The Boulevard (née The Times/Littlest Bar) | 110 Broad St | Downtown

Did anyone on the development or design team look at this and say "I'm really proud of this"?
 
I havent really paid attention to this but it looks like retail ground floor? Along with that other new building too. At the end of the day the greenway is going to be lined with retail from the victor to one greenway along with fanuel hall, the waterfront, the blackstone market, the Boston public market...etc. Some of these new buildings arent anything to be proud of architecturally, but overall they improve the ground level of one of the most beautiful parts of the city. Ill take it.

Obviously I liked the first design better even though that was bad too, but once it is filled with people, furniture, curtains, itll break up the monotony of those glass parts.
 
Yeah, it'll be nice when all the developments from here to The Victor fill in. Every block from The Victor down to North Street is spoken for, then you hit this alternating pattern of inert blocks starting with the garage between North and Clinton Streets, then the 'butt' of 200 State Street with a brief opening to Quincy Market, then another inert block from State to Central street, a tiny sliver of activity with Granary Tavern, another inert block with Related Beal's 177 Milk Street, and finally retail again at 55 India and this building.

Doing another double take on the approved renderings and the latest renderings, I get where you guys are upset over the value engineering, but at least to my layperson eye, I don't see that dramatic a change on the Greenway face. It looks like decent infill to me, so I'm not getting some of the outrage. Perhaps I'm just not getting it because I never experienced whatever was magical about The Littlest Bar?...
 
stefalarchitect said:
This is way too short for this location.
I'll take what we're getting.. its not that bad, but a sleek 350-400' tower on top of this would've improved this tenfold.
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Stefalar --- Sorry its not way to short -- a tall tower in that location would look cheap and irrelevant when placed next to the true gem of the Custom's House -- a sleek 450' - to 500' tower
 
A tall tower on either or both of the sites being discussed here would be very thin and sleek and could actually offer a really interesting counterpoint to the Custom House. So long as the materials and design are good there is no reason a modern skyscraper couldn't be a good complimentary element to the Custom House Tower.
 
I'm sure this design will be profitable for the developer. I'm sure that was the start and end of the design consideration.
 
I'm not seeing cheap or shit here. This building will be at least as good as One Greenway and based on what I can see I think it will be better.


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I think some people emotional attachments may be clouding their judgement. The latest version of this actually looks like a pretty solid design to me.
 
I havent payed attention to this until like 2 days ago but this actually looks good and meshes with the surrounding area. I went through the entire thread these have not been shown here, although very similar renders have. This is the design we currently stand with at the moment. Not bad if I do say so myself. I agree with other posters on here let the Custom house tower be shown. 99.9% chance whatever would have been built here if they went tall would not have been better. Anybody can have a skinny glass tower in 2016, nobody else can have a Custom House tower.

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People are basing their opinions off of Charlie mta 's renderings he posted. I guess it all depends on what version we are getting
 
I'm liking these renderings. Apparently sanity prevailed.
 
Depending on what that bronze portion of the facade is made of if they keep this it looks amazing.
 
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I REALLY love seeing contrast like this when I walk around cities. I also just noticed the band of granite/concrete and cladding just above the ground floor that wraps around the entire building and is a design nod to the older building.

I'm really curious about that bronze/metal map at eye level on the Broad Street side...
 
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