ye Olde Methunion Manor. Four brick file-cabinets for lower income families. I recall ablarc comparing them to hooded Klansmen, looming over the block.

 

[tysmith95]

The Zinc apartment building in Cambridge. I know this is new but I think that it looks horrible. I believe that it will look even worse as it ages. They really should have done something different with the facade. It looks like a ugly factory or office building not a residential building.

 

[JumboBuc]

These guys:

and this one:

 

[hockey92]

The Zinc apartment building in Cambridge. I know this is new but I think that it looks horrible. I believe that it will look even worse as it ages. They really should have done something different with the facade. It looks like a ugly factory or office building not a residential building.

I'm not sure but hopefully once NorthPoint is fully built out this building will fall into the shadows and not be as hulking

 

[Mike]

I would pick a building that was taking up a lot of ground space and is in the way something great happening, like the fort point channel postal service building.

 

[Charlie_mta]

That building was absorbed by the Borg.

 

[Boston02124]

These guys:

and this one:

there was a proposal yrs ago for a 14 story building for this site

 

[akmags]

This:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3166645,-71.094414,438a,20y,41.6t/data=!3m1!1e3

and this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.351...4!1s9efspPueYvhgBcJAylxyhA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[odurandina]

380'!!

Downtown Fort Worth after the tornado was pretty rough.

Drove by a few times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79sJ1bMR6VQ