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Re: 315 on A (formerly 319 A Street Rear)

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Re: 315 on A (formerly 319 A Street Rear)

This is what you want from a development. This building improves the area, takes cues from surrounding buildings and expands on them, quality materials, the correct height for the area, matches the "pallette" but stands out. When I saw the renderings I thought it looked good but I didnt think it was going to be anything more than a filler, but I was wrong this this is a gem.
 
Re: 315 on A (formerly 319 A Street Rear)

315 ... I can't quit you.

cca
 
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I'm curious as to why there are corner balconies on every other floor, what could be the reason for that? And the window sections that are, hmmmm, stepped in, from the rest of the facade on the narrow side directly to the left of the vertical For Lease sign, are they, possibly, to be balconies as well? Love this building, BTW!
 
Re: 315 on A (formerly 319 A Street Rear)

Form over function.
 
A tweet from the friends of Fort Point Channel mentioned this will open in 3 weeks.
 
Anyone else think this looks a bit like Millennium Place III? Except a little... sexier? How's the ground floor -- does it have anything to offer? There's never any close ups/ground shots with this project.
 
BostonUrbEx said:
Anyone else think this looks a bit like Millennium Place III? Except a little... sexier? How's the ground floor -- does it have anything to offer? There's never any close ups/ground shots with this project.
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I see what you mean but even though i really like millennium place III this is in a completely different league
 
Re: 315 on A (formerly 319 A Street Rear)

atlantaden said:
I'm curious as to why there are corner balconies on every other floor, what could be the reason for that? And the window sections that are, hmmmm, stepped in, from the rest of the facade on the narrow side directly to the left of the vertical For Lease sign, are they, possibly, to be balconies as well? Love this building, BTW!
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Eh, the balconies are there simply to appeal to people that want them and they can also rent those apartments at a higher price.
 
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datadyne007 said:
Eh, the balconies are there simply to appeal to people that want them and they can also rent those apartments at a higher price.
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Data -- there are other balconies on the back? of the building -- do they align with the corner balconies on each floor or are they out of phase but synchronous with the corner balconies?
 
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whighlander said:
Data -- there are other balconies on the back? of the building -- do they align with the corner balconies on each floor or are they out of phase but synchronous with the corner balconies?
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I have no idea what you are saying, but there are indeed other balconies on the other side of the building on the opposite end. They appear to be recessed if you go back a few pages and look at photos.
 
Data -- are the other [recessed] balconies [would that correctly be termed a loggia] on the same floor as the projecting corner balconies or are they on opposite floors or possibly uncorrelated?
 
whighlander said:
Data -- are the other [recessed] balconies [would that correctly be termed a loggia] on the same floor as the projecting corner balconies or are they on opposite floors or possibly uncorrelated?
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I don't know. I don't work for ADD Inc, nor did I have any involvement with this project. My knowledge of this building is solely comprised of seeing the same pictures that you can in this thread.
 
datadyne007 said:
I don't know. I don't work for ADD Inc, nor did I have any involvement with this project. My knowledge of this building is solely comprised of seeing the same pictures that you can in this thread.
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Data -- just wondering as the photos are a bit inconclusive

Lat time I saw it there was just structure -- I have not been down there since the cladding process started
 
Hey Whighlander, I just did a count from top to bottom to determine which floors the alternating balconies appear on, and it looks like the balconies are indeed on the same floors. Hope that answers your question. Also, the ground level for this building is unique because of the downtown Chicago-style double-deck street grid around it.
 
The Batterymarch building does this trick where it uses darker colored bricks on the bottom, and subtly becomes lighter as it goes up. It produces the effect of making it seem taller and gives it more vertical thrust.

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I'd love to see someone try the same trick with these terra cotta blocks.

Having posted this, I just noticed how much the Mandarin on Boylston takes from the Batterymarch. Never noticed it before.
 
The Woolworth tower does that with terracotta, both to enhance the visual appearance of height and of depth in the facade. That's kind of an extreme example though, and probably more than we can expect in Boston.
 
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