MassDOT Pike Parcels 12 - 15 | Boylston St. and Mass. Ave | Back Bay

[statler]

Huh. A slanted crown. I guess 'new' New Boston has a signature look now. See what you have started Millennium!

 

[odurandina]

So Parcel 12 is going to be a big decking like 1 Kenmore and Columbus Ctr?

 

[stick n move]

The ritz kicked off the slanted crown craze and Atlantic wharf cemented it as a "Boston thing".

 

[Beton Brut]

^ Actually, the I think the Ritz Towers did.

(Beat me to it, stick)


Just curious -- who's the architect on the Parcel 15 tower? It's very Herzog & de Meuron of the de Young Museum and the Switch House at the Tate.

 

[Downburst]

^ Actually, the I think the Ritz Towers did.

(Beat me to it, stick)


Just curious -- who's the architect on the Parcel 15 tower? It's very Herzog & de Meuron of the de Young Museum and the Switch House at the Tate.

Both are Elkus/Manfredi.

 

[Bos77]

Boston02124, take a bow.

Indeed.

If this happened, hopefully along with Trans-National proposal, completed Pierce and Skanska projects, etc, you've got a solid Boylston Street streetwall from the Fens to the Commom.

 

[BKNA]

The ritz kicked off the slanted crown craze and Atlantic wharf cemented it as a "Boston thing".

Didn't Millennium develop Ritz towers?

Seems like Parcel 13 has massing too on the model? Did they discuss the Peebles proposal?

 

[statler]

Didn't Millennium develop Ritz towers?

*nods*

 

[dirtywater]

Did anyone notice how short the Four seasons tower looks in this model? It looks much shorter than the Pru and the new Weiner/Samuels proposed tower looks about the same height. I know that the perspective can be deceiving, but I don't think that it accounts for what we are seeing in this photo. Downburst, did you notice that at the meeting?

 

[Boston02124]

Boston02124, take a bow.

finally I can post these

sorry for the bad quality I didn't scan them

 

[West]

These create an outstanding first impression.

Thanks for posting them.

 

[stefal]

That's pretty sharp.

 

[itchy]

The first picture in that set makes it look like a 550-foot-tall version of One Marina Park Drive (or some of the other copycats on the lower end of the Seaport architectural food chain).

The same pastiche of glass, white pre-fab concrete, and odd angles. Recalls a new stab at PoMo, as unfortunate as the original one.

Elkus really isn't a credit to this city, IMO.

 

[bobthebuilder]

 

[odurandina]

Noticed Tim Logan calling it a dark, dead, lifeless sector of the Galaxy?

He didn't rise to the level of 'you could get killed....'

translation;

1. Tim's hoping to get back in their good graces up on the 9th Floor.

2. Pru has pre-approved their own tower.

3. hey, it's PRUDENTIAL!!

4. Preemptive strike against the neighborhood barbarians.

5. ^^to the neighborhood barbarian's; it's getting rammed through.

Won't cure the sting after what appears to be the ritual killing of Downtown LA height at 1 Bromfield, but.....

 

[CBCArch61]

With a count of four levels of parking, combined with the Dalton garage, how much parking are we realistically looking at for this block??

 

[citylover94]

I like this design personally I am curious if that is actually precast cladding or if they might be using aluminum panel cladding instead like Longfellow place is the second to last picture seems more reminiscent of renders of that building than some of the precast buildings.

 

[jass]

The white building precariously perched over several existing buildings arouses me.

 

[Downburst]

This should answer most of your questions:

http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/getattachment/249a4243-0be3-4367-8d8d-6a6867fc43fc

 

[datadyne007]

This should answer most of your questions:

http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/getattachment/249a4243-0be3-4367-8d8d-6a6867fc43fc

It's rare when Elkus makes me say woah, but... WOAH:

Parcel 15 (1000 Boylston St):