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A third try for a Downtown Crossing tower. This time it’s a lot shorter - The Boston Globe

A key corner of the shopping district could be the site of a 21-story office building.
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It's back at 21 stories, and still takes out the corner facades!
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Equilibria said:
BPDA hasn't posted the NPC yet, but the render looks like timber. I know you like height, but that would make this cool.
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I don't like timber either for a tall building. Makes me think it's an inferno waiting to happen. Bad height, bad material, still annihilates the Payless building on the corner. What's to like? BPDA never should have said "too tall" as part of their criticism. BPDA should be disbanded.
 
DZH22 said:
BPDA should be disbanded.
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On the long long long litany of grievances Bostonians collectively harbor vs. the BPDA--many of which are surely totally justified--the BPDA's role in the ongoing morph of the One Bromfield St. development scheme is so utterly trivial and insignificant as to not even register with a scanning electron microscope.
 
DZH22 said:
I don't like timber either for a tall building. Makes me think it's an inferno waiting to happen. Bad height, bad material, still annihilates the Payless building on the corner. What's to like? BPDA never should have said "too tall" as part of their criticism. BPDA should be disbanded.
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Manufactured timber has been making inroads. I'm hoping that this is Boston's first. Glulam, etc. have been certified by various code organizations as perfectly fire safe. I've been following the overseas developments and hope to see one make its way here.

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‘Plyscrapers’: The rise of the wooden skyscraper

Timber skyscrapers are sprouting up across the globe, from Vancouver to Vienna. Are they strong enough? Will they rot? And won't they burn down?
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I'll be willing to go fight against this current iteration. You don't lose pre war buildings over projects like this. The BPDA needs to start realizing this and not just listen to NIMBYS
 
reverend_paco said:
Manufactured timber has been making inroads. I'm hoping that this is Boston's first. Glulam, etc. have been certified by various code organizations as perfectly fire safe. I've been following the overseas developments and hope to see one make its way here.
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This building would be awesome in Andrew or Union Squares. But a stone’s throw from DTX? Surely we can do better.
 
Hey, no parking. That's a plus.

What's the logic in saving the existing structures? The building with Payless is nice enough, but not of any great architectural significance or historical value, and it would just be a facade after the gut if incorporated. The cheap, low-slung neighboring structures are rather sad relics of an era when DTX was on a serious downswing and thus seriously scaled down. Redevelopment of the combined lots absolutely shouldn't be held up by a preservation crusade.
 
HarvardP said:
Hey, no parking. That's a plus.

What's the logic in saving the existing structures? The building with Payless is nice enough, but not of any great architectural significance or historical value, and it would just be a facade after the gut if incorporated. The cheap, low-slung neighboring structures are rather sad relics of an era when DTX was on a serious downswing and thus seriously scaled down. Redevelopment of the combined lots absolutely shouldn't be held up by a preservation crusade.
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One reason to save the Payless facade is to get the architect to think a bit about street wall and context (something the rendering shows zero regard for). This design really does not try to fit into DTX context at all.

I agree wholeheartedly about the other buildings though.
 
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