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

[themissinglink]

9/4

 

[DZH22]

IMG_0124 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0129 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0143 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0169 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_0176 by David Z, on Flickr

 

[stick n move]

Thats cool how from some angles it fills in the gap between parcel 12 and the pru complex buildings and from other angles it fills in the gap between parcel 12 and fenway. The location of this makes it extremely dynamic.

 

[JeffDowntown]

I think it is really interesting how prominent this is from so many angles, and yet, when you see it in the context of the high spine, it is a relatively minor addition.

It is just very well situated for interesting vantages, particularly the view down several streets.

 

[ritchiew]

I'm not sure anyone has posed this POV, but you can see it going up from Copley Square.

 

[AndrewOnTheMBTA]

9/8

 

[stick n move]

I'm not sure anyone has posed this POV, but you can see it going up from Copley Square.

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That was my point in this post, copley lines up with it too. Glad you grabbed that shot. Theres so many sight lines for such a small building.

Youve got copley square too

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And though mass ave doesnt line up exactly from the opposite direction, an older render showed its going to be prominent from there too.

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[taketern]

 

[Justbuildit]

Missed it the last few posts but yeah the core is topped out. This will be mostly complete from the outside in a couple weeks. Super cool progress

 

[AndrewOnTheMBTA]

Looking good today! 9/11

 

[AndrewOnTheMBTA]

One more from the other side today 9/11

 

[Smuttynose]

Very prominent views from Christian Science Plaza (9/11/2025) —

 

[sean99090900]

View from the plaza is excellent

 

[themissinglink]

9/11

 

[lynqueezy]

 

[bbfen]

I walked up Belvidere just as the fountain was being turned on this morning. Love the decent color relationship of the white of Symphony Towers and this building. Good on the design team.

ETA: I think maybe I didn't do the photo thing properly. Sorry, I'm a techno idiot!

 

[HBH]

From the Fairmount Line, a quite pleasing step down of towers

 

[BeeLine]

As of 9/13/25. From the Summer Street Bridge.

 

[kz1000ps]

 

[Stlin]

I've been trying to figure out why the as built bothers me so much compared to the renders, and I'm fairly certain its the curtain wall facade. The horizontal banding resulting from the floor slabs is much thicker and prominent than I expected as it actually interrupts the curtain wall -notice that they didn't do that in the side insets, where the glass is continuous, and it looks much better. That makes the darker glass vertical accents that were aligned with the structural columns, and which helped emphasize verticality, much less prominent, as is the front face faceting much more subtle than some renders would have suggested. Plus, the curtain wall is comprised of so many individual panels, close up it just look really busy, where the black framing really doesn't help. Part of that is of course the windows are open during construction, but the operable windows being offset except in proximity to the "seam" of the facet bothers the hell out of me.

I'll of course reserve judgement until completion, especially as its far from reaching its final height, but I actually think the earlier colossal order offset windows design would likely have been better. Not to say I dislike the building... just somewhere in the realm of disappointed in the built product.