Someone has a huge chip on his shoulder.
I came across this post about the Macallen Building, a new(ish) condo development in South Boston.
From the Xconomy blog:
A 140-unit luxury condominium complex, the Macallen Building has garnered warm reviews from architecture critics, including no less a figure than Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe writer Robert Campbell. It’s also the first residential building in Boston to win a Gold-level LEED rating, something that can only be achieved through serious effort on the part of architects and developers.
… But there are several aspects of the Macallen project that bother me. One is the unfortunate symbolism in the fact that Boston’s first green residential building is a luxury condo. You have to be doing pretty well, indeed, to afford a one-bedroom, one-bath unit for $600,000 or a three-bedroom for $2.1 million.
… Is it really “sustainable” to use double-flush toilets if you have to bring them all the way from Australia, on container ships that burn huge amounts of diesel fuel? Are bamboo floors still green if you have to bring the wood from China? How much sense is there in using special glues that are free of volatile organic compounds if it means that those bamboo floors buckle and have to be ripped out (and new bamboo ordered from China)?
The author puts a lot on the shoulders of the developer, Pappas Properties. He finds fault with them for building a big building, for charging what the market will bear, and for building something he doesn’t find aesthetically pleasing.
The author’s jealousy comes through loud and clear.
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