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Materials are flying off 888 Boylston (unknown if it is elements on the building itself or if it's materials on the roof falling):

Falling debris closes Boylston, part of Gloucester Street in Boston

Posted: Mar 01, 2016 8:38 AM
Updated: Mar 01, 2016 8:38 AM

BOSTON (WHDH) -
Part of Boylston Street is closed down because of falling debris and glass from a building that is under construction.

This is between Hereford and Fairfield Street.

Part of Gloucester Street is also closed right now.

http://www.whdh.com/story/31352277/...edium=social&utm_source=facebook_7NEWS_-_WHDH
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I look down over the roof there from the pru tower. There's a lot of equipment and junk up there, probably wasn't tethered well enough in yesterday's wind. Oops!
 
Materials are flying off 888 Boylston (unknown if it is elements on the building itself or if it's materials on the roof falling):
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Ahh, I wondered what was going on yesterday. I live near the corner of Fairfield/Comm. Ave and the area was roped off with police tape when I left for work yesterday around 7:30am.

Seems like build/design quality might be an issue here. As I noted in a previous comment, the recessed lights in the revolving doors drip when it rains.
 
You ain't seen Nuttin Yet -- Wait until some ice is hurled through some window by the Wind Energy installation

or later in the season people start finding bird sushi
 
DZH22 said:
Tear it down! :)
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i wouldnt shed a tear if they looked up at it one day and were like yup this sux and told the workers to do everything they just did in reverse until it was gone.
 
All that scaffolding on the roof and bottom...is that the way its meant to look?
 
The only reason why I don't really like this building is because it looks like what would've happened if they ran out of money in the middle of constructing Atlantic Wharf and had to stop at 16(?) floors. It's short and stumpy.
 
Look at beelines first picture 5 posts up. None of the glass makes sense, that western side literally looks like the building is still loading in a Doom game from 95, the whole top 3rd of the building sits off center towards the front of the building, the aluminum metal in the glass doesn't match the windmill metal at all, was going to point out why the crown is terrible but didn't want to type a 500 word essay. The thing for me is when you go crazy and try to make a building unique and very busy it better be better than a glass box. If you do all of that and a plain glass box would have looked 100 times better then you wasted your time. This building is wasting my time typing about it, whoever designed this monstrosity, whoever is paying for it, and whoever thought they were going to get some quality when they hired these people. It looks fine though when you are really far away.
 
Maybe it'll just take some getting used to, but I really don't like the way this building looks from Cambridge and the River. It doesn't play well with its neighbors. I feel like other recent additions to the High Spine have only improved this view. 888, for some reason, doesn't seem to fit in...

DZH22 said:
From 2/21

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^I think part of the reason it doesn't seem to fit is that it's easily the most saturated thing in that entire photo. It's a very blue piece of a relatively dark skyline.

Could it have used some tweaking? Yes. A little bit more height? Yes. Regardless, I still like it.
 
I like how it looks from that angle. It's a nice building, imo. It added some much needed glass to that low level cluster of towers on the Back Bay skyline. With FS, Copley, and eventually the Samuels highrise, it won't stand out as much as it does now. It will just blend into the background the same way the rest of those surrounding towers do.
 
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The penthouse facade isn't done either, so it looks jarring against the glass on the floors below. What I see in that picture is just an unfinished building, which is ok because... wait for it... this is an unfinished building.
 
Don't hate it... just can't distinguish between the plan and the punchlist.
 
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