Crane Pix Past and Present

[datadyne007]

Let me just throw this out there. I am really excited about all the construction going on in Boston, right now. We are "Crane City" (is this a term that a bunch of cities use, have you heard it elsewhere?).

But, I'm a petty person, and for some reason I worry that being positive and supportive of the city in any way would be misinterpreted by people as complimenting the Mayor. Perhaps that's just my own bizarre thought process, but it's also a perverse situation where he is so intertwined with the city that you can't separate the two.

Am I off base here? Does anyone feel similar?

He gets things developed, but just not to the optimal urban potential -- ie. Fan Pier and One Marina Park Drive.

Crane = Building
Crane ≠ Great building

 

[Boston02124]

spotted this guy down there also

 

[Boston02124]

Brighton,this building has now been topped off.

Fan Pier from So. Bay

NH

LM

 

[Boston02124]

from the T

South Boston

Wash. st

Berkley

Camb. crane in the background

LM

 

[whighlander]

More cranes
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[BostonUrbEx]

May showers bring June cranes.

 

[Boston02124]

they sure do! Any other american cities having a mini boom like Boston/Camb.?,Skyscraperterpage is not up to date,today from Mt Auburn>

 

[Boston02124]

cambridge's turn

one for Boston>

 

[whighlander]

Nothing like a fresh "crane shot" in the morning to get you erect and excited at the prospects of another fine day

keep-em-commin! :=}

 

[DZH22]

they sure do! Any other american cities having a mini boom like Boston/Camb.?

If you mean this many cranes without a single noteworthy project among them (except maybe Fatiron?), I would say no, I don't think this has ever happened, and probably never will again. If you mean actual booms, NYC is in the middle (or even earlier stages) of a really good one, Austin is about to enter its second major boom in the last 7-8 years, and to expand out of the US (you did just say "american" after all) we have Panama City's ugliness to the south, and IMO, most impressive of all, Toronto to the north. When I visited Toronto in 2002, the skyline barely impressed me compared to Boston. Now, they are currently building the equivalent of the entire Boston skyline! Check this out, and keep in mind it doesn't include everything finished in the last few years, and all the proposals that are expected to be built because this city GETS THINGS DONE! http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=55124247

In Boston, the cranes end up being taller and more impressive than the buildings themselves. Nevertheless, nice updates and keep them coming!

 

[whighlander]

If you mean this many cranes without a single noteworthy project among them (except maybe Fatiron?), I would say no, I don't think this has ever happened, and probably never will again......
In Boston, the cranes end up being taller and more impressive than the buildings themselves. Nevertheless, nice updates and keep them coming!

DHZ -- you have to put things in the proper perspective -- its all about what ends-up in the buildings that the cranes are building:

Yesterday morning at her final opening remarks for Technology Day -- MIT's annual reunion and reconnection for Alums from 0th to 70th Class -- Susan Hockfield, "President and Professor of Neuroscience" -- retiring 16th President of MIT -- positively gushed (nearly inappropriately for a family audience) -- "Have you seen the CRANES -- there are two cranes towering over the Institute... Novartis and Pfizer.... You must see the CRANES"

below you see an a bit more sedate President Hockfield, as she addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, last winter after being named by President Obama to be the co-chair of the new US Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP).

 

[Boston02124]

Fan Pier from Dorchester ave

 

[Boston02124]

^ Cambridge needs a few tall towers,it's skyline is also dated.

 

[Boston02124]

today

 

[whighlander]

Driving into the SPID on the Pike this AM -- somewhere near to Fenway Park -- I saw what appeared to be a small crane high up on 111 Huntington (on the side closest to the Pru itself) -- couldn't get a picture of it

Has anyone seen it and does anyone know why it is there?

even better has anyone taken a Pru picture in the last couple of days that might show it?

 

[choo]

berkley college of music?

 

[Boston02124]

being lazy again! today here and there Berkley

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LM

camb

So Boston/Broadway sta.

Fan pier

Kensington

mil plc still no crane

 

[Boston02124]

 

[Boston02124]

today

 

[Boston02124]

today

showing the core