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

[DZH22]

I'm pretty sure this is topped out in terms of floors and core. Appears to be 32 floors above the mechanical level. And the schematics in the PNF showed 32 floors above mech plus about two additional core stories.

So they only thing we are waiting on now is glass to catch up.

The schematics in the PNF were also for the 691' version, which was later raised to 699' plus mech. If you look there also appear to be more floors in that diagram (figure 2-13) below the first mech than in the finished product. In fact, you can see it even better if you rotate figure 2-14. There's 23 floors below the mech there, vs 20 in real life. It seems clear that there was a revision and it's not posted on the BRA's site.

I have counted the windows in some of the higher resolution renders and come up with 59. It's currently finishing forming floor 53. I expect the floors to fully catch up to the core (with the core possibly having 1 more floor to go), and then there should be a steel crown on top of ~2 stories to hide the mech.

We'll see who's right soon enough.

 

[stick n move]

Yea most of the renders have been wrong showing it rising to 691’-699’ total. Its going to be 699’ plus mech and it was floated around that total height would be 755’. It should end up being just slightly higher than the roof of the pru when topped out.

 

[DZH22]

From 6/11 Part 1 of 3. Click into any picture to view it larger.

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[DZH22]

From 6/11 Part 2 of 3. Click into any picture to view it larger.

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[DZH22]

From 6/11 Part 3 of 3. Click into any picture to view it larger.

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[Pheldy34]

Coming into Logan on Sunday:

 

[DZH22]

From 6/12. Click into any pic to view it larger.

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[BeeLine]

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[atlantaden]

For those of us who don't live in Boston, does she look as good in person as she does in the pics?

 

[DZH22]

For those of us who don't live in Boston, does she look as good in person as she does in the pics?

It looks even better in person!

 

[Beton Brut]

^ Better, actually.

For my money, this is the only truly great piece of work we'll see in this economic cycle. It makes Millennium Tower look like a garden shed.

 

[Justin7]

she

I know I'm a pedant, but this makes me cringe every time.

 

[HenryAlan]

For those of us who don't live in Boston, does she look as good in person as she does in the pics?

Yes.

 

[DZH22]

^ Better, actually.

For my money, this is the only truly great piece of work we'll see in this economic cycle. It makes Millennium Tower look like a garden shed.

There was really 1 opportunity for MT to eff up, which was with the roof, and they blew it spectacularly by leaving it open.

There's 1 opportunity for 1 Dalton to eff up, which is with the balconies. That remains to be seen but let's hope they have more sense and pride than Millennium did!

 

[JumboBuc]

https://flic.kr/p/28bjkGF

In the big picture I'm happy with what we're getting here, but I would love to see a neo-brutalist tower that's basically this without the cladding...

I find the leading cast-in-place portion to be so much more appealing than the glass.

 

[odurandina]

we can do with a little more Miami style.

but not sure where anyone won't fight it.

 

[stick n move]

Like the one in nyc? It looks okay idk how thatd go over here with how much brutalist we already have.

 

[chrisbrat]

boston has plenty of glass boxes -- in the seaport alone -- but we don't have one single example of a slender, curvy, sleek glass tower. if we *did* already have examples of that aesthetic, i could see making the argument for a semi-brutalist approach to 1 dalton, but as things are i'm glad it's being clad as it is.

 

[DZH22]

In the big picture I'm happy with what we're getting here, but I would love to see a neo-brutalist tower that's basically this without the cladding...

I find the leading cast-in-place portion to be so much more appealing than the glass.

I might be more inclined to agree with you if it was, say, the exact same looking glass used on Millennium Tower, or 111 Huntington, or the Hancock, or (insert anything in Boston here).... However, this glass really stands out and is unlike the cladding on any other building in the city. The vertical strips and rounded corners also work much better with the glass.

 

[Beton Brut]

Quoting myself from another thread:

There's a really specific reason why One Dalton "works." Henry Cobb returns to the geometry, grammar, and materials palate of his most famous tall building, (our) John Hancock Tower. And even though this new tower is roughly 700' tall, its shape and clean lines demure to the I.M. Pei's Christian Science Center. Great architecture is the result of thoughtfulness as well as imaginative form-making.

I find the leading cast-in-place portion to be so much more appealing than the glass.

It's really nice concrete, though more gray than the golden-sand color of the Pei's Christian Science Center.

...I would love to see a neo-brutalist tower...

And yet we're dulling the impact of a late-brutalist building with glass...

* I recall you being displeased about this plan.

One could argue that the new Brutalism is glass.