Millennium (Hayward) Place | 580 Washington Street | Downtown

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

statler said:
I love the Paramount.

True story: It was the Paramount that got me into architecture/urban planning/this site.

Shortly after starting my job downtown ~15 years ago I took a walk around the neighborhood. When I saw the Paramount I was shocked to see how run down it was and all I could think about was how cool it would be to fix it up and reopen a theather there.

So I started looking online for information about who owned it and if there were any plans and I found the SkyscraperGuy forum and the rest is history.
Click to expand...

Stat -- 40 years ago when I first arrived at MIT -- you could take a walk-about quite a lot of Boston / Cambridge and find " how run down it was and all "

In fact most of the places both on the Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame - wouldn't have been there 40 years ago - they were mostly anonymous run-down old building, nasty old concrete city-owned parking garages, open parking or decaying wharfs. Meanwhile while the core of the city only had life in a few patches -- the Rt-128 Belt was booming and I-495, Rt-3, I-93 was starting to develop in spots and spurts

Today -- things have nearly inverted the built environment -- the suburban belts and tendrils are snoring or slowly awakening (with few exceptions) -- while the Bos/Cam/erville Core is smoldering and in some spots on fire with action and development

Wonder what a walk-about / drive about of the Greater Hub will look like in 40 more years -- core / periphery or a balanced blend?
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

Cliff Clavin said:
The crane is begining to arrive.
Click to expand...

Top o'the Mahn ta ya masta Crane

Cranes there arrival is the true Haaaaahbingah of Spring

Cranes Cranes ... Cranes..Cranes.. Wonderful Cranes Wonderful Cranes

sung to the tune of Spam of course
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

Cliff Clavin said:
The crane is begining to arrive.
Click to expand...
There are 13 cranes on the Bos/Camb skyline as of now,feels like the late 80's! I broke my camera the other day,useing a borrow Sony(see yesterdays pixs) need to buy a new one soon,can't miss out on all the action coming our way!
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

Boston02124 said:
There are 13 cranes on the Bos/Camb skyline as of now,feels like the late 80's! I broke my camera the other day,useing a borrow Sony(see yesterdays pixs) need to buy a new one soon,can't miss out on all the action coming our way!
Click to expand...

Bless you! Keep 'em coming, please, for us out-of towners!!!!!
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

no sign of the crane toay so back to the Paramont
088.jpg
087-1.jpg
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

here we go! :)
067-1.jpg
070.jpg
soon this view will be gone!
072-1.jpg
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

Crane is being constructed. I actually drove past pieces of it being driven into the city on 93 north yesterday. Had a hunch it might be going here.

7029970283_ed54e72a8b_b.jpg
[/url]
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

Looks like two crane shafts going up.
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

This afternoon:

7062178949_c98d948df4_b.jpg


6916099320_dab62e63a6_b.jpg


7062182807_1ca9fdc9e8_b.jpg


7062184277_31bc447b68_b.jpg
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

kz1000ps said:
This afternoon:

7062184277_31bc447b68_b.jpg
Click to expand...

I love how eclectic the buildings across the street from this is. We have the almost rococo ornamentation of the opera house and the mild art deco shapes of the Paramount as well as the strict modernism of the... whatever that building is (the ritz?). they all work well together though because they don't try to out do each other, they are just happy neighbors.
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

"they all work well together though because they don't try to out do each other, they are just happy neighbors."

In that case then in this photo:
ToC in the background is the ugly fat girl feeling left out.
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

^ooo.... much better analogy than I had.
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

found5dollar said:
^ooo.... much better analogy than I had.
Click to expand...

I just like the fact that there's a hole with a couple of cranes ready to grace the downtown skyline

Based on the current timetables -- there should be cranes in the DTX for the next 3 or 4 years
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

Crane footings in place!

GaRrj.jpg
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

AdamBC said:
Crane footings in place!
Click to expand...

Assuming that the consulting business stinks -- I feel a summer of strolling and phtotoging comming on

Cranes dancing in the warm summer breezes, towers begining to sprout to the left, the right, in-front, way off in the distance .. ...... WoW
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

I will never get you people's hard ons for cranes (though, wait...after employing that unfortunate word choice, maybe I do). I'm pretty bored until we start seeing glimpses of a finished product.
 
Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

czsz said:
I will never get you people's hard ons for cranes (though, wait...after employing that unfortunate word choice, maybe I do). I'm pretty bored until we start seeing glimpses of a finished product.
Click to expand...

I don't really get the crane fetish either, but I did take some crane shots in Berlin and Vienna specially for those people. Just have to figure out a place to put them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top