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@brutalboston
Why do you like sad looking buildings ?
XD Idk if concrete is sad, it just exists. sometimes exhilarating, or hulking or unobtrusive. I like to think that although it cures into a solid, it maintains a fluidity reflective of the environment it finds itself in. Whether that means scaling, stains, or any of the countless variations of aging
Moving on
Hi folks! Just want to say thanks to everyone who hearted/reblogged/commented/followed the posts here on Brutal Boston! There were a lot of new names & many familiar ones as well. Though I have many more images, I feel I’ve reached as good a stopping point & it’s time to move on to something else.
Thanks in no particular order to: @scavengedluxury @paulrosenstein @architectureofdoom @dremecreme @neito @fishmech @cement-light @germanpostwarmodern
The former Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, now a Walgreens. Boston, 2019
Countway Library of Medicine,Designed by Hugh Stubbins and associates. Boston, 2019
Countway Library of Medicine,Designed by Hugh Stubbins and associates. Boston, 2019
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, 2019
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, 2019
Boston Architectural College, 2019.
It’s telling when a building in the Brutalist style has has one of its sides painted with a mural featuring classical architecture.
Boston Architectural College, 2019.
right on Newbury, it’s a location hard to beat.
Parking Garage, Boston, 2019
Boston Medical Center Doctors Building & Parking Garage, Boston, 2019
Boston Medical Center Doctors Building & Parking Garage, Boston, 2019
Boston Medical Center Doctors Building & Parking Garage, Boston, 2019
More process experiments
Past, present & future sharing a frame. Health & Human Services Building, Boston, MA, US
If it were ever possible for a neighborhood to demand an apology, we owe the West End of Boston a deep apology.
Now that I’m awake and feeling smarter, I’d like to expand on this.
If you say the West End today, even the most Bostony Bostonian would have to take a second to remember you’re talking about Government Center and the area around there. That’s not to say it’s not thought of or marked on maps (there’s even a plaque commemorating the old neighborhood; predictably Boston, there’s a coffeehouse nearby), or that nothing important happened there (the historic Quincy Market is part of that neighborhood, as is a plaque commemorating the now-famous “Come here, Watson, I need you” phone call that made Alexander Graham Bell a household name).
The neighborhood, at the time, was typical “working poor” Boston, row after row of brownstone tenements, of which only 42 Lomasney is left, known now as alternately The Last Tenement, 42 Lowell (the original name of the street), or “That weird-ass house near the Garden that I think a mobster used to live in”.
A very long, complicated story short, the neighborhood, in the 50s, was declared blighted. Some say it might’ve been; the neighborhood had it’s population drop in the last few years of it’s existence, leaving many abandoned buildings, and was close enough to the old Combat Zone that spillover could happen. Others say it was political; Hynes had a vendetta against the neighborhood that supported a rival candidate for mayor and was going to take it out on them come hell or high water. There are also race (the neighborhood was traditionally Italian and Jewish) and classist (the buildings that replaced the high-density tenements were expensive high-rises in a particularly convenient part of the town for those with money) explanations as well. The result was the same, however, and a huge part of historic old Boston was ripped up, with the buildings destroyed being replaced by some of the ugliest and most poorly designed buildings in Boston (I don’t remember if it’s the new City Hall or the new Courthouse there, but for one of the buildings, you have to go outside to go from one side of the building to the other).
It’s a travesty it happened, and likely strengthened the resistance to the Southwest corridor and a lot of future “urban renewal” style projects in Boston.
I wish I could write like this after I wake up! this commentary is fantastic, thank you @neito
pretty much what I’d expect a biomedical research facility to look like. BAV Genetics, Boston, MA.
Boston University Medical Center, designed by Desmond and Lord, Boston, Winter 2019
Boston University Medical Center, designed by Desmond and Lord, Boston, 2019
trying to do some old school looks, practice for an upcoming series.
