Best place to discuss architecture
At a spot along Soldiers Field Road in Brighton, two brick buildings stand before you, facing the river. The one to your left uses classic red bricks to speak to the Harvard campus, while modernizing them through strong geometric shapes and large glass windows. The one to your right paints its bricks in random gradations of color and plops them down in rectangular chunks like the excretions of a junk-car wrecking machine. Oddly, the bold updating of the university's architectural theme is Genzyme's manufacturing plant, and the embarrassing crap-brick of a building at One Western was built by Harvard for its students. Discuss.