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The bigger problem...
...than the demolition of the current Arlington Building is its hideous replacement. This is too important a location to build the Route 128 office park piece of crap that is proposed for the site and Cesar Pelli is risking his reputation with this design. It makes the R2D2 building (where Morton's Steak house is) at Exeter and Boylston look like good architecture. The proposed replacement should go back to the drawing board before any demolition permits are issued.
R2D2 Building
Do you mean the Darth Vader Building, or is that a different one?
Darth Vader vs. R2D2
Darth Vader's on Boylston and R2D2, a.k.a. the giant Ban Roll-on, is that thing on Huntinton next to the Pru.
You mean
111 Huntington? Most people I know describe it as a bottle of Astro-Glide or alternately a Thermos.
It could be worse ...
Here is 111 Huntington, which I actually like because it is different and involves no red brick or palladian windows whatsoever. I don't know how the building works on the inside, but I do think it is a good addition to a rather boring skyline (one I can see from my dining room every winter morning).
Compare to The Barcelona Water Department (Torre Agbar) and 30 St. Mary Axe in London, which aren't shy about their male membership or polychromatic sex toy origins.
Whoops...
Freudian slip. I've also heard a building in the Financial District at Summer and High Street described as such.
well
I thought I saw somewhere that the original design for the new building was scrapped after locals complained it was too contemporary/modern. I don't want a bland box either, but people around here are seriously stuck in the past. I read somewhere the other night that people fought against a Renzo Piano-designed Harvard museum building along the Charles back in the late 90's. Figures. God forbid anything ever changes around here.
Yes, that's a nice building
I walked by it the other day and it has lots of nice detail.
Not as appealing as Dainty Dot, but a great "background building" and worth some facadeism or at least a better replacement.