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Re: Millennium Tapped for Winthrop Square Tower Was really hoping for either HYM's site plan or Accordia's design. Would have loved to seen SHoP put something up here. Oh well, let's get this thing rolling.

I'm not sure why they're so off in those schedules (both from early 2015). The construction management plan, dated December 2014 puts the completion in April 2018. The way they list the phases durations in the CMP isn't totally clear, but the way I read it is when they list the Duration: # of...

Per the CMP they're installing three levels of bracing, and excavating down to 42'. Just going by davec's pics, it looks like they have 2 levels of bracing installed on one corner, and one level on the other two. If you go back a few weeks before that they only had the one. So I'm going to guess...

You know why those "hipster" restaurants have to pay a lot for that decor? It costs a lot more money to go in and salvage those building materials than it does to just tear them out. You're talking about going in and carefuly dismantling the building, stacking the materials for transport, and...

What exactly would they salvage? Brick? Wood joists?

In my not so proffessional opinion, it looks like the shoring for this was woefully under designed. That's on the GC & whoever they hired to design the shoring. The shoring is entirely from the exterior, and the way it's set up I just don't see how it's working to keep the facade up. The beams...

Was going to post this in the Mass pike parcels 12 -15 thread, but thought it fit better here. Just came across some videos of the first couple of sections of the Rockerfeller University's East River campus being set in place over the FDR and thought folks here might find them interesting...

DOT's work was probably planned out as prior to or as this bid was happening. I highly doubt any work has been coordinated as I'm sure they didn't know who the eventual winner was going to be. Not to mention the work shown in the proposals was only schematic. there is still a great deal of...

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 I feel like 111 W 57th (Also SHoP), better illustrates your point better than Tower Verre. There's already a mock-up of the facade, and IMO it looks fantastic. Both 111 W 57 & 340 Flatbush are SHoP designs. Tower...

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Green 9/12 months is better than grey 12/12 months. When working in One P.O, I was supremely jealous of the green space on the roof of One Fed.

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 All those proposals, except for HYM, are going to feel clustered into that area, both on street level and in the skyline. The twin tower proposal will feel especially shoe-horned into the site. The HYM proposal does...

Crane-ception

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Wow, stay off the interwebs for one day and you miss everything. Here's my 2 cents on each proposal after giving them a quick skim.. Accordia, is still a good design, although I'd much prefer the sleek tower they...

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Re: South Station Tower I did notice that whigh, but thanks for pointing it out. Your services are greatly appreciated. The tower is indeed between the bus terminal and the train station, but they can still allow for a direct connection. The first two images were more to my point that there...

Re: South Station Tower The tower shouldn't really "mate" with the base, I agree that wouldn't look right. It should only interact with south station in the form of a greatly expanded bus terminal with direct connection to the train platforms. Just looked at the architect's site for the bus...

Scroll through the construction management plan, you can pretty clearly see the footprint of the future building vs. the extent of the site fencing. You can also see where they'll have the crane & hoists.

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Also, if you're just comparing the two images in stick's post, the renderings are at different scales. Look at the far left of the images. In the one that appears larger, the left limit of the image is 45 province &...

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Also, just pulled down the list of planholders, and Shirley Kressel grabbed a copy of the RFP and just listed 'Citizen & Taxpayer' as her company. It gave me a chuckle.

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 THANK YOU! Finally someone is in agreement with me. While the actual design of the accordia tower is quite nice, and most developed (and by one of the most qualified arch firms), HYM's site plan I think has a major...