Millennium (Hayward) Place | 580 Washington Street | Downtown

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place

bdurden said:
Are you referring to the MBTA entrance?
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It looks like where that's supposed to be. Big brick wall though?

I would love to see photos from other angles on this: down Hayward Pl. and on Harrison. The floorplan makes it seem like the street level interaction will be nil, especially on Harrison, beyond garage doors and blank walls.
 
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Exiting the T on Hawley St this morning, a concrete company was doing prep on the backside of Filene's. Not certain exactly on what, but it's the first activity in the area I've seen in a very long while.

Passersby really seemed to take notice. This will be fun to watch!
 
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sixten said:
Exiting the T on Hawley St this morning, a concrete company was doing prep on the backside of Filene's. Not certain exactly on what, but it's the first activity in the area I've seen in a very long while.

Passersby really seemed to take notice. This will be fun to watch!
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This is in the wrong thread, but YAY!
 
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Millennium is intentionally disregarding the activation of Hayward Pl. They flat out told me that it "never was" an active, inviting street, and the other side of the street from their project will not be inviting either, so they basically said "fuck it", and in combination with pressure from the BRA to have a drop off zone, they tacked the street down as a service/drop off area.
 
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I honestly don't have a problem with some of these side streets acting as alleyways. Not EVERY street in the city needs to be teaming with retail and people. It's the hidden alleys and side streets you find by accident that gives you those little moments of discovery that people love so much about living in a city.
 
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^ Not sure a drop-off zone, loading dock, or blank wall is going to make anyone's heart flutter with serendipitous excitement.
 
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There haven't been many updates on this in a while, the exterior is almost done.

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Caught a piece of (cornice?) cladding going up...
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Glass wall looks great... the rest of the building is kind of meh.
 
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I really like how this turned out, but the patch of ribbon windows is a non sequitur and looks totally out of place.
 
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Best of 2012-13. The facade is GREAT!
 
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I really like the windows, but the brick-veneer is just awful. This would have been a better building with terra cotta cladding.
 
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Arborway said:
I really like how this turned out, but the patch of ribbon windows is a non sequitur and looks totally out of place.
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Yeah, for a split second I thought a 1980s suburban office building waddled into the picture. Very odd.
 
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The most offensive part of the veneer is the highly visible vertical seams between the panels. Yeah I get it that it is actual brick put on to the panels but it is pretty shameful that they didn't do any thing to try to make the seams disappear. The half bricks butted up against full bricks on the next panel are glaring. It looks shoddy and cheap.
 
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The area from Winter St to Avery St has a very impressive feel to it now. This project is really going to help do great things. This street is turning around!
 
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BostonUrbEx said:
Millennium is intentionally disregarding the activation of Hayward Pl. They flat out told me that it "never was" an active, inviting street, and the other side of the street from their project will not be inviting either, so they basically said "fuck it", and in combination with pressure from the BRA to have a drop off zone, they tacked the street down as a service/drop off area.
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Hayward Place (the street) is very well done vis-a-vis this building. It's a nice, quiet, elegant extension of Avery St's quiet, understated elegance. If anything, we should thank this building for trying to funnel that elegance towards this area.

Harrison Ave is dead, but don't blame it on Millennium Place III / Hayward Place. It was dead a long time ago due to the RKO Building dead-wall. This dead-wall damns Hayward Place (the street) too.

In a magical world where I am a dictator: I would gut the RKO theater that is embedded in that building. This vacant theater is the cause of the dead-wall: you can't house retail here because the interior is an empty cavern.

I would gut the theater, and leave the space open-plan. Wrap the entire lower two floors in glass and make the space visible from the street. Then use it as a mall with a variety of retail and dining.

This was essentially the plan for the Boylston Building across the street from the RMV. But that building is in sad shape. At the end of the day, it depends on the economics, and it never looks good for retail in Downtown Crossing
 
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Nice shot, was that taken from the movie theater?
 
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