Aerials

Lookaround at ~100 feet

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And 60 meters or about 200 feet, which apparently is as high as drones can fly in this area

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In-Effing-Credible, Kz!

When such a rarely shown angle is taken, it looks like a completely different city. Thank you!!!
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In-Effing-Credible, Kz!

When such a rarely shown angle is taken, it looks like a completely different city. Thank you!!!
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It does look like a different city. St. Petersburg, Russia with it's stately blocks of grand classic buildings going on and on comes to mind.
 
If only those South End style blocks extended all the way to Franklin Park.
 
There actually will be a chance to extend them across melnea cass once that area is eventually redeveloped. Will it happen though? Very unlikely.
 
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From Kz's absolutely fantastic photos, 330 Beacon stands out like an incongruous sore thumb. A Tremont on the Common in the Back Bay. What was there before? And why was this height permitted?

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From Kz's absolutely fantastic photos, 330 Beacon stands out like an incongruous sore thumb. A Tremont on the Common in the Back Bay. What was there before? And why was this height permitted?

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Yeah, I've always liked the building in isolation - - - but that one always sticks out as a really sore thumb in the real world there.

Incredibly out of context to its surroundings. Who actually said, "Yeah, this block will go well next to 19th century Parisienne mansard roofs!'. The 1960's version of putting a lab across the street from the new State Street HQ.
 
From Kz's absolutely fantastic photos, 330 Beacon stands out like an incongruous sore thumb. A Tremont on the Common in the Back Bay. What was there before? And why was this height permitted?

 

Amazing and sad that they were able to find photos of the houses that were demolished for it. Definitely sours my opinion of the building.
 

Man... those were truly gems from that period. In no way "filler" -- a couple of those are really strikingly gorgeous.
 
One thing I respect about Germany is that theyre not afraid to rebuild old historic buildings that were demolished/bombed…etc. Some peoply decry that its phony or whatever, but its not really faux-historic when youre bringing back something that used to be there. As long as the same materials are used once youre on the ground its really the same thing. I really wish in certain circumstances we had the balls to do the same in the us. Penn station should absolutely be rebuilt, but that is not even one of 10 proposals. This is another example of when this 60’s tower uses up its structural life, itd be nice to see those buildings return. That would NEVER happen here though.
 
And why was this height permitted?

Remember, there was no historic protection just yet. It's probably developments like that that directly led to the creation of the historic district.
 

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