DZH -- I think you missed three key elements of what BRA's RFP called for:
- 1) is the location in the heart of the city and it needing to be Tall to peak the skyline in the right place -- hence no need for an out of place 300m at NStation
- 2) the multi use blending of the DTX with the Financial District -- hence the need to have serious mixing of retail, residential and importantly office functions -- not just a smidgen of office
- 3) some seriously iconic public function or public function space
When you combine these RFP Requirements -- TransNational is a the top of the compliance list with the RFP with its 500,000 sq ft of very versatile, very open floor plate office [some of which could be retail / restaurants] along with the 1.4 million sq ft of multi-type residential. and " Entrepreneurship Innovation Center will feature an Innovation Sculpture Park and an Innovators Walk of Fame as well as sponsoring a live speaker series "
------However -- The real outlier on the RFP is HYM with the swap with St. Anthony's Shrine -- moving the tower to a better location and opening up the space currently occupied by the garage and otherwise to be occupied by a tower
No Offence -- But based on the RFP -- I don't think that the form or surface of the building itself will be a major determinant of the eventual winner
Ideally -- it would be a mix and match of elements from all the proposals -- such as
Add Millennium's Great Hall and the Hall of Innovation, perhaps on the site of TransNationals other lot
do the swap with St. Anthony's and put an observation deck and restaurant on top of HYM's tower with an office podium incorporating Wework or some other start-up friendly office space
and make it just a bit over the 725 -- say 800 ft by "buying off the FAA" with a new radar for Logan Approach -- the real reason for the height limit -- its not the 1-engine go-around as such a situation would face a wall at 600 ft along the boundary of the Financial District before a plane could climb to interfere with a 725 or even 800 ft building just beyond