Father Pitt

Why should the beautiful die?


Frank H. Mazza Pavilion, Brookline

Frank H. Mazza Pavilion

The challenge: take a 1970s Brutalist retirement home that seemed to interrupt the neighborhood streetscape of Brookline Boulevard and re-imagine it as something bright and welcoming that would fit with the little one-off shops that make up the rest of the Boulevard. Rothschild Doyno Collaborative responded in 2011 with this design, whose muted but varied colors, large windows, and human-scaled ground floor seem at home on the street, whereas the previous incarnation of the building seemed to loom menacingly.

Mazza Pavilion
Perspective view
Olympus E-20N; Nikon COOLPIX P100.


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