State Street HQ | One Congress | Bulfinch Crossing | West End

Today's Herald article on the topping off ceremony referred to the new building as being 528' tall.
 
Charlie_mta said:
Also the glass looks quite a bit darker overall.
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welp... i'd have assumed it went w/o saying, but that is a nighttime render. the tower in nashvile is cladded in non-tinted reflective glass, just like our own ovoid tower.
 
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Yesterday, approaching thru Somerville

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^ I like how derelict the McGrath is looking in its twilight years

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HarvardP said:
The irony of you making this statement...
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It was a harmless joke/play on words. What is your problem?

You made similar personal attacks a few weeks ago and the mods deleted a couple of your odd ad hominem attack/unhinged posts. Your continued stalking of me is, frankly, creepy.

This forum has always been a positive/progressive and safe place from that type of thing. I hope you find peace.
 
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Charlie_mta said:
Looks like a cross between State Street HQ and the Millennium Tower. I like it.
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I like it too - a graceful addition to SD especially given that it incorporated balconies. It gleams with those golden CA sunsets.
 
chrisbrat said:
currently in smashville and the j.w. marriott tower is *very* similar to this one (if the proportions aren't exactly identical, it's damn near) -- just with a bulge at the top and w/o the pleats/fins. View attachment 14872
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I live in Nashville and idk why it never occurred to me that this is almost a carbon copy of One Congress...albeit about 2/3 the height.
 
KriterionBOS said:
wikipedia says this thing topped out on 7/15...is that true?
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I think so. At least I think that’s the top floor. The white things rising vertically from the top look too flimsy to be steel beams for new floors so I’m guessing it’s mechanical space. I remember seeing something similar at the top of the Sudbury.
 
Moment of truth in the next 1-2 weeks regarding the scale at which the top 'fins' were downsized to.. Hopefully not too much..
 
Tough to see in this photo, but I think the mirrored glass with vertical features is going to be a welcome and surprising (to me, anyway) contrast from the standard hue that’s popping up everywhere. Especially north of Gov’t Center.

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Lrfox said:
Tough to see in this photo, but I think the mirrored glass with vertical features is going to be a welcome and surprising (to me, anyway) contrast from the standard hue that’s popping up everywhere. Especially north of Gov’t Center.
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I agree - - Hardisx's excellent pic is the first time I've noticed the vertical glass features popping up near the bottom there. At that current cutoff level, that part looks very "Madison Garden" to me.

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The State Street HQ is even better - - a far taller structure with the added "flowing dress". I LOVE that - - and yes, it is a refreshing change from some of the sameness we've seen in the new glass buildings of Boston. Here's to more variety like that.
 
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