“Preliminary design proposals for Apple Computer’s first Boston store got a cool reception last night from the Back Bay Architectural Commission, but several commissioners said a revised design might address their concerns,” Chris Reidy reports for The Boston Globe. “Apple hopes to demolish a small building at 815 Boylston St., which is occupied by a Copy Cop store at street level, and build a flagship store across from the Prudential Center. Projects involving the demolition of an existing building in the Back Bay Architectural District generally require the commission’s approval. Apple has not formally presented any designs yet to the city.”
“The site where Apple wants to build is between 855 Boylston and 801 Boylston, where two previous demolitions have taken place,” Reidy reports. “Apple’s team noted that the building occupied by Copy Cop was built in 1906 and renovated many times. According to Apple, the building has little architectural significance.”
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Copy Cop is so beautiful!
I actually can’t remember what it looks like above Copy Copy, but Boston is very reticent to change anything. Hope it goes into that location.
RAZE IT ALL!!
Apple is the evil real estate investment company and we are all part of Church of RAZED Buildings led by the most high REVEREND STEVE “DEMO” JOBS and Co.
I’ll think I’ll send his kids a small bulldozer for the Holidays.
wasn’t Ernest T. Bass from “back bay boston?”
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I live in a Historic District in Texas and I for one do not support the idea that ALL old buildings are historically siginificant. Many of the homes in my neighborhood are old, but beause they have been renovated and added onto in non-historic ways, they have lost their “historic” character and now are just “old” homes that don’t really fit in the neighborhood. Our Landmarks Commission then requires that new construction be in keeping with historic preservation guidelines when updating or razing these “old” (not “historic”) homes.
In the same way, I hope that Apple is allowed to build a new building but in a character in keeping with the Boston district. It is totalyl possible, as anyone who has visited Apple’s Flagship SOHO story in New York can attest.
they did a damn fine job of regent street in london. they were certainly not going to get planning permission to demolish there, so they demonstrated they have the expertise to take an existing, traditional building and make a flagship apple store inside.
MW : reason – sometimes there’s a good reason to keep something
I love MacDude
how do you do mrs. wiley
First things first. Raze Ted Kennedy and John Kerry first.
The whole area, Boston and suburbs are so stagnet and stuck in the history of the area, they’re afraid to change anything. Move into the new century.
They think everything around here needs to be brownstones.
I bet an Apple store would work quite well on Boylston.
Historical society’s won’t allow Steve to demolish a house on his property and now they may not allow him to raze copt cop, where are the priotities?
Go Yankees!
I just looked at it on Google Earth & don’t see what all of the fuss is about.
idon’t… if the mass senators offend you, maybe you’d be happy farther away, near a levee maybe.
too funny, mw: george
relocation,
Did it! I now live in the Republic of Texas. Its like a whole nuther country. And BBQ beats baked beans any day of the week. Yeeee Haaaaaaaaaa!!!
MW=place. Damn how does it do that?
Why do trees mock me?
this isn’t good … now our villiage needs a new idiot
Right on iDon’t. Raze Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. Complete scum those two.
Can I be that idiot?
back on topic….
Living in CO where identical tract homes are being erected as fast as possible, there is something to be said about keeping an older building if only for variety. Boulder, CO has lots of nice old homes which should be kept and some older homes that should be put out of their misery. The variety is better than the uniform subdivision.
Having said that, I believe Apple has done a great job of integrating their stores into the various neighborhoods that they have built in.
Therefore, raze the sucker
Mark for Prez 2016.
First we had The Steve wanting to level his historic residential home in California, and now this … what’s Jobs’ problem??? Boston is more history conscious than any big city in America. This should have been seen coming from a mile away. Plus, there are probably a dozen sites in Boston where there really ARE ‘historically insignificant’ building she could raze or renovate to his hearts content. Why doesn’t he just go find them?
Just tell them that Apple is not going to put a wind farm on the room and you might get Kennedy’s support.
deedubya,
Move out if you don’t like it. You wonder why Boston likes to hold on to some of it’s old charm? Just look at the Saultenstall Building, the Pru, Government Center, Boston City Hall, etc.
All examples of horrid architecture. I could name more.
The Back Bay and other area make it for Boston. The brownstones are quite nice (and expensive…).
Let’s see what Apple proposes before rendering an opinion.
Odyssey67 “Plus, there are probably a dozen sites in Boston where there really ARE ‘historically insignificant’ building she could raze or renovate to his hearts content. Why doesn’t he just go find them?”
Sounds Like he already did; across from the Pru, CopyCop building, built in ’06, hardly a historically significant piece of architecture, but I bet that the proposal to the Back Bay commission will include significant appeasements that will benefit the location.