Faced With Impossible Lot, Boston Architect Gets Creative In Bay Village

138 Arlington Street is a tiny patch of leftover land, squeezed between two streets. Now, a developer is trying to build a house there. 

WBZ's Chaiel Schaffel reports. For more, ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It doesn't look like real estate, more like something you'd
thinly shave on top of real estate. Is a tasteful garnish.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the smallest site that we've ever worked on,
So the entire footprint of one P thirty eight Arlington
Street is a mere three hundred and fifty square feet.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
In a long trapezoid shape. That meant architect Anthony Pizzani
had to think outside the blueprint to design the home
planned on this spot.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
We call this scheme f so it took a while
to understand it.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
In other words, they had to get through plans A
through E till they arrived here. The concept he settled
on as the spirit of a medieval mage's tower squeezed
into the body of a Bay village townhouse.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The idea camsimply from the constraints of the site.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
A spiral staircase will run up the whole thing, splitting
off at each level for bedrooms and bathrooms. Ownership hopes
the project won't cost more than a million dollars. Kyle
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