Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

awood91 said:
Winchester is closer to Back Bay than a good amount of Boston itself, you provincial douche.
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Winchester is 9 miles from the Prudential Center. Hyde Park is 7 miles from it, Mattapan 5.2, Charlestown 3.2.

What "good amounts" of Boston are you referring to? The Harbor Islands?
 
chrisbrat said:
Winchester is 9 miles from the Prudential Center. Hyde Park is 7 miles from it, Mattapan 5.2, Charlestown 3.2.

What "good amounts" of Boston are you referring to? The Harbor Islands?
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Sure
 
jass said:
Move to Las vegas if you cant live without corporate logos and flashing lights
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because all the big tower/light masterbaters suggested Boston go straight from Pyongyang darkness to surface of the sun, ritual Hong Kong chest beating. Oh wait; no one suggested anything close to that. Let's celebrate aB's intellectual politburo for going full dickhead every time someone suggests a repugnant, non-nocturnally invisible mechanical screen: because it's about to be Shanghai around here.
 
odurandina said:
because all the big tower/light masterbaters suggested Boston go straight from Pyongyang darkness to surface of the sun, ritual Hong Kong chest beating. Oh wait; no one suggested anything close to that. Let's celebrate aB's intellectual politburo for going full dickhead every time someone suggests a repugnant, non-nocturnally invisible mechanical screen: because it's about to be Shanghai around here.
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Amen
 
The things we discuss on aB that are about the street level experience, about historic preservation, about quality of materials...are legitimately worth debating/critiquing.

Most things we argue about regarding the skyline are barely worth debating because they are not even significant enough for 99% of the public to notice. (Seriously. I had a out-of-town friend visit who used to live here ten years ago. We were walking near the Common, and I pointed out Millenium Tower. His response: "oh, I didn't even notice that; I thought it was just one of the Ritz towers").

A subtly lit logo (or not) is not worth getting worked up over.
 
bigpicture7 said:
The things we discuss on aB that are about the street level experience, about historic preservation, about quality of materials...are legitimately worth debating/critiquing.

Most things we argue about regarding the skyline are barely worth debating because they are not even significant enough for 99% of the public to notice. (Seriously. I had a out-of-town friend visit who used to live here ten years ago. We were walking near the Common, and I pointed out Millenium Tower. His response: "oh, I didn't even notice that; I thought it was just one of the Ritz towers").

A subtly lit logo (or not) is not worth getting worked up over.
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You're crazy! We need at least 4-5 more pages of debate over lit signs, general darkness of the skyline and Hong Kong.
 
pretty sure there's room for folks to express interest in whatever aspects of boston architecture and urbanism interest them on this site.

what is "legitimately worth debating/critiquing" is, of course, subjective. i'd never presume to be the self-appointed arbiter of what another person can be passionate about.

you don't care about lit-up crowns or tall buildings -- cool, then ignore threads or posts that are from and for people who do care about those things.
 
chrisbrat, fair points. Though I did say "most things...regarding the skyline," not "all things."

I'm certainly not an arbiter that anyone takes seriously on this site (nor qualified to be). I was actually just trying to quell extremism on both sides by attempting to put this in perspective (e.g., "this is not that big a deal"). There's no perfect set of things to talk about on aB, and folks just need to chill a bit. Sorry if it came across differently.

tmac9wr said:
You're crazy!...
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Quite possibly. I stupidly thought my Hong Kong reference would quiet this down by suggesting "this isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things." I should know better by now.
 
chrisbrat said:
pretty sure there's room for folks to express interest in whatever aspects of boston architecture and urbanism interest them on this site.

what is "legitimately worth debating/critiquing" is, of course, subjective. i'd never presume to be the self-appointed arbiter of what another person can be passionate about.

you don't care about lit-up crowns or tall buildings -- cool, then ignore threads or posts that are from and for people who do care about those things.
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Yup. THAT I agree with.
 
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bigpicture7 said:
Shawn, you put this very eloquently, and my sentiment is almost identical to what you nicely express in your first two paragraphs.

Your last I must take exception to. Below are entirely undoctored photos from my own phone (obviously, aperture setting will affect apparent brightness, but I was not paying attention to that).
And, yes, the HK Symphony of Lights is now every night and has been expanded substantially in 2017 and 2018...
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Well that’s some egg on my face! Especially considering I’ve been there four times since they expanded that insanity. In my defense, I stay at the EAST Hotel in Taikoo and you don’t get views of Central or Causeway Bay.

I remember seeing it from Kowloon in 2016 from a restaurant we had to book in advance for that specific date, as the Symphony of Lights wasn’t daily.
 
It's really driving me nuts that the building has been open for 3-4 months and yet there is still plywood on several windows. It's the freaking Four Seasons! Are those windows really that hard to get?
 
BosDevelop said:
It's really driving me nuts that the building has been open for 3-4 months and yet there is still plywood on several windows. It's the freaking Four Seasons! Are those windows really that hard to get?
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Makes ZERO sense. As does the construction elevator on the exterior taking months to come down. As does the other external parts of the building. It's basically stalled and has little to nothing going on externally each day.

They must be focusing on the inside of the building to get condo units ready for move-in.
 
cjbski said:
Makes ZERO sense. As does the construction elevator on the exterior taking months to come down. As does the other external parts of the building. It's basically stalled and has little to nothing going on externally each day.

They must be focusing on the inside of the building to get condo units ready for move-in.
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FWIW, there has suddenly been a lot of progress on buttoning up the curtainwall where the external construction elevator was...I pass within view of this daily, and would say it's nearly half glassed-over at this point.
 
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