Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

The tower is a 43 story semi-circle rising partly within the existing Garage's perimeter. It seems reasonable to assume the part of the tower to rise above their shared space requires additional or replacement piles be laid, then, steel/concrete composite columns of far greater load capacity/stiffness than currently exists. How would that happen without removing that part of the Garage? Can that critical structure be installed one pile/column at a time instead of completing a 2nd surgical demo?
 
Assuming the design hasn't changed radically this will be a nice consolation prize for Copley Place Tower being shelved.
 
datadyne007 said:
For the Phase I Residential Tower, see the Phase I thread.

For the rest of the project:

The middle portion of the garage will largely remain on the interior. There were thoughts that they could extend the residential hallway/units from Phase 1 down the entire exterior to provide more housing and a better facade.

For the office tower, the garage is extended into levels 5-10, see:

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You can see in the 3rd pic that only half of the tower will be built for the first few floors (although theres columns for the tower in the garage) and these first few floors abut the existing garage until they get to the roof of the garage. Then both halves of the tower come together (the whole tower lol) from the top of the garage up to the roof of the tower. So you wont be able to see that the first few floors of the tower are chopped in half and up against the old garage because the garage blocks it from view, you'll just see the normal tower shape rising from the roof of the garage to the roof of the tower. Its basically like its halfway on a podium with one half going to ground level and the other half built over the garage.... which is exactly what I was saying they should have done at the garden garage office tower (with the spire) so that way it showed all of its height from ground level to its roof and wouldn't look so stumpy...which is exactly what they achieved here, but thats neither here nor there now.
 
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If anything a stronger, committed spec venture!

Fingers crossed!

Boston02124 said:
I was just there they’re going to have some nice views
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Boston; Good view of Downtown/FD. Not trying to be dramatic but

this is probably the most ghastly angle view of the JFK low office park and City Hall i've seen yet.
 
Will they do the entire extent of the demo to be done to the garage, including what is over

Congress and terra firma between Congress and the Greenway all in one smash?

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1 Congress will probably appear as the tallest thing on the Downtown Skyline on approach from 93....

not to mention being insanely fat, and on the last mile or so prolly blot out nearly 1/4 of the buildings. :)
 
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Yes, the garage demo should take place with this phase, at least according to their original plans. Below is the phased timeline they provided (page 5 of their presentation in December 2015):

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odurandina said:
1 Congress will probably appear as the tallest thing on the Downtown Skyline on approach from 93....

not to mention being insanely fat, and on the last mile or so prolly blot out nearly 1/4 of the buildings. :)
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That's one of my only concerns with this tower. It looks so sleek and elegant from the harbor view, but there are so few renders of the wide side that SO many people will see every day. Will it read well? It looks VERY wide, more than some of the large towers we already have.
 
stefalarchitect said:
That's one of my only concerns with this tower. It looks so sleek and elegant from the harbor view, but there are so few renders of the wide side that SO many people will see every day. Will it read well? It looks VERY wide, more than some of the large towers we already have.
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That's been rendered quite a bit, but I can't find it at the moment. The splash image on this page of the project website gives an idea:

https://bulfinchcrossing.com/location

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It won't be a "blank" wall, it will be a glass face with an angle at the top, and it will pick up reflections.
 
Looking at that ^, a crazy thought entered my mind: Could the North End ever have tall buildings? It is right next to an area of existing and proposed tall buildings. Yeah, I know, NIMBYs, but still....
 
It's sure getting harder. We have the enormous potential of the JFK office park and State Services building. Are they part of Downtown or the West End. Does it matter. It seems the space created by 1 Congress opens a huge opportunity to develop these site.

If these parcels fail to emerge, we have 4 additional legit skyscraper parcels in the general area, that (perhaps) can take the stage for planning in the nearer future. 1 will undoubtedly need to be planned for a future train shed for a future track expansion; so you know how lengthy that process will be. The other is a jail: (re; what neighborhood will welcome it's replacement Readville? Seaport drydock area?). Everything else is very close to the Beacon Hill Neighborhood. That leaves the low section of the O'Neill... and 65 Martha Rd; possibly the last great hope to finally top the JHT.

Even that humongous Garage in the North End will be a mess to develop.
 
Charlie_mta said:
Looking at that ^, a crazy thought entered my mind: Could the North End ever have tall buildings? It is right next to an area of existing and proposed tall buildings. Yeah, I know, NIMBYs, but still....
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It probably could, but it shouldn't. It's got a lovely density and has a very European scale to it that would be a shame to lose. The Greenway is a nice divide.
 
Charlie_mta said:
Looking at that ^, a crazy thought entered my mind: Could the North End ever have tall buildings? It is right next to an area of existing and proposed tall buildings. Yeah, I know, NIMBYs, but still....
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I think that the massive garage could be 3 towers, the surface lot on North St and the lot on Stillman could each be a tower, and the triangle at Endicot and N Washington could make for a nice Flatiron type building but otherwise I think the North End should be preserved, it is quite unique.

Bullfinch Triangle however, should have a tower on each of the surface lots with no parking, there is so much transit around
 
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