Best Modern Building Under 100 Meters

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What's your favorite building of the last 20-30 years in Boston or its inner suburbs that is under 100 meters (328')? Pictures are welcome.

My personal favorite is Mass Art Treehouse but I'm hoping the red one with the overhangs in Kenmore can steal the crown. In the meantime, this one always knocks my socks off. I don't think it would work at too much taller though. Could Boston support a 600'+ building that looks like this?

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In this category, I like the new Somerville High School. Contemporary and interesting, with very clean lines.
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DZH22 said:
What's your favorite building of the last 20-30 years in Boston or its inner suburbs that is under 100 meters (328')? Pictures are welcome.

My personal favorite is Mass Art Treehouse but I'm hoping the red one with the overhangs in Kenmore can steal the crown. In the meantime, this one always knocks my socks off. I don't think it would work at too much taller though. Could Boston support a 600'+ building that looks like this?

IMG_3156 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_3157 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_3327 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_3328 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_3336 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_3337 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_3339 by David Z, on Flickr
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The facade diagram for that thing is sort of neat. Also surprise, it's a vertical rainbow inside.
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I actually really really dislike the colors of the panels they chose (I don't care what tree-form they call it, it's still an ugly color palette. Orange can stay, the rest don't work). And the way they're recessed/extended isn't right - very cheap looking.

But the proportions are spot on. Given how often something tall and somewhat slender gets built around here, total win.

I've always thought this tower in Fenway was a terrible sort of knock-off of it:
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I think 212 Stuart St has potential to be my favorite at this scale once it's complete. But man, trying to run through others in Boston that have a lot of architectural merit had me disappointed...

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The Bolling building in Roxbury is nice as well. Has a different kind of presence, more engrained and grafted, than these more standalone ones.

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#bancars said:
All good mentions thus far. I'm partial to the Gables Seaport building:
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A little bit surprised by that one.

Bananarama said:
I've always thought this tower in Fenway was a terrible sort of knock-off of it:
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Hah, I like this tower a lot.

Blackbird said:
Absolutely this new-ish one at Devonshire and Quaker:
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Definitely... that whole remodel and expansion came out fantastically.

Personally I like One Seaport and The Anthony's Pier 4 replacement building.
 
Ooh ok when I looked it said 290' but thats probably its pre mech floor cheater height we see so often for anti nimby measures.
 
stick n move said:
Ooh ok when I looked it said 290' but thats probably its pre mech floor cheater height we see so often for anti nimby measures.
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Exactly. It's even drawn wrong on the diagrams because we figured it out later. They left out the whole top portion from the originally stated height!
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Blackbird said:
Absolutely this new-ish one at Devonshire and Quaker:

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What's really neat about that to me is that it's the same use/controlling entity--hotel operator--spanning both the original early 1900s building and the new building they put up on that previously empty parcel.

(As opposed to, say, a totally new office tower put up abutting an early 1900s office tower, but both owned by separate landlords/developers, and thus both alienated from each other than what their side-by-side facades communicate to the outside world)

I'm guessing that hotel guests have no clue, as they're traversing one of the corridors that span both buildings, when they've crossed the threshold from the old building to the new one... or would they? (would the architect/interior decorator have left "easter eggs" that subtly or not-so-subtly indicate when a guest has crossed the threshold?)
 
Definitely, for me, the Mass Art Treehouse (DZ posted great pics) and the pier 4 Condo building. It’s a most unusual landscaper type building with a variety of materials, textures, and angles. It basically stands alone, seemingly jutting out over the harbor exposed on three sides, plus being surrounded by the new harbor Walk addition which adds to it’s interest.
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I had never noticed that was a pomo building before, interesting.
 
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