Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District
I agree but some places are using too much blue... China. Were nowhere near critical mass yet for blue glass, we actually could use more, but it seems once cities start they run way with it (Toronto). So we have plenty of room to go but we just need to be careful. Now that being said something is happening in New York that I believe is going to send shock waves throughout the entire architectural world. In the last 10 but especially 5 years it seems like they have made a breakthrough on the level of when art deco was able to be applied to high rises. We've had all these materials available, but something happened where all of the different pieces that have been being used already have now finally come together to enter into a new golden age with the potential to be the greatest architectural era of all time. You would imagine that things always get better with time but thats not the reality. Suddenly recently though we are back into a modern golden age.
The pulse of the architectural world is yet again going though NYC and once again it has taken the lead with new styles/combinations of glass, materials, shapes...etc that aren't even named yet (that I know of), but are setting up perfectly to roll us right into the greatest architectural age of all time. Things like 111 west 57th st. being built on top of Steinway hall with like an art deco/greek classical base that fades into some yet to be named incredible tower with the highest aspect ratio in the world of 1:23 is earth shattering. This is a mind blowing tower and theres a lot more where this came from.
There are too many to list since this thread is not about this tower so sorry to sort of go off topic but Im just showing that even without NYC height the way materials are now being used is one way that Boston is going to be able to keep building great towers. Look at the amount of not only potential but results that architecture has and is using now.
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With 115 fed this is one of the more dynamic facades in the city on a glass high rise. It no longer has the opening/swaying curtain effect of the past tower massing, but we get pinstripes now, and there is a rippled facade nonetheless. To me its pretty badass (as long as you don't immediately compare it to steinway tower lol sorry). Plus the way the crown is notched at the top looks like..... a crown. What better way to put a crown on the downtown skyline than with..... a crown? Perfect. Another check in the badass category. They also removed the balconies from the main tower which is win because it cleans up the facade a lot. Finally that hint of yellow/gold between the notches in the crown I think is a great finishing touch. This is going to look great.
Two tone facade, notches crown, gold accents, the face is not flat its ribbed with many small triangles.
We have new twin peaks, this time theyre downtown
AAAAAND FINALLY we have a LIT CROWN over downtown. If the story had ended at MT it would have been a sad turn of events, but instead we get an architectural crown over downtown and its lit up baby!! W for Boston.
Edit: Once I finished posting these above I scrolled down and literally laughed out loud by accident once I got to this tower. Its jarring the different levels to this *ish these days. Woo sah woo sah stay humble stay humble....