Lyra (née The Huntington) | 252/258/264 Huntington Avenue | Fenway

Lightning43 said:
Sprinkle these around Back Bay and Downtown and we got ourselves a sustainable city. I like to think of more high-rises in a reformed West End, but that's another force to be dealt with.
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Why stop there? Huntington Avenue and the Green Line E-Branch have slowly demonstrated what a truly transit-oriented development corridor looks like when you leverage the transit availability and walkability of the corridor.

Every single rapid transit corridor throughout the city--and region--should be greeted with the same level of high rise residential zoning as of right. Forest Hills, Cleveland Circle, Wellington, Orient Heights, Davis Square, Maverick, Dean Street, Community College, Fields Corner, Newton Highlands, Wollaston, Savin Hill, and, yes, even the West End--the status quo built environment is insufficient to address the housing shortage, and communities need to reduce as many barriers as possible to foster up to this level of development to address our housing shortage.
 
dshoost88 said:
Why stop there? Huntington Avenue and the Green Line E-Branch have slowly demonstrated what a truly transit-oriented development corridor looks like when you leverage the transit availability and walkability of the corridor.

Every single rapid transit corridor throughout the city--and region--should be greeted with the same level of high rise residential zoning as of right. Forest Hills, Cleveland Circle, Wellington, Orient Heights, Davis Square, Maverick, Dean Street, Community College, Fields Corner, Newton Highlands, Wollaston, Savin Hill, and, yes, even the West End--the status quo built environment is insufficient to address the housing shortage, and communities need to reduce as many barriers as possible to foster up to this level of development to address our housing shortage.
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You actually cannot build like this up much of the Blue Line corridor -- Logan airspace restrictions are really tight there. That is why the Suffolk Downs proposals are so modest in height.
 
June 1, 2025:

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Really love the juxtaposition of the smaller building on the left with this one.
 
i’m loving on the new views that this building is creating! moved away from this area last year — walking in the area will sure be a new experience when the building is finished
 
FK4 said:
Of course there’s three parked cars in the bus lane
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Of the ones I can see though, I can excuse 2/3? Photo 1, that car is in the segment marked for right turns and waiting at a red light. Photo 2, the unloading truck, isn't excused, but photo 5? The tan and white cars are in marked meter spots, and that black car appears to have its reverse lights on, actively aiming for the empty meter spot between them. Ymmv on whether there should be any curbside parking here, but there is.

Using the bus lane to access spots like those feels like it's implicitly permitted... and one of the things that cameras / other bus lane enforcement needs to be able to account for.
 
Stlin said:
Of the ones I can see though, I can excuse 2/3? Photo 1, that car is in the segment marked for right turns and waiting at a red light. Photo 2, the unloading truck, isn't excused, but photo 5? The tan and white cars are in marked meter spots, and that black car appears to have its reverse lights on, actively aiming for the empty meter spot between them. Ymmv on whether there should be any curbside parking here, but there is.

Using the bus lane to access spots like those feels like it's implicitly permitted... and one of the things that cameras / other bus lane enforcement needs to be able to account for.
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I guess, but really, Im basing my snide remark on the fact that there are always cars parked here when I drive down Huntington. Hazard lights on, maybe, but that doesnt really matter. It is true that for loading and unloading, this is not great design, but there are plenty of places where you cant drop people off in larger cities and people seem to obey the rules.
 
I wonder how the blank wall on both sides of the building will age. It will be big, blank, and very visible. NIMBY's will hate. Also, aesthetically, I have seen grey panels like these get very dirty over time and stain.
 
Czervik.Construction said:
I wonder how the blank wall on both sides of the building will age. It will be big, blank, and very visible. NIMBY's will hate. Also, aesthetically, I have seen grey panels like these get very dirty over time and stain.
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I perhaps share a little of this concern, but not much, since, per the design, it really isn't a monolithic blank wall. It's hard to find a render that shows a dead-on side view, but if you look at this one posted upthread, there will be a large glass ribbon in the middle of two different shades of gray, and the lighter gray panels toward Huntington will taper inward revealing a partial glass side wall as you go up:

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^Posted by @stick n move upthread here: http://archboston.com/community/threads/lyra-née-the-huntington-252-258-264-huntington-avenue-fenway.5399/post-430040
 
bigpicture7 said:
I perhaps share a little of this concern, but not much, since, per the design, it really isn't a monolithic blank wall. It's hard to find a render that shows a dead-on side view, but if you look at this one posted upthread, there will be a large glass ribbon in the middle of two different shades of gray, and the lighter gray panels toward Huntington will taper inward revealing a partial glass side wall as you go up:

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^Posted by @stick n move upthread here: http://archboston.com/community/threads/lyra-née-the-huntington-252-258-264-huntington-avenue-fenway.5399/post-430040
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Thats the older version, they since changed it to this.
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