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    Height Limits

    This is an old blog, but yes, the South Station Tower currently under construction as I write this reply on August 27, 2021, is going to be 677 Ft in height once completed (400 FT?), whereas for the second and third phases of the South Station Project, the future hotel will be set at 349 FT in...
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    Residential Tower | 26 Court St. | Government Center

    This "castle-in-the-sky" skyscraper proposal will of course never happen, and likewise, as for my blog entries on this website, I will never use caps either lest I be excoriated by the moderators; but, come on people, where have you all been for years on this high rise issue with regards to...
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    Pinnacle at Central Wharf (Harbor Garage) | 70 East India Row | Waterfront | Downtown

    With this ruling, it looks like the Chiofaro Tower and the Hook Lobster Hotel tower will never be built (as I figured would happen). So, is there is way to foment a movement/concerted effort by legal means of course to start a process to raze the Harbor Tower buildings? These monstrosities offer...
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    Back Bay Garage Tower | Dartmouth and Stuart | Back Bay

    Does anyone out there have an inside knowledge as to what is going on with this project? My conjecture (and I may be very wrong) is at this time that the project has been indefinitely "mothballed" just like the nearby residential skyscraper/high rise tower that would have been built by the SIMON...
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    North End Cross Street Boutique Hotel | 42 Cross Street | North End

    I will try my best to be nice here, but the City of Boston, with respect to urban design and architecture in certain areas of the City are being held hostage by ultra traditionists and in the North End, this is where you will find the most fervent naysayer NIMBYS (moderators, I am not shouting...
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    Custom House Tower Photo Thread

    Yes, I realize that is how this tower skirted the extremely Draconian Boston height limits set at that time. There are still many anti-development types in the Boston area who believe this absurd height limit should be reinforced - back a number of decades ago the Boston Globe had an article...
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    What I hate about Boston

    Yes, shmessy, Boston/Cambridge/Somerville (I have deemed this tri-city name as BosCamSom) has undergone a radical transformation with respect to the urban environment and this trend will continue to morph the tri-city for years to come. I have been rather critical of this "Boscamsom" in some of...
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    What I hate about Boston

    From a purely historical perspective, I agree with this statement wholeheartedly and completely; when the Irish who were suffering miserably due to the Potato Blight of the Mid 19th Century came to Boston in search of a better life, the 19th Century Protestant ancestor carry-overs from the...
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    What I hate about Boston

    Someone wrote in a response to my commentaries regarding the Puritans: the Puritans WERE NOT INTO THE ARTS, WERE NOT INTO POETRY in diametric opposition to your assertion that they were- OMG, so wrong! these Bible Thumping STICKS up the BUTT were behind the drownings and hangings of people whom...
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    What I hate about Boston

    In agreement with your agreement of assessment, if that makes any sense....LOL.....I love this little boring Boston as it is my hometown - I lived in the inner-city neighborhood of Mattapan for 8 years growing up, then nearby Milton, currently I live next door in Newton, and my family-run...
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    What I hate about Boston

    Boston has a tradition of being a staid, old fart town, probably due to the original sticks in the mud, fun-DESPISING Puritans who founded this City. In contrast, NYC was founded by the freewheeling Dutch and take note of the fact that the Dutch peoples of our own time maintain their far more...
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    Custom House Tower Photo Thread

    I realize this reply is coming out of the blue 14 going on 15 years AFTER your post, but I believe the Custom Tower is THE most iconic tower in Boston, and will probably have that distinction forever, in my opinion of course - some will say the Pru or 200 Clarendon, but I go with the Custom...
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    I suppose I will be vilified You can vilify me once again vanshnookenraggen after my apparent violation of posting tone in an earlier post (which will not happen again), but I must state the following; you are more than likely in the minority here with your calling the Hurley Building an...
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    ArchBoston Regulations & Code of Conduct

    I will comply with all of your posting guidelines and I am sorry if I broke some of your rules in an earlier post; again, full compliance will be adhered to by me, username Tension Member - yet, I will relieve all tension and stress going forward.
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    Hello Equilibria.......Yes, the Hurley Building is an architectural disgrace as are almost all examples of Brutalist architecture with few exceptions (the Christian Science Center Colonnade along with the reflecting pool along Huntington Avenue has some merit in my opinion). To wit, the...

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