Whittier Choice Neighborhood | 1158 Tremont Street | Roxbury

Yes, it's a bad picture but I was so glad to the stigma of old housing erased from this prominent site! I hope the next Phase gets started soon.

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This is definitely better, especially with the urban form, but the materials and architectural details leave much to be desired.
 
Its fine for affordable housing but I think instead of doing the random colossal order pattern on the red part of the facade it would have looked a lot better to just keep it the same as the pattern on the tan part.

Theres no need to make some wacky pattern on every single low rise facade, especially a background building like this. In this case less would have been more imo.
 
stick n move said:
Phase 3 will at least add to the tremont st street wall, which is good. Though the facade appears very mediocre hopefully it will come across better in person.

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With the crescent parcel next door (which may have been funded), Tremont will look a lot better. Of course, it'd be even better if the city could get it's act together on the Northeastern dorm proposal and P3...
 
curcuas said:
With the crescent parcel next door (which may have been funded), Tremont will look a lot better. Of course, it'd be even better if the city could get it's act together on the Northeastern dorm proposal and P3...
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I am not sure what is happening to that new Northeastern project. Now that the university has a long term lease on the entire tower 2 of the old Sheraton Boston (39 Dalton) they may be rethinking the whole project. Maybe more academic space, less housing?
 
goody said:
Looks like Nichiha which is actually more expensive than you'd think. IMO, taste and arch details matter more than material cost.
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"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap." -Dolly Parton
 
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