Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Van Ness) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

[mcus29]

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Live cam and some different angles on renderings in the image gallery.

http://www.samuelsre.com/pages/308_1325_boylston_street.cfm

 

[brucepf]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

^
Thanks for link, it also includes a great aerial.

 

[kz1000ps]

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[datadyne007]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Wow, the massing of this is really looking great. The separate towers rising from the podium creates a unique & dynamic aesthetic for the area.

 

[tmac9wr]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

In five years this neighborhood is going to be freaking sweet. Any word on when the BK Tower is going to get started?

By the next census, this may be one of the densest neighborhoods in the city.

 

[kz1000ps]

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[atlantaden]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Loving the curves! These two are gonna be very sexy!

 

[BostonUrbEx]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Why does it look like there's a net/fence to keep people from jumping off the roof? In case materials or workers fall? Never seen this before. Hard to tell just what it is with the night shot.

 

[Suffolk 83]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Yea I assuming its to catch Anything that otherwise would fall to the street. The radian had it during construction. Probably only necessary when a project is directly on the street and they don't want to put up scaffolding over the sidewalk like we've seen at projects in Cambridge (forget an exact example)

 

[kz1000ps]

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[kz1000ps]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

More randoms from the holiday weekend, starting with a drive by shooting:

Now up on Mission Hill:

And over to Fort Hill Park in Roxbury:

 

[kz1000ps]

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[kz1000ps]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

From the webcam on this rainy day:

 

[tmac9wr]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Damn, this building is BIG

 

[HenryAlan]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Damn, this building is BIG

I've been thinking that about most of the Fenway construction. Huge, thick, land scraping buildings. And yet they mostly look awesome both as free standing structures and with neighborhood context. Why does it work so well here, but so poorly at the Seaport?

 

[datadyne007]

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I've been thinking that about most of the Fenway construction. Huge, thick, land scraping buildings. And yet they mostly look awesome both as free standing structures and with neighborhood context. Why does it work so well here, but so poorly at the Seaport?

The Fenway has a dense urban fabric (and is also a historically established neighborhood). The Seaport does not. Context is key.

 

[tmac9wr]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

^^ yea that's the main difference. When we start seeing buildings pop up closer to the established area of the Seaport (Fort Point), I'm sure we'll like those more.

 

[timsox6]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I think many of these buildings, though big, are also made up of a variety of materials, making them appear like a few buildings meshed together (the changes in height also help). The Seaport seems to get lots of buildings that are made of just one exterior and one height, and that height is the same as all the buildings around them.

 

[tmac9wr]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I think many of these buildings, though big, are also made up of a variety of materials, making them appear like a few buildings meshed together (the changes in height also help). The Seaport seems to get lots of buildings that are made of just one exterior and one height, and that height is the same as all the buildings around them.

True, but that too has to do with the urban fabric. If these "meshed buildings" were surrounded by parking lots vs other buildings they'd still stick out just as much as those Seaport buildings do.

 

[CSTH]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

The Fenway has a dense urban fabric (and is also a historically established neighborhood). The Seaport does not. Context is key.

This is important. The hierarchy of streets in the Fenway is clearly established - You have these behemoths on the major avenue (Boylston) and then an increasingly-fine mesh of side streets flowing from there, with more finely grained buildings on them.

In the seaport you have highway ramps, 4 lane boulevards, and alleyways for dumpsters and loading docks. And the huge buildings are surrounded by various permutations of these. No variance in scale, no grain - no district-level integration.

i.e. how far from Boylston West do you have to walk to find yourself on a 'quiet side steet'? (or from One Canal or the Victor, for that matter?) How far, by contrast, from one Marina Park Drive?