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Behold this piece of crap! I always wondered what they were thinking with these white/grey panels near the top. It looks unfinished. Never mind that the windmills aren't there anymore either! Not only is it an eyesore in a vacuum, but it blocked off the "big city" money shot of the Pru with 111 Huntington from Boylston, as well as blocking the Hancock from a surprising amount of views. The ground level is cool, but the building itself coupled with its placement is visually atrocious.

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DZH22 said:
Behold this piece of crap! I always wondered what they were thinking with these white/grey panels near the top. It looks unfinished. Never mind that the windmills aren't there anymore either! Not only is it an eyesore in a vacuum, but it blocked off the "big city" money shot of the Pru with 111 Huntington from Boylston, as well as blocking the Hancock from a surprising amount of views. The ground level is cool, but the building itself coupled with its placement is visually atrocious.
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Seriously, who looked at that and said "yes, this looks good"? Is it secretly a spite building put up by an architect dismayed that they didn't get the opportunity to design a real skyscraper or something? 🙃
 
vanshnookenraggen said:
Why did they remove the windmills?
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They kept breaking (see here, courtesy of DZH, and zoom in). I have no idea if the removal is permanent or not, but they've been gone a long time after initially trying to repair them after each of the early breakages). The (already shitty) aesthetic of this ginormous mechanical penthouse becomes horrendous with the windmill-less windmill mounts still in place. But the saddest part, by far, is this is a rare and extraordinarily painful case of whighlander actually being right about something (he was whining at the time that this was meaningless greenwashing and the windmills would never be effective). A double whammy of crappiness here.
For aB's excellent documentation of this wind turbine drama, see +/- several posts from here.
 
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If the devil himself tells you the truth it doesn't make it a lie. But you should wonder why he is telling a truth
 
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