Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Van Ness) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

[kz1000ps]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

The only thing that hits a wrong note for me is the black box in the middle, which could use a cornice or something to balance out the heavy frames around those three big picture windows. Otherwise I'm really liking what I'm seeing.

 

[cca]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I love the massing of this project ... but the materials and detailing are not helping. It is feeling like every other cheap box with the Luxury tag slapped on it. A real shame. They really should have looked at 314 on A as a guide. In my opinion of course.

cca

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I agree. I am also tired of the mishmash of different design elements. It's been done and it's been done better. This is not terrible but I'm tired of it.

 

[Max Power]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I love the massing of this project ... but the materials and detailing are not helping. It is feeling like every other cheap box with the Luxury tag slapped on it. A real shame. They really should have looked at 314 on A as a guide. In my opinion of course.

cca

Massing is absolutely spectacular here.

I think that the glass (half?) of the building is well done... wish they stuck with that design with the rest of it. Reminds me of a building I saw in Warsaw... can't remember the name of it.

Still... I love the smell of new streetwall in the morning..

 

[coleslaw]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I wish the glass part was 30 stories taller. Am I the only one who thinks it would make a great skyscraper?

 

[fattony]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I wish the glass part was 30 stories taller. Am I the only one who thinks it would make a great skyscraper?

Maybe with a setback at the current roof, you could tack more tower on. Like a mini Trump International.

Honestly though, I think it is fine as-is. The density created in this corridor will be plenty lively. If we could line every major street and boulevard in Boston with buildings like this one, I wouldn't need to see another high-rise ever.

 

[coleslaw]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Maybe with a setback at the current roof, you could tack more tower on. Like a mini Trump International.

Honestly though, I think it is fine as-is. The density created in this corridor will be plenty lively. If we could line every major street and boulevard in Boston with buildings like this one, I wouldn't need to see another high-rise ever.

Agreed about the density but something about this makes me want to see it stretched out.

 

[393b40]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I like it just the way it is. One of my new favorites in the city.

 

[Brad Plaid]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Good (not great) as far as it goes. The size of the podium though promises a much taller tower than it delivers.

 

[akmags]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Good (not great) as far as it goes. The size of the podium though promises a much taller tower than it delivers.

Don't forget, the podium is a 170,000 sq/ft target....

 

[Mongo]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Apparently construction material has been blowing off this thing.

http://www.universalhub.com/2015/construction-material-blown-about-paper-trees

https://twitter.com/josephcouture/status/577977759399587840

 

[DigitalSciGuy]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Wow, this has really come a long way! I've been watching on the live webcam for about 3 years, now - at my last job, I swapped between the construction cam for this and WTC on a spare monitor as my 'window' since I worked on the 8th floor of 33 Arch with a window facing directly into 31 Milk.

What're they doing right now with the sidewalk in front of the office portion? Is that waterproofing for the garage below or something? I don't recall seeing that being done for the residential side...or maybe I wasn't tuned in when they were doing it.

 

[elemenoh]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

What're they doing right now with the sidewalk in front of the office portion?

I walked by today and they are filling the sidewalk with soil - presumably these are tree pits for future street trees. In your photo you can see the brown section at the left of the sidewalk where the soil is already spread.

 

[xec]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

 

[DigitalSciGuy]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I don't think I've ever been this excited to see the inside of a Target. I've been to 'urban' K-Marts in Manhattan like the one at Penn Station, but they're not really anything special. The only Target that I know of in Manhattan is in an inappropriately-placed suburban-style mall up on 116th in East Harlem that is more suited to the fringes of Queens or Brooklyn; to that end I don't think it has any special branding.

I'm interested to see how CityTarget will use the space inside since apparently we'll be the first on the east coast to have one.

 

[Galactic]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

The City Target in Chicago is awesome - complete historical renovation and great pedestrian access. It really works well:

The also kept/renovated the existing interior detailing:

Overall I have high hopes for this one.

 

[Tombstoner]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Is that the old Carson Pirie Scott building?

 

[Galactic]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

Is that the old Carson Pirie Scott building?

Yes - although I knew it as the Sullivan Center when I worked above the Target in the gallery space up there. Beautiful full-height showroom windows!

 

[Arborway]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

I really like the red and grey wing. Something about it just works for me.

Target is based in downtown Minneapolis, with a store on the ground floor and offices above. They know better than most big box chains how to make their urban stores feel like they belong in the neighborhood.

 

[kz1000ps]

Re: Boylston West @ Fenway Triangle (Goodyear Tire) | 1325 Boylston Street | Fenway

It's a lot darker than I was expecting, but I do like it. However the materials quality is pretty ehhh.