New buildings in Boston rarely are contextual and so often take no cues from their surroundings, but Lovejoy Wharf, one of my favorite 21st century buildings in the city breaks that mold. Completed in 2017, the contemporary building is clearly modern, but takes important cues in the design and materials to relate it to the surrounding industrial context surrounding the site. The Lovejoy Wharf condominium building was designed by the great Robert A.M. Stern Architects and incorporates red brick facades, stacked bay windows, and a glass curtain wall, which effortlessly blend old with new. A glass tower breaks free from the masonry mass at its corner, which leads into the denser, more modern West End buildings while the eastern side closely follows the old Schraft’s Candy Factory (now Converse Headquarters building) brick industrial style. Additionally, the developer, Related Beal, took a gamble by not including parking in the facility, hoping the unit owners would instead use local public transportation (or walk), it seems to have been a success and promotes healthy urbanism. What do you all think of this contemporary building?
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Its a lovey design and relates seamlesly to the historic building . However, unless there’s a grocery store rather close to the building, it will be hard on the the little old lady occupants to shlep their milk and applejuice home at the same time as their toilet paper. Also, there are lots of resons for a having a car stashed in the basement, or double basement, like visiting your grandchildren in the wilds of Newton. Just being funny, you know what I mean.
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There is indeed a Star Market the next building over in North Station. I hope the dependency on cars is lessened with the new dense housing near T-stops, but time will tell. Its nice that people have an option now to have a car or not!
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