115 Federal St. (Winthrop Square)

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That's nowhere near south station. It wouldn't be Gateway either, I don't think, but it's closer to gateway than SS.
 
Actually it looks like the rendering of the SST is "popping" it's head out from behind a few buildings just to the right of the rendering of Winthrop
 
Yea SST is definitely peaking through a little bit. The rendering looks great, but I think Winthrop Sq. might be a little too short. It looks like it's almost the same height as Gateway...in the renderings it's a lot taller and thinner. Other than that it looks great, it's awesome to take a peak at "what might be". Castevens mentioned that the Gateway Center location is a little off...would the correct location be a bit closer to downtown?
 
On the right, you have to add the Berklee proposal and the BU tower under construction, although I dont know if the BU one would make the cut in this image

Edit: No it wouldnt, I see the citgo sign . Berklee would though
 
I was under the impression that gateway center was dead.
 
kmp1284 said:
I was under the impression that gateway center was dead.
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Nope, during the last sampan news, Gateway Center is due for renderings this February. Also, that is Gatway Center, I used google earth to place it correctly as possible and from this angle, it actually looks pretty far away from SST. Also, I think I might have made GC a little higher than it is supposed to. I'm pretty sure 115 Winthrop is pretty accurate. Though it is hard to see through this rendering, you can also see 45 Province and the Filene's Tower
 
Interesting news, also what is the joshua street project?
 
Not February but Spring and there might not be renderings. I misread a little. Here's a piece of the article.

Leung said the data ?- which he cautioned was somewhat a work-in-progress -? will be used for the coalition?s main goal of advocating for a development of a lot of up to 20-acres next to Chinatown, known officially as the South Bay Planning Study Area. The area, which the coalition says should be named the Chinatown Gateway, consists mostly of former Big Dig parcels, and is bounded by Kneeland Street, Albany Street, the Massachusetts Turnpike I-90 mainline, and the I-93 northbound mainline.

?We just wanted to show that the trend is not to develop affordable housing,? said Leung.

However, he said, a high demand for low-income housing exists in Chinatown based on waiting lists at federally subsidized apartment complexes.

But Leung said he did not want to say what type of housing would be best at the site, and that would be left up to residents and community groups. The coalition has met with residents to tell them about the South Bay Planning Study Area and hopes to also collaborate with business owners, community groups and others.

By the spring of 2007, the group plans to host a community design forum for to come up with ideas for what could be built on the expansive lot.

Whoever builds on the land will likely encounter a costly and complicated project because elevated highway roads and ramps cross through it, leaving only about 10 acres of usable dirt ground. Boston Residential submitted a proposal in 2004 to develop the area, most of which is owned by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, but the authority has yet to make a decision on whether to accept the proposal and little news about the land has been released for nearly three years.

The Boston Residential proposal included a 67-floor building called the Gateway Tower, and 1,669 housing units.

The Chinatown Gateway Coalition has said it hopes to take advantage of the lull in the city and state planning processes for the area and draft its own guidelines for developing the land. City officials, however, have said that the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and the Boston Redevelopment Authority have already worked with Chinatown neighborhood leaders for the initial planning of the lot?s development.
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is this an old picture? where is r2d2, or is the angle so that it is blocked by the pru?
 
DarkFenX, if you'd like to email me he larger version of your rendering, I can host it on my webspace.
 
NBC News

Did anyone happen to catch NBC news last night? During the coverage of the lightbright/Comedy Central terrorism scare they had an image of the Boston skyline in the little window behind the anchor. It was a shot from the water with International Place prominently featured. Anyway, dwarfing the other buildings in the shot was the Winthrop Square tower. Seemed kind of strange that a building that hasn't even been approved was being used in the NBC graphic. There's a link to the story on this page: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/ (the story is titled "A not-so-funny terror scare in Boston")
 
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Hehe, well it cleared the first big hurdle. So it's *practically* built :lol:
 
Also, I watched that last night, and I didn't even notice that in the image. I think it's because my wife and I were shuddering at the national embaressment.
 
Well, on the other hand, now the terrorists know what to do... Plant 13 of those harmless objects in random areas, and one with real explosives on a major support column to a bridge or something to that effect. I agree that there was a lot of overreaction involved, but I believe that it's best to play it safe because my aforementioned possibility is VERY feasible. In Seattle, Philly, and NYC they took down these devices without a problem. We could have done the same (and probably would have) had there not been one on a support column for a bridge.

Yay Post 9-11
 
and how incredibly interesting that the skyline photo had 115 Fed St. in it. I can only imagine that they guys behind the scenes who draft up the Nightly News just typed "Boston" into their internal search field, and clicked the latest skyline rendering, which happened to show Winthrop Sq.
 
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and how incredibly interesting that the skyline photo had 115 Fed St. in it. I can only imagine that they guys behind the scenes who draft up the Nightly News just typed "Boston" into their internal search field, and clicked the latest skyline rendering, which happened to show Winthrop Sq.
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Is there something in the works that the graphic was generated/ released to the news outlets that they just added the terror piece to?
 
Oh man. New York gets attacked by international terrorists. Boston gets attacked by "Cartoon lighting devices."

The only people that should go to jail from this are the ones who actually thought this was a bomb.

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