Not necessary to do that. Instead, the corridor between Stuart Street and Boylston Street could have the skyscrapers. But then, of course, will be the concern about shadows on the Public Garden and the Common.
Three ways to do it, only one destroys Bay Village. Besides that option, there is the option of destroying the section of Chinatown across the Pike from Bay Village. That's obviously also a non-starter, but someday, maybe we'll get some more air rights projects and a tower might end up straddling the trench. That's a version of the extended high spine I could get behind.
Sounds like you are advocating for Columbus Center being revived. (Although a corner of the terra firma needed for the tower was purposefully turned into Frieda Garcia Park, corner of Stanhope and Clarendon, to prevent that tower from ever being proposed again.)
I generally agree with you and also generally like skysrapers (nice ones...), but I disagree on this point.
Good points. Also, like I say, the placing of skyscrapers near the south side of the Public Garden and the south and east sides of the Common could produce unacceptable shadows. It's probably best to leave that part of town as mid-rise.
I always thought it was really cool how both boston and nyc similarly have two separate skylines along their length but for two completely different reasons.
We have a thread that had this in it. Most of the links are broken now unfortunately due to photobucket dying but this page has some pretty similar massing models to what youre looking for.
I still have this one that was posted on aB from davem showing an ingenious concept for capping the Mass Pike:
Thanks, I’m going to save that. Thats exactly what I was talking about, thankfully someone saved it.
It is sad. A lot of smallish 5 over 1 apartment and condo developments are being covered, but not many major developments. Also at a standstill are transit and roadway developments, although Rutherford Ave and William Reid overpass (Memorial Drive at BU Bridge) are in a somewhat active planning/preliminary design stage, but the grounding of the McGrath overpass removal project, the I-90 Allston interchange/throat area project, and the Red-Blue Connector subway are all hung up in some kind of bureaucratic netherworld.
I'd add that new housing development seems to be stalled due to Wu's policies/requirements as well.
This would be a great thread to share where we would think the next skyscrapers should be.
Here's mine:
I have no clue what this building is, but it's disappointing to have the only commercial space nearly out of sight.
It is very sad. Lots of "culprits" -- Wu, bio-tech boom ending, overall economy (in particular soaring interest rates, high material costs due to tariffs and the fatass ding-dong in the WH), increased city affordability requirements, market correction, etc. -- I hear and read compelling arguments for any/all being the primary reason behind the lag, but... yeah, agreed. As much as I regret the missed opportunities (looking at you Copley Place Tower, although there are others), I do appreciate what we managed to get between, say, 2007 and 2025. Would be nice if things turned around sooner than later.
It is on one hand, but on the other hand we just hit the end of what a 15 year boom? The longest in bostons history. I was looking through the future skyline thread and at user made renders from like 2016 and looking at those skyline renders almost every building has now been built. Air rights projects, south station tower, winthrop center, govt center garage, north station. We got 5 towers over 600 feet, the big 3 have been completed sst, winthrop, and 1 dalton. The seaport has been filled up massively, theres a 450 footer u/c in kendall sq, union square got a tower, even fenway got a 368’ tower. Suffolk downs is finally under construction, northpoint is half built out, assembly has doubled in size, brighton even now has its own little skyline at new balance.
Yea as I said most were built. Didnt say built to their theoretical maximum rendered height, but built nonetheless. Sst, 115 fed, one congress, one dalton, millennium tower, hub on causeway, north station tower, 40 trinity, parcel 13 all got built. A couple important ones like copley and parcel 15 did not. Aquarium was never serious. Cambridges tallest is u/c. Pretty successful cycle.
