Boston Skyline Photos

Sending good thoughts and best wishes to your sister for a quick return to her usual good health.
 
thanks^ visiting my sister at MGH
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I wish your sister well. I just signed a lease for a place at the Longfellow towers (I can see my new balcony from one of your pics) so I'll have to submit some competing views. ;)
 
tysmith95 said:
Hate to say this but most of the downtown towers should not have been built. I would love if Boston was still like this picture from 1906.
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I'd miss the height they added, but other than that I wouldn't. One Beacon is a monstrosity, and don't get me started on The Black Hole (One Boston Place).
 
briv said:
A different kind of view, Mission Hill:
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What building did you take that from?
 
Hubman said:
I'd miss the height they added, but other than that I wouldn't. One Beacon is a monstrosity, and don't get me started on The Black Hole (One Boston Place).
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absolutely agreed re: one beacon, but i'm surprised there's any substantial hate for one boston. i get that not every style is going to be a given person's favorite, but with the bracing and the little hat i think it's as fine an example of structural expressionism as, say, chicago's hancock center -- if it was nearly as tall as the hancock maybe it'd stand out in a more positive way to more people?
 
^^this. i'm fine with the massing and the dark cladding of 1 Boston Pl. *in a perfect world, it would be satin instead of flat. i just want a dense ringed fence around the perimeter of the occupied floors' roof to shroud and mitigate the mechanical 'box'. Then light it up at night.
 
chrisbrat said:
absolutely agreed re: one beacon, but i'm surprised there's any substantial hate for one boston. i get that not every style is going to be a given person's favorite, but with the bracing and the little hat i think it's as fine an example of structural expressionism as, say, chicago's hancock center -- if it was nearly as tall as the hancock maybe it'd stand out in a more positive way to more people?
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It does remind me of John Hancock Center in Chicago because of the black cladding and the cross bracing.
 
i do agree it'd enhance that building if they under-lit the building's cap at night. ideally dark red, to keep with the darth vader-ness of the building.
 
chrisbrat said:
i do agree it'd enhance that building if they under-lit the building's cap at night. ideally dark red, to keep with the darth vader-ness of the building.
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Ha! I've always thought it looked like Darth Vader's secret headquarters.
 
I hate when people call Boston "tiny". Does this look like a small city to you?
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