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Re: Residences at Kensington This is a big project for TAT, horns will be blown.

Re: 319 A Street Rear Indeed, it got the chop. 21 floors. Lobby and community spaces, four floors of parking, sixteen floors of apartments, with a mechanical floor on top.

Re: The Victor Blandscrapers! Love it.

This and Cuppacoffee are the architectural joke/turds of 2013

Re: Waterside Place No purchasing, this is a rental building. Partial occupancy is a little trickier but not unheard of. My guess is the schedule on the project website is a little ambitious.

What is cheap looking? Berklee is one of the most expensive schools in Boston. William Rawn is one of the guys you call when you have money to spend.

Re: Waterside Place Rendering is ok - although the mockup lowered expectations. Don't mean to be overly negative, since it is another big resi project in the Seaport. Shame that supermarket on the right side of the render is now part of "phase 2".

Re: Residences at Kensington JANUARY 15, 2013 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Emerging Professionals Network tour The Kensington, 659 Washington St, Boston EPNet takes a hard-hat tour of The Kensington, a $172 million, 27-story high-rise of 381 residential rental units and 4,000 square feet of retail...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion Is this the secret Menino online identity? Regarding stump, sure it'd be a more interesting skyline - but the financial sweet spot is 20-25 stories on all these constrained urban sites right now.

Re: The Victor I agree with your overall point, but I think Millenium's Roman brick is a step above what we're seeing here. When you factor in those nice dark horizontal windows compared to street-facing louvers there's definitely a winner.

DowntownDave your first photo is 319 A Street, and your second is 381 Congress.

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place Beautiful? Are we looking at the same rendering? Welcome to Downtown Crossing, the coldest place you have ever been. I have my issues with the current iteration but it's waaaay better than that glass turd.

Re: Residences at Kensington The W? That is a compliment. Realistically the "back" side of the W probably cost twice as much as this curtain wall. This one's great: Looks like straight aluminum finish, no paint. Big fat corner mullion. Cheapo green-tint glass. Way too much spandrel instead...

Looks like a nice little addition to the skyline. High hopes for the skin of this building - Berklee can afford whatever expensive glass details William Rawn comes up with. I think eventually we might draw comparisons between this and the new dormitory at MassArt. Two buildings that "elevate"...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion This photo shows the edge condition: I would say this piece looks unusually thick. I suspect the less complicated (flat) panels have pieces somewhere around 1" to 3". A "real" load-bearing limestone building would be hard to come by today...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion This building is indeed "stone and precast". The stone is sourced (by Bybee) from the same mine as the limestone on the original Liberty building. The difference is that instead of being carved and laid up on site, it's sent to Artex Systems in...

Re: 319 A Street Rear Structure is up to the 4th floor as of today..

Re: Waterside Place There are many different types of foundation systems. In Boston, you will most often see precast concrete piles and steel piles. For starters, precast concrete piles aren't cylinders. If you look closely at the photo above you can see that they actually have a square...