Avalon Exeter | 77 Exeter Street | Back Bay

[DZH22]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

You can see the crane where it will slip into the skyline

 

[Officejab]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

http://bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2012/12/hub’s_resolution_get_taller_’13

AVALON EXETER
40% COMPLETE

Location: 88 Exeter St., Back Bay
Details: $100 million, 28 stories, 187 luxury rental units, opening early 2014

40% ????

Haven't seen this pic posted before

 

[type001]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

That's a typo. They forget the leading decimal in front of the four.

Must be an old model. CC is there but no Copley Place.

 

[datadyne007]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

Heh, 888 Boylston is in that model too.

 

[bbfen]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

I've seen this model before, wasn't it from their own very early proposal pre: Copley Place?

40 percent sounds a little optimistic but not much. The pilings have been upgraded, the pit is waterproofed and they're two of the biggest challenges right?

 

[bblancha]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

Another stump. 500 footer needed here to punch through boston's stumpy skyline. Fail.

 

[Padre Mike]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

Stumpiness is all in one's perspective. If all we do is look at a city from afar to check out it's skyline, then we're missing the point of what buildings are meant to do for a city, besides create another Hong Kong or Dubai. If we look at Boston pre-war we find a very even skyline, save for a few newer buildings like United Shoe, the Custom House, the Post Office and the older Hancock. Yet the rest of the city was rich in detail from relatively insignificant buildings that later got torn down for super-structures like most of the awful bank buildings downtown. I'm more concerned with street level, with blank facades, open truck and parking entrances, a lack of retail, puny entrances, empty plazas, and Sears catalog architecture (mass produced).

 

[czsz]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

They're not mutually exclusive aesthetic preferences. A stump can kill a street level vista, too, by terminating a street in a wall rather than a spire. A sky crowded out with ugliness was not a problem Olde Boston had to contend with.

 

[kz1000ps]

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[AdamBC]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

"Deshi basara! Deshi basara!"
"What does that mean?"
"Rise."

 

[kz1000ps]

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[BeeLine]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center


Exeter Tower 1/17

 

[tmac9wr]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

FINALLY!

 

[kz1000ps]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

Agreed, tmac, this one's been a long time coming!

 

[jpdibenedetto]

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Nobody will want to move into the Kensington after this is completed.

 

[BeeLine]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

Steel is starting to apear above gound level.

Exeter Tower 1:27

 

[Boston02124]

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[PaulC]

888 Boyston Street

888 Boylston may be the lattest back from the dead:

Meanwhile, Boston Properties is in talks with a potential tenant for 888 Boylston St., a long-planned 17-story office building between the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Hynes Convention Center that would be the final piece of the Prudential Center.

http://bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2013/01/building_plans_take_root_garden

 

[Boston02124]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

lets hope its 17 floors and not the 11 it was cut down too!~

 

[jdrinboston]

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center

Is this the plaza in between the Pru Entrance and Hynes?? I never realized that spot was slated for a building