Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

In photo 7 of the globe gallery you can really see what a difference 30 Dalton made on this corner. It's forgettable filler, but it's a wonderful mirror, in this case at least.
 
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chrisbrat said:
at first i was thinking the globe had it wrong and that this couldn't be at 18 floors already, but: wrong, it is! three floors per two weeks sounds great. very excited about this one.
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Are they skipping floor numbers on this building? It's one trend I'd like to see go away for good.
 
Arborway said:
Are they skipping floor numbers on this building? It's one trend I'd like to see go away for good.
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Agreed. I get that superstition isn't a rational thing - but people have to know that floor 14 is really floor 13 right? Is that still comforting to them? I really don't understand the thought process.
 
FenwayResident said:
Agreed. I get that superstition isn't a rational thing - but people have to know that floor 14 is really floor 13 right? Is that still comforting to them? I really don't understand the thought process.
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Sometimes they do actually skip it (and use say 13 for internal stuff), but, yeah normally its so stupid. Anyways, they are skipping 4, 13, and 44 - Millennium I believe skipped 13 and 44.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...-just-floor/iCsdSSS709VcwO0sabwltO/story.html
 
As the article said, this habit may seem quaint to us Americans but it is a long and enduring tradition in Asian cultures. The Four Seasons, an important brand in that part of the world, understands its clients.
 
From Mass Ave/Mem Drive, 8/13:
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nm88 said:
As the article said, this habit may seem quaint to us Americans but it is a long and enduring tradition in Asian cultures. The Four Seasons, an important brand in that part of the world, understands its clients.
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Oh, I know. The amusing part to me, though, was that right before that article came out, they were saying that they were not catering to foreign/Chinese investors, and that the majority of the tower would go to local buyers, and then a few weeks later say how not only are they skipping 13 for westerners, but also 4 & 44 for foreign Chinese.
 
nm88 said:
As the article said, this habit may seem quaint to us Americans but it is a long and enduring tradition in Asian cultures. The Four Seasons, an important brand in that part of the world, understands its clients.
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Think about the irony of the statements. Skipping floors 4 and 44 as unlucky numbers (they sound like the word for death in Chinese), in a building branded Four Seasons.
 
JeffDowntown said:
Think about the irony of the statements. Skipping floors 4 and 44 as unlucky numbers (they sound like the word for death in Chinese), in a building branded Four Seasons.
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nm88 said:
I know. Go figure.
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The difference is that, even to a Mandarin speaker, "Four Seasons" will be pronounced "Four Seasons". It won't be translated into the Mandarin words for "four" and "seasons". But when referencing floor numbers, a Mandarin speaker would use the Mandarin word for "four".
 
That's some very nice looking glass there. Between this and Millennium we'll have two of the nicest looking residential towers anywhere imo.
 
JumboBuc said:
The difference is that, even to a Mandarin speaker, "Four Seasons" will be pronounced "Four Seasons". It won't be translated into the Mandarin words for "four" and "seasons". But when referencing floor numbers, a Mandarin speaker would use the Mandarin word for "four".
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The Chinese-Americans I know still consider four in English to be bad luck, even though it is spoken in English and not translated. I would suspect, given the English skill level in China, that would have to be something of an issue, even if not translated.

Also the Four Seasons Hotel Group, in their Chinese website, does in fact translate the name as 四季 -- four seasons. Pronounced Siji, which could be mistaken as death season. So I still don't get the success factor of the brand with Chinese.
 
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