Boston Properties Office Tower | 888 Boylston Street | Back Bay

This is 307 feet to the top according to the FAA it is just kind of fat so it looks shorter than it is, but it is actually about 40 to 50 feet taller than the tallest buildings in the Seaport District.
 
goldenretrievers said:
they're installing an outdoor wooden deck in the back along with some turf; no pics at the moment
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Not sure if your referring to the same part, but theres going to be a bee hive colony (not sure the exact name) on the podium in the rear of this building. That is unless they changed it.
 
MY original comment is obviously one from someone who has just seen pictures. The roof is awful and the entrance looks odd too. I will concede that this is way better than the odd, terraced outdoor seating that was there years ago and it seems the building itself is made from high quality materials, which will look good in the end.

I think the presence of Eataly will be a huge game changer. The NYC location has no grand entrance, just a cramped door on Madison Sq Park and an odd side door on 23rd street. In short, no one will care about the outside, people will pack that place out 7 days a week.
 
Czervik.Construction said:
MY original comment is obviously one from someone who has just seen pictures. The roof is awful and the entrance looks odd too. I will concede that this is way better than the odd, terraced outdoor seating that was there years ago and it seems the building itself is made from high quality materials, which will look good in the end.

I think the presence of Eataly will be a huge game changer. The NYC location has no grand entrance, just a cramped door on Madison Sq Park and an odd side door on 23rd street. In short, no one will care about the outside, people will pack that place out 7 days a week.
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Big signage for Boston Eataly will be great. And agreed, I found it awkward how the NYC location is so confusing to get into. But it was PACKED. Total chaos. Eataly will fit right at home in the Pru.
 
This buildings like having an ugly girlfriend. Sure it's better than the vast emptiness and the loneliness before they were here but you look around and see more beautiful girls and wonder what could have been. On the bright side she's a hell of a cook.
 
They turned on the oscillating (?) lights at the crown this week fading from one color to an other color. It looks like a comic book. Which, is fitting. This building is a joke.
 
bbfen said:
This building is a joke.
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stick n move said:
Wind turbines, I cant even imagine how tacky that looks.
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Really? How is this project so bad? It is not a stunner but tacky? and a joke?

People have been trying to figure out a way to integrate renewable energy into the design of buildings for a while and this building is doing a decent job of trying to integrate wind power without just planting a tubine on the roof. Give the owners/designer some credit for actually trying to do something that I GUARANTEE is going to be something that every tall building will have to deal with in the coming years.

Secondly ..the lighting. They were just testing the lighting. How many comments have we heard on this board about how boring Boston is when it comes to how we light a project. They are going to light the crown ... it will change color from time to time because ...why not, it is just as cheap to have color shifting led's as it is to have static color ..so ... lets see how it goes.

I know everyone is all upset about the proportions of the building but it is not appropriate for every project (especially this one) to be super tall.

cca
 
I was referring to the changing lights shining on the spinning wind turbines, it probably looks pretty bad. Even nice buildings that don't just hold one color for the night usually look tacky. Pretty much every building going up right now is getting universal praise except this one so clearly something about it rubs people the wrong way, which is fine because overall were getting a lot of nice buildings. Not everyone has to like every building and not everyone has to hate every building, but luckily the overwhelming majority of development at the moment is pretty good. Your gonna get a dud every once in a while and this is it. Its not a big deal it'll be complete soon, fade into obscurity, and then well all divert our attention to 1 dalton, sst, the pierce, gcg, 1 brom...etc.
 
I saw the lights last night too...Kind of annoying how it rotates rainbow colors. Better than not being lit up. It would be cool if they picked a different color to stay on each night. Or just landed on blue every night or something.

With that said, I love the idea of this building -- filling in that useless plaza is huge. It was also a big catalyst to clean up the mall, food court, etc. Street level will be great and fresh.

But, I hate the roof. It's just ugly. Agreed that eco-friendly is good, etc. but not at the expense of ruining a piece of the skyline.

FINALLY, I think that as they finish it up, things are a looking a little better. Not a fan, but don't 100% hate it. It's just that roof that bothers me.
 
Its so fitting that they even fuck up the lighting on this. Of course they did. The ground level is good enough tho.
 
Justin7 said:
Extreme emphasis added by me because...
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For those of you who don't like the lit multicolored crown, you can hope they'll take a page from East Cambridge's Zinc strategy: lighting its three cylindrical crowns until they were *this sure* that no one would live there ... and then turn them off. </sarcasm>
 
Like I said before everyone has their own opinion and overwhelmingly support the majority of other developments. Its not a big deal.
 
cca said:
Really? How is this project so bad? It is not a stunner but tacky? and a joke?

People have been trying to figure out a way to integrate renewable energy into the design of buildings for a while and this building is doing a decent job of trying to integrate wind power without just planting a turbine on the roof. Give the owners/designer some credit for actually trying to do something that I GUARANTEE is going to be something that every tall building will have to deal with in the coming years.


cca
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CCA -- The basic problem with your impression of the transcendence of the 'integration of renewable energy into the design of buildings" is that coupling energy out of the wind field is not just the matter of putting some fans in a box -- sure they turn when the wind blows in the right direction

Like all airfoils or water foils for that matter in a fluid flow they create wakes of turbulence down stream which I presume is toward and along Boylston St. No one really knows how this thing will impact people on the sidewalks until its up and running

My prediction is that like the lights on Zinc -- it will only operate for a short time and then be mothballed
 
whighlander said:
CCA -- The basic problem with your impression of the transcendence of the 'integration of renewable energy into the design of buildings" is that coupling energy out of the wind field is not just the matter of putting some fans in a box -- sure they turn when the wind blows in the right direction

Like all airfoils or water foils for that matter in a fluid flow they create wakes of turbulence down stream which I presume is toward and along Boylston St. No one really knows how this thing will impact people on the sidewalks until its up and running

My prediction is that like the lights on Zinc -- it will only operate for a short time and then be mothballed
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Ok.
 
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