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statler
08-22-2007, 06:47 AM
Pretty cool look at all the systems in the 'green' Genzyme building in Cambridge:

A look inside the green, high-tech Genzyme Center (http://news.com.com/2300-11392_3-6203709-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg)
TheBostonBoy
08-22-2007, 11:57 AM
Wow, that is soooo cool. Where exactly is this located? Like what is the address? I never really noticed this building in Cambridge, I don't know how because it looks big and extremely noticeable.
Ron Newman
08-22-2007, 12:10 PM
From the corner of Third and Broadway, go a block or two north on Third and then a block east. Sorry, I don't remember the exact address, and some of the streets over there may be too new to show up on all maps.
TheBostonBoy
08-22-2007, 12:17 PM
Ya, well it is probably easy to see on Google Earth.
czsz
08-22-2007, 01:40 PM
This one gets all the press, but I'm still a greater fan of the Boston Genzyme building's architecture. It's a fantastic evocation of some Gilded Age industrial installation.
Beton Brut
08-22-2007, 03:21 PM
^^ I think I recall ablarc saying it's his least favorite building in all of Boston; I'd love to know why. I don't mind it so much myself.

I really love the Behnisch & Behnisch building. It's the sort of thing Alvar Aalto may have been doing if he were alive today -- both purposeful and humane. This article (http://www.genzyme.com/genzctr/Architecture_Aug2006.pdf) may be of interest.
kennedy
08-22-2007, 08:54 PM
Genzyme isn't the company that has the building right on the Harvard Business School parking lot is it? The brick, sort of modern, sort of traditional brickish gothic one?
briv
08-23-2007, 10:04 PM
This one gets all the press, but I'm still a greater fan of the Boston Genzyme building's architecture. It's a fantastic evocation of some Gilded Age industrial installation.

Are you talking about the post-modern Gothic building off Western Ave or does Genzyme have another building in Boston?
czsz
08-23-2007, 10:21 PM
Indeed, the postmodern one:

http://static.flickr.com/74/211922838_3174cda607_m.jpg
kennedy
08-24-2007, 08:00 PM
^^

I like this one better.
czsz
08-24-2007, 11:34 PM
I noticed a lot of work going on just outside...anyone have any idea what's going on?