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This is an excellent point. Fan Pier master plan (streets, parcel dimensions, heights, etc.) was drawn up by the Pritzker family's planners. Yes - the same family that awards the "Nobel prize of architecture". So, the Pritzkers' chunky blocks in addition to the strict FAA height yielded...

I thought you were talking about specifying a building's footprint (not lot size) in zoning - I understand your point. The only height limit on Fan Pier is the one required (not recommended) by the FAA. I have seen buildings get their penthouses demolished because of FAA height violations...

Footprints are essentially dictated by property lines and required setbacks. Developers will maximize their footprints and FAR regardless, so specifying footprints would not only be difficult, but also pointless. There are two curses on Fan Pier: first is the FAA height limit. The site is a...

The stains are not from the precast panel itself, but from the exposed structural steel that was above the precast. This is a scheduling issue, they put precast up to a certain height and left steel above it for a long time before they came back with the new precast to close it all up. I think...

Re: Fan Pier Nope; they're cheap. They cover a lot of facade area very quickly. That's why developers love them. Fan Pier will apparently be LEED Silver. I don't know if anyone has pics taken from the ICA side, but it looks like that side will be full height glass curtainwall.

Re: Fan Pier This is incorrect, at least for Fan Pier. There is a master plan architect, but each building will be designed by a different architect.

Re: Fan Pier For the masterplan and street layout. There is nothing suburban about this: http://www.fanpierboston.com/#/fanPier/theVision/masterPlan/viewMasterPlan/ For some of the buildings. Nothing ICA level here, but decent looking buildings...

Re: Fan Pier To clarify some of blatant misconceptions about Fan Pier: -It will not be a precast palace. The waterfront buildings on the aerial rendering are left-overs from the previous owner's architect. On the contrary, you will see a lot of glass in the project when it's completed. -It...

It's Kyu Sung Woo. The color choices are really unfortunate; I don't know what they were thinking. I think that once the curtainwall pieces are complete, the project will appear more unified and we can hopefully look past the bad colors.

What does everyone want, more of the postmodern brick Boston crap? There is no question that the precast color choice was poor, but here is a great architectural firm doing cutting edge architecture (esp. for Boston). The massing is very successful and it will be a good, sustainable building...