Boston Landing | New Balance Complex | Brighton

[kz1000ps]

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Have they started any work on the sports complex/Bruins practice facility yet? I would think with the Bruins on board that they would be pushing that along ASAP although perhaps the Bruins still have a few years left on their lease in Wilmington.

Nope. Right now it's just a staging area with lots of granite curbstones.

 

[shmessy]

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Cruise ships are basically just floating landscrapers anyway.

Maybe we can push The Victor out to sea.

 

[atlantaden]

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The Victor, the Murano, Trilogy, Avenir and all the rest of the 'landscapers have added quite a bit of life to the streetscape and vibrancy of the neighborhoods with their thousands of square feet of street level retail. They seem to fit the bill when highrises are not feasible. If they were similar to the Transportation Building as far as looks, I could understand but the architects made a point of trying to add different textures, materials, indentations, etc. to not make the buildings seem so monotonous.

 

[shmessy]

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The Victor, the Murano, Trilogy, Avenir and all the rest of the 'landscapers have added quite a bit of life to the streetscape and vibrancy of the neighborhoods with their thousands of square feet of street level retail. They seem to fit the bill when highrises are not feasible. If they were similar to the Transportation Building as far as looks, I could understand but the architects made a point of trying to add different textures, materials, indentations, etc. to not make the buildings seem so monotonous.

"They seem to fit the bill when highrises are not feasible."

I'll give you Trilogy and the New Balance HQ, but I am interested to hear your reasoning why or when highrises are not "feasible" in the North Station area.

THAT is the point. This HQ for New Balance fits its area well. Allston/Brighton should not have skyscrapers. Same with Trilogy in the Fenway. But, I'm sorry, I don't agree with that one size fits all statement when it applies to other areas like North Station.

 

[stick n move]

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Kinda weird looking but its unique in a non offensive way so I like it.

 

[datadyne007]

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I am interested to hear your reasoning why or when highrises are not "feasible" in the North Station area.

Um, they're not physically feasible. Under the Victor, Merano, etc are the Orange Line, Green Line, AND the Big Dig to varying extents. It's not economically feasible to build a skyscraper on those parcels because of the extreme degree of engineering that would be required to provide the proper support structure for a skyscraper, not to mention all of the impacts that closing these various pieces of infrastructure would have in order to prep the structure. The cost of the engineering would far outweigh any income the building would generate.

This isn't SimCity. You can't just plop skyscrapers wherever you feel like.

 

[davem]

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Facade's moving along

 

[F-Line to Dudley]

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Kinda weird looking but its unique in a non offensive way so I like it.

Driving in on the Pike it's already striking enough in steel skeleton form for you to do a "Whoa!" when you see it looming in the distance. That thing's going to be an iconic gateway to Boston landmark for out-of-towners coming in from the west.

 

[JeffDowntown]

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Facade's moving along

This is actually a clever long-range plan for climate change by New Balance, to prepare for sea level rise.

When the harbor reaches in to Brighton, they are ready to set sail!

 

[Matthew]

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We all laughed at the name "Boston Landing" but they will get the last laugh!

 

[cden4]

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Why do all the new buildings have to have facades that look like a 1950s high school?

 

[davem]

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Why do all the new buildings have to have facades that look like a 1950s high school?

It's not that bad in real life. The opaque panels are actually white, they just reflect the blue sky. In contrast to the white stained buildings in the seaport, this building will probably look better on cloudy days.

 

[George_Apley]

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Never seen a '50s high school with a glass facade.

 

[kz1000ps]

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[Matthew]

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BTW, Guest Street is buzzing with construction work even after dark.

The ship is all lit up at night too.

 

[Deetroyt]

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I really like this rendering, think this place will look very cool when done. I wonder if that is what the actual plans are for the future T stop to look like, or if thats just an artist's rendering of the station?

 

[F-Line to Dudley]

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I really like this rendering, think this place will look very cool when done. I wonder if that is what the actual plans are for the future T stop to look like, or if thats just an artist's rendering of the station?

They're supposed to be paying for the station building--everything but the platforms and standard T-specification station features that the T's own engineering dept. has to oversee. So that might be an accurate depiction of where design currently stands. The renders have varied over time, though, so it might be an evolving concept.


Pretty much their canvas to do as they please. And their glass to regularly clean, unlike some of the T's other pigeon shit -magnet headhouse excess.

 

[statler]

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Well, if you are going to make a landscraper, it might as well be an interesting one, I guess

 

[fattony]

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It still makes me crave a rum drink and free salsa lessons.

 

[FK4]

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Whether or not that IS in fact the design for the station, it's fitting that the giant "T" logo is not backlit, but it should be - the T so grossly underadvertizes itself it's heartbreaking. Notice how in suburbs, and on Rt 128, the signs are tiny and obscure. One thing that might seriously boost ridership on commuter rail in general would be big, attractive signage advertizing the stations themselves.

I really like this rendering, think this place will look very cool when done. I wonder if that is what the actual plans are for the future T stop to look like, or if thats just an artist's rendering of the station?