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Yeah, it's pretty cool with those massive diagonal braces. Around 0:57 from the construction animation you see the braces being "built" (it doesn't really represent the placing of these giant beams well, but they're there). It looks like they stop after the first 10 floors above the archways...

I'm going to assume it is if they even included "to be built" properties like 380 Stuart St. And your right... it's fascinating watching such a large building vanish when oriented to the NE (like inbound on the Tobin)

I can't imagine it's a big production as the original renders of placing it within the South Garden. You walk into the former storefront space and there's essentially a vestibule with an escalator to take you down to -1 and then I think you pick up the elevator down there within a modest lobby...

You're not wrong and an upgrade to South Station being nice for all travelers to enjoy, but this scenario is not unique. If we consider the other three recent luxury towers in town, 1 Dalton, 1 Franklin and 115 Federal, their immediate exterior locales feature various flavors of urban grit...

Could you say more about this? How will it stick out? I'm inferring you're speaking to height, which to be fair, Macallen is only a block away (<400 feet ) and at 14 stories (I saw listed at 169', or 20 - 30' taller than these buildings) is pretty comparable height-wise. Perhaps you're speaking...

so oddly, the climber that's clearly visible in themissinglink's photos is missing as of this morning. I'm pretty confident that despite its new height, the crane is not tall enough to clear the eventual top of the core.

"Boston Globe: Fear, loathing, and bike lanes in West Roxbury" The degree of animosity towards bike lanes is really baffling to me; I say that as a year-round cycle commuter. I also almost got clobbered today on Dot Ave northbound at A St. Jeep was trying to jump the light/cross two lanes of...

It's amazing how large this will be. The core already looks pretty substantial from the south, yet here it's making a modest impression. It's also wild to think how much further this has to go (borrowing DRR's photo for illustrative purposes).

I don't think these steps were ever intended to be "placemaking," rather an attractive (and new) way into/ out of the Seaport, but I imagine that these will be quite hostile in the winter due to wind, etc until that second building is completed.

I don't love the colossal order on the CitizenM building; it's just too small to carry those proportions IMO. I think the approach works fine on the Car Gurus building, but I wish that maybe all the spandrels were that dark glass color, leaving a handsome vertical striping elements in that...

It's felt like forever.... Noticed that signals between Dorchester Brewery, north to Melnea Cass have already been installed (not operational/ getting the trash bag treatment). Hopefully this is opened soon.

We got another crane jump on the central crane this weekend. It's really getting up there in height now; tip of the jib is quickly approaching 1 Financial's roofline.

unfamiliar with the necessity to paint some of this steel white... assuming some sort of anti-corrosive purpose, but why? I think this steel is "inside" the structure when fully built.

We talked a few pages back about the arches themselves: what form they would take, which iteration of renders would come to fruition, with concern that the grandiose arches most recently rendered may not be what's being built today. I wonder if this particular poster provides confirmation (or...

I'd personally love to see the flag poles return... I can't articulate why, but it just feels more "regal," especially with this new tower looming behind.

Why would 1 Dalton not fit this description?

I appreciate this perspective and for a building like South Station Tower, who doesn't love to see the guts of that thing as it goes up?! That said, I think these have relevance too, giving us a bigger perspective of how the skyline as an amorphous blob evolves as a new tower takes its full...

I wish they would consider a 5 over 1 treatment here to offer more housing like the move in the West End.

From 111?

They added a climber on the second, lower crane; it's a few segments taller as of this morning (though still shorter that then crane within the core).