Future Skyline

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This is going to be a hell of a view from cambridge/the charles, mass ave bridge. Combine this with the full sweep over to downtown with all of its new glory and we have a winner. You dont even notice 888 boylston anymore either.
 
Thanks - these are great.

Also: You dont even notice 888 boylston anymore either. THANK GOD
 
stick n move said:
more sloppy but effective rendering



This is going to be a hell of a view from cambridge/the charles, mass ave bridge. Combine this with the full sweep over to downtown with all of its new glory and we have a winner. You dont even notice 888 boylston anymore either.
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Stick -- Exactly -- see my other post about your harbor view -- also nice but lacking that je ne sais quois of the River View.
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And the river venue has the major advantage of reciprocity -- you can't get a view from Boston of Easty that compares to MIT from the Esplanade or the Pru
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Is there any place in Boston that could have a future 1000 ft plus skyscraper without problems from the FAA?
 
tysmith95 said:
That's not Boston though.
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TySnith -- I think the question was posed in more generic terms than just the city limits of Boston as in Wynn Boston Harbor in Everett Although perhaps a bit more restrictive than Manchester-Boston Airport -- perhaps closer to Westin Waltham-Boston.

So the term Boston is a bit in the eye of the beholder -- and in most discussions of building 1000 ft towers -- Kendall Sq, in Cambridge would certainly qualify as "Boston" except at the minutiae level.
 
whighlander said:
TySnith -- I think the question was posed in more generic terms than just the city limits of Boston as in Wynn Boston Harbor in Everett Although perhaps a bit more restrictive than Manchester-Boston Airport -- perhaps closer to Westin Waltham-Boston.

So the term Boston is a bit in the eye of the beholder -- and in most discussions of building 1000 ft towers -- Kendall Sq, in Cambridge would certainly qualify as "Boston" except at the minutiae level.
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He's referring to Boston the city limit and that is not in the eye of the beholder.
 
KentXie said:
He's referring to Boston the city limit and that is not in the eye of the beholder.
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I think it's pretty easy to argue that Kendall is Boston. (or the whole rest of Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, maybe Chelsea) Kendall also has the ability to go 1000', and its skyline is a continuous part of the overall skyline. Waltham clearly is not Boston.
 
This is easy.

Can you vote for the mayor of Boston if you live there?
No? Not Boston
Yes? Boston.
 
Dallton st garage. But the most probable answer to the question is nowhere. Probably never going to happen. If it does in 20 years feel free to quote this and tell me Im wrong.
 
DZH22 said:
I think it's pretty easy to argue that Kendall is Boston. (or the whole rest of Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, maybe Chelsea) Kendall also has the ability to go 1000', and its skyline is a continuous part of the overall skyline. Waltham clearly is not Boston.
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No, city limit is the actual city limit. It's not an arbitrary limit to be argued over.
 
statler said:
This is easy.

Can you vote for the mayor of Boston if you live there?
No? Not Boston
Yes? Boston.
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It's semantics. Other major cities all incorporated their suburbs. Some of them are literally 10x+ the "size" of Boston in square miles. On a national scale, Cambridge is Boston, period.

So Cambridge/Brookline/Somerville resisted having their borders officially be part of Boston. BFD. Are they all part of the same heavy rail transit line? (without needing to use the "commuter rail" part) Yes? Boston.

Considering we are talking about a SKYLINE perspective, who gives a crap about voting rights? A 1000' tower in Kendall is a 1000' addition to the "Boston skyline." PERIOD, END OF STORY.
 
DZH22 said:
I think it's pretty easy to argue that Kendall is Boston. (or the whole rest of Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, maybe Chelsea) Kendall also has the ability to go 1000', and its skyline is a continuous part of the overall skyline. Waltham clearly is not Boston.
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Using that metric you could argue that St Paul is part of Minneapolis, or that Ft. Worth is part of Dallas. You could also say that Oakland is part of San Francisco. Cambridge is not part of Boston, however it is part of the Boston urban area.

DZH22 said:
Considering we are talking about a SKYLINE perspective, who gives a crap about voting rights? A 1000' tower in Kendall is a 1000' addition to the "Boston skyline." PERIOD, END OF STORY.
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It would be a 1000 addition to the CAMBRIDGE skyline.
 
tysmith95 said:
Using that metric you could argue that St Paul is part of Minneapolis, or that Ft. Worth is part of Dallas. You could also say that Oakland is part of San Francisco. Cambridge is not part of Boston, however it is part of the Boston urban area.



It would be a 1000 addition to the CAMBRIDGE skyline.
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No you can't. Those aren't literally RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER with no clear break in the skyline. Those are separated by miles of suburbia.
 
DZH22 said:
It's semantics. Other major cities all incorporated their suburbs. Some of them are literally 10x+ the "size" of Boston in square miles. On a national scale, Cambridge is Boston, period.

So Cambridge/Brookline/Somerville resisted having their borders officially be part of Boston. BFD. Are they all part of the same heavy rail transit line? (without needing to use the "commuter rail" part) Yes? Boston.

Considering we are talking about a SKYLINE perspective, who gives a crap about voting rights? A 1000' tower in Kendall is a 1000' addition to the "Boston skyline." PERIOD, END OF STORY.
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By that mantra, Long Island, half of Connecticut, and Northern New Jersey is NYC. There's a reason there's a separate category for them (aka the metropolitan region).
 
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