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I don't think it's the colors - There are only so many glass/stone/metal elements in the tool kit. Would more imagination be welcome, yes, but the high-rise palette of Houston or Boston is comparable. At least we have brick and brownstone as a contrast at streetlevel. It's the shapes. Boston...

Sorry going on a slight thread detail of that website listing Seattle as #1. There is ONE underground line currently. Yes, it serves the airport, downtown, the densest neighborhoods like Capitol Hill and UW, and is growing. There are two disconnected downtown streetcar lines that nobody rides...

It's ghost rendered in the more recent Back Bay Garage, and Skanksa 380 Stuart Street proposals - so there's always hope.

Some new render porn. Not sure if these are massing models or actual proposed buildings.

Outside New York or Chicago, these cities with singular 800'-1000' buildings tend to be surrounded by lifeless surface parking lots, trenches for 12 lane freeways, and true blight- previously vibrant neighborhoods levelled and now derelict for love of the car. These tall buildings don't add...

Y'all are crazy with your height fetishes and these spasms of 'every other city is better', every 2-3 months. Entirely new neighborhoods have been built, highways and trains have moved underground, tens of billions of dollars have been invested in downtown and the greater metro area. Almost...

If it was poured concrete form, perhaps.

I had no idea this is the future of that latest hole in the ground; 180 Third Ave. https://www.stantec.com/en/projects/united-states-projects/-/180-third-avenue

You can't just jump on a train at any London station and wait. They're all gate controlled, and give you ~10 min or less to board. The trains come and go very quickly, the downtime of trains at peak times is nil. The frequency of trains means you're usually not waiting very long for the next...

Could just be the construction method minimize exposure to the elements on occupied floors. I can't imagine a world where you could market all of these new amenities, glass galore, and still be in a 40th floor office looking not just through 80's pre-cast (relatively) tiny window, but then a...

Yes, to all the above... and if they went air rights using the Lansdowne garage, over the Pike, to that useless parking lot on the corner of Newbury and Brookline Ave (if they even own that parcel? If they don't they should!). Such a shame with all of this potentially going up, plus Fenway...

There are plenty of other boxes in Boston I quite like, pre or post One Financial, so it is hard to make that jump from "I don't like building X" to "arrogance and dismissal of entire decades of architecture". I don't think anyone went there. The façade is flat and dreary with zero dynamism, the...

One Financial is in a four way tie blandest Boston box, along with One Fed, One Beacon, and One PO Square... With PO Square getting it's re-do, that potentially changes that to a three way tie. Certain angles, like DZ's pic, it is fat AF. On rainy or grey days, the dull lifeless façade gets...

If you want to see a real life example of the wavy windows might look like, check out Winthrop's recently topped out 727' doppelganger: 320 South Canal in Chicago. https://320southcanal.com/

I wasn't quite sure where to put this, but since this is the Socials thread, sure. There is a relatively new Instagram account worth a follow: https://www.instagram.com/bostonhardhat/ Lots of render porn, both feed posts and stories. It's mostly current stuff, but there are some posts of...

It makes the horrors of Waterside Place IA slightly forgivable (but not really). It is a fine addition though.

Why do I keep looking at this thread expecting anything... :cautious:

FYI - Boston Parks has an online survey looking for feedback and ideas. 👍 https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/6013401/Copley-Square-Community-Meeting-1

Public Comment for 1 Cumberland demo delay: https://www.boston.gov/news/demolition-delay-application-1-cumberland-street-back-bay

A poor mans Elbphilharmonie? A long lost step-cousin from Rotterdam? The transition is a bit jarring, but it is still intriguing.