Lyra (née The Huntington) | 252/258/264 Huntington Avenue | Fenway

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Some very interesting urban fabric to contend with. Dynamic and subtle facade moves for sure, and I think it’s a decent nod to the Hancock with the big vertical seam and all. Looking nice as it gets taller and proportions slim up. Though I do wish the side panels were a little less panel-ly.

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stefal said:
We’ve seen large players like Scape step back entirely after essentially running full-speed into a wall. After announcing a $1BN investment in Boston housing, they pivoted to labs or paused after their residential projects were shredded by public comments, and eventually (recently) left the market altogether.
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Scape's The Bon project is filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection after the landlord it is now suing was allegedly uncooperative. This was Scape's first project following the $1BN investment announcement.

By my count, that makes 4 failed Scape projects in the area out of 4 planned, three of which never even broke ground. Each of those faced overly critical community feedback and bureaucratic resistance before being abandoned. The only one that did get built nearly failed to neighborhood opposition to student housing under the guise of "discriminatory housing" until Scape agreed to shift toward general market units instead, and now just filed for bankruptcy.

If a developer planning to spend a billion dollars on new housing can’t get past a single project without failing, what hope do smaller players have?
 
The church's vendor spent the last two weeks landscaping/pruning trees, installing new twinkly lights, and re-lamping the plaza's accent lights. Looks good with the Lyra as a background element.

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It has some subtle underglow happening on the bottom half of the side panels in the morning. Maybe light is reflecting off the Christian Science plaza, or maybe just from the building right across the street from it? Either way it’s a nice effect.

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