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The lighting I would imagine will be coming to a theater near you soon. Going to make the view coming into the city even better at night.
 
i wuz gonna say that 4 or wuz it 5 months ago.

sigh.

that amazing picture above.... if someone had shown this (to me) as a render 10 years ago, or a few years before the Big Dig was proposed....

and that we're getting 3 (or possibly 4) more; each going taller,

i'd have been remiss to believe it.
 
stick n move said:
The lighting I would imagine will be coming to a theater near you soon. Going to make the view coming into the city even better at night.
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Do we have confirmation that the areas we hope will be lit will, in fact, be lit? I ask b/c I bike past it daily and have seen that, under certain weather conditions, some of the areas that we hope will be lit reflect well the light around them and certainly look lit. One evening I thought they were.

I saw one of the occupied units lit tonight, too (facing north, perhaps on the sixth floor - nice place!).

Happy either way - it is a well done addition to the area.
 
ivyhedge said:
Do we have confirmation that the areas we hope will be lit will, in fact, be lit?
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I haven't really dug through pdf's on this one, but this is what we have to go off of so far: Looks like led line up the side, the window boxes seem to be lit, and the top of the crown, along with something on the left side that looks like some flood lights on other parts of the crown/base as well.

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The city should add some sort of a clause preventing huge now leasing signs from being on towers. It's ugly in my opinion.
 
tysmith95 said:
The city should add some sort of a clause preventing huge now leasing signs from being on towers. It's ugly in my opinion.
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And you're entitled to it.
I also think a developer who drops 100's of millions of dollars has a right to advertise as best as possible to recoup that investment.
 
SeamusMcFly said:
And you're entitled to it.
I also think a developer who drops 100's of millions of dollars has a right to advertise as best as possible to recoup that investment.
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They only last for a short time. I tend to agree that the developer deserves to announce the availability.
 
Those benches are perfect examples of unpleasant design.
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-hostile-urban-architecture/

"A bench which fails to be comfortable and flexible, for example, can still be a successful design … if the designer intends for it to be an uncomfortable place to spend long periods of time. Unpleasant designs take many shapes, but they share a common goal of exerting some kind of social control in public or in publicly-accessible private spaces."
 
aka keep the homeless from sleeping on them... I think these are more just design features as there are 'normal' benches or more like concrete slabs where homeless could sleep
 
Suffolk 83 said:
aka keep the homeless from sleeping on them... I think these are more just design features as there are 'normal' benches or more like concrete slabs where homeless could sleep
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Suffolk -- when you look at the "benches" in their location -- I think these are "Security Features" masquerading as "Design Features" masquerading as "benches"

I suspect that they are there to prevent or obstruct a large vehicle from driving under the Tower for nefarious purposes -- the "Tunnel" is adjacent to both the TD Garden and the O'Neill Federal Building
 
I feel like I've seen this on here but I couldn't find it. I had to rip it to make it smaller because it was 4000 pixels and safari crashed after I screen shotted it so I dont know the source. Either way here it is.

 
Some of the night lighting is active now. It is BRIGHT.

Pardon the crappy photo, but it should give you an idea.

 
Saw that yesterday as I was heading for my train. Could not see any lighting feature on the north side as we pulled out, but some of Bos 02124 pic's show a long strip running down the NW section of the tower. We can only hope.

https://flic.kr/p/PpZ1Pc
 
whighlander said:
Suffolk -- when you look at the "benches" in their location -- I think these are "Security Features" masquerading as "Design Features" masquerading as "benches"

I suspect that they are there to prevent or obstruct a large vehicle from driving under the Tower for nefarious purposes -- the "Tunnel" is adjacent to both the TD Garden and the O'Neill Federal Building
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Why not just simple bollards? These things are only inviting, not homeless, but skateboarders and their nasty wax. In time the anti-boarder clips along the edges will be broken off.
 
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