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Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building)
Between this, Nashua St. Residences, Congress St Garage, the two properties infront of the Garden, and Don's Garage proposal, Boston will have noticable additions to its skyline when driving in from the north. Granted who knows when any of these will get built.
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Noticable additions to the skyline yes, but most likely cheap crap like this recent proposal. The reason isn't even that developers are being cheap - I think it goes a lot further than that to a collossal failure of planning that made the North Station area a (luxury) bedroom community of South Station. Nobody expects anything unique to go up here, so nothing unique will ever be proposed.
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The Cook and Fox Congress st. garage proposal was pretty unique, but that never had a chance in this economy.
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^ That's true. I meant more specifically the area immediately around Causeway and CRP.
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Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building)
Another fine design from Boss Menino, AIA. You can't blame Equity or the architect for doing what is ordered.
Look at the renderings again, chop off 7 stories, fatten each tower up a little, cheapen down the materials, and there you have it: Architecture in Boston in 2010. Garbage. As the city wishes. |
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Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building)
What am i missing?
I don't see the horribleness of this project... it integrates, adds street life, gets rid of a garage, and creates a link to a multi-use path. Sure i would like to see it probably a little taller, and if i was designing i would add more ground floor retail, but i just don't see the devastating design that everyone else sees. |
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Turning these into proper streets would help overcome the superblock effect of CRP. |
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These towers are fine theyll just blend in anyways, the real problem with this area is the street layout. There is no worse place in boston or really any other city in america than this area's street layout. They criss cross loop around go diagonal in some spots there are no signs whatsoever so its easy to go around a corner that you cant see around and end up with concrete walls on both sides of you forcing you to get onto the pike. If they fix the roads this area will be much nicer, I could care less about a 20 story piece of crap going up.
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Some wayfinding signs for pedestrians are definitely needed here. The 'Thoreau Path' through Charles River Park leads directly to a pedestrian bridge over Storrow Drive, and would be used a lot more if people could find it. Right now, West End Place and the Basketball City garage block any direct view of this path from the surrounding streets.
(Why does an iron gate close off West End Place's stairway from public use?) |
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Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building)
My comment wasn't directly about these really slick renderings.
My comment was about the shorter, fatter, uglier stumps that are actually going to get built. Knowing this is the process keeps developers and architects dumb, because they are just stooges in the process. The BRA will design something that is horrible, so it puts developers in a "worst case scenario" mindset instead of a "let's do something awesome" scenario. Personally, I think the renderings are awesome. But we won't get that. |
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I agree with the above. If built per those renderings, this would be great, and 100 times better than any of the other urban renewal "towers" in the "west end". This area is really sad to look at on google maps. If you had twice as many high rises in this area, it would still be too few. This and the Harbor Towers accomplish what shouldn't be able to be accomplished. They take ugly, utilitarian, residential towers, and make them into suburban neighborhoods. Congrats on that anyways.
The corridor opening up between the 2 buildings in the rendering seems to create an actual, inviting, entrance into this part of the city. A part I never go to, but I go past it when I catch a cab over that way. Typically I never get past the Garden, as there really is no reason to. |
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They look like an upgrade from Harbor Towers to what the 21 century Harbor Towers would look like now.
I don't like them. Boston is beginning to look old and non-innovative. |
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beginning to look old??
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I would expect a lot in the neighborhood to approve this project if it includes space for a school. For many in the West End and Beacon Hill that's their number one issue.
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It's moving forward...
From the BRA... http://bostonredevelopmentauthorityn...en-garage.html Quote:
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Looks like Elkus-Manfredi, fresh off their "triumph" with Fan Pier, dusted off the design, stretched it and, voila!, the $19.95 special.
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There is some retail space.
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