Boston Properties Office Tower | 888 Boylston Street | Back Bay

citylover94 said:
Um no not really at all. Your post is totally out of left field it adds nothing to the thread aside from distracting from the topic and being annoying for anyone who expects to see a new post about the building being constructed. Do you not understand how annoying it is to say oh cool an update on the building and to instead find an off topic post about a moderately intriguing topic that is totally unrelated. If you want to share this just make a new thread on the topic it made you think of.

Rule 2 for etiquette in this type of forum after don't ask if there is an update is don't post off topic stuff because someone picture or post reminded you of something else.

Also if you know you are deviating from the thread why the hell would you go ahead and post. Just stop sometimes I appreciate the information or posts you make but stuff like this honestly just pisses me off.
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+1.

Look, I appreciate the treasure trove of information the guy wants to share. He just needs to check his ADD and learn a proper filing system of where to share it more efficiently.

He's all over the place and it takes threads offtrack to the detriment of the forum.

Once again, I DO INDEED appreciate his information - - if he ever learned about context, this forum would be far better off for it.
 
whighlander said:
Your post just points out the obvious that there has been a deviation from the thread -- its a bit like seeing the light come on in your gas gauge just as your car grinds to a stop
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Yes, it's obvious that it is impossible to see the problem until AFTER you have Whighjacked the thread. What's your point? "People can't read my mind and know ahead of time that I am about to Whighjack another thread, so it is THEIR fault for not being proactive enough"? Are you ok?

Here's a novel idea: Why don't you refrain from Whighjacking threads in the first place?
 
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This is turning out to be one of the more attractive buildings under construction. Staid but with a bit of imagination and enough asymmetries to engage the eye. I worry the turbines will be a bit gimmicky, however.
 
The building has a very strong presence when down boylston street in Fenway. I was surprised from that vantage point.

888 is the one that frames the look to downtown. That whole Boylston Fenway corridor is really starting to get a sense of place with the Boylston west building being done. The Point and BK building are really going to give it.
 
Update: The 800 Boylston Street entrance will reopen January 18.

Question: Any further word on the retail tenants? / Eataly opening date?
 
This building will probably be fantastic at street level, but now that it's facade is almost all up I can definitively call it a stumpy turd. To be a bit more technically precise: awful massing, strange embellishments, and a bizarrely saturated color of glass that clashes with everything around it. I'd argue that this is more of a techno-nightmare stump than the proposed Hancock III. I never understood the general enthusiasm for this one. (That said, I do mostly care about the street level, so all will probably be forgiven.)
 
I never liked this either, it's wider than the Pru and a third as tall but the street level presence seems fairly dramatic so far
 
Yes- massing sucks on it's own. Throw a couple more buildings in there though (Copley, BB Tower, FS) I think it plays to a nice set.
 
This is a beautiful entry way and this sort of design could make for a beautiful MBTA headhouse as well depending on the location.
 
atlantaden said:
This is a beautiful entry way and this sort of design could make for a beautiful MBTA headhouse as well depending on the location.
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Atlantaden -- Happy New Year -- Exactly on target on both counts:

1) the Pru has never had a proper entrance -- this looks to be the missing one
2) the financial as well as aesthetic benefits of a traditional gabled rather than a flat roof ought to be communicated to the T's Fin Board immediately
 
whighlander said:
Atlantaden -- Happy New Year -- Exactly on target on both counts:

1) the Pru has never had a proper entrance -- this looks to be the missing one
2) the financial as well as aesthetic benefits of a traditional gabled rather than a flat roof ought to be communicated to the T's Fin Board immediately
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Never had a proper entrance? Are you high?

This is the same entrance on Boylston Street it has had for years--it's just getting a minor face lift to look consistent with the top of 888 Boylston. But more or less this entrance looks exactly the same.

And anyway, there's also the large, gaudy entrance at the corner of Huntington and Belvedere.
 
For some reason, this reminds me of a stumpy, scaled down version of the Time Warner Center in NYC. Something about the glass over multi-story retail below.
 
Crane's on its way down.





Street-level barriers are also down. I assume plaza work will be starting soon.


Those black bars at the top seem so frustratingly arbitrary. I don't understand why that portion of the crown isn't plain glass.
 
This building FLEW. Really went up quickly. Also - if you're walking through the Pru late night, notice all of the construction workers going 24/7 to get the new entrance open. Unreal.
 
Do you guys remember when this was going to be that horrible, bloated, pregnant thing? We really dodged a bullet. This is coming out quite nice.
 
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