Also, I apologize if this is a dumb question, but what are the purpose of the large yellow metal screens that have gone up since yesterday? I noticed two on Hawley St and one on Franklin. Thanks!
The screens are another Peri product, called Peri LPS or "light protection screen." It allows light to enter the interior while keeping the workers safe from falling. Those clamps hanging off the slab that bob asked about earlier are for the rails that support the LPS.
400 Park Ave South, New York, NY
http://www.peri-usa.com/projects.cf...893/currentimage/2/referencecategory_ID/6.cfm
So are these screens another version of the "climbing form" that typically surrounds cast in place construction buildings? If so I'm somewhat surprised because I would have thought we wouldn't have seen this until we got a couple tower floors under our belt.
Yeah, I know nobody really cares about this but me, but I'm still sad.
I care, and not just because it no longer says Filene's. The type face is all wrong for the clock and building. You can combine modern with classic, which the project in its entirety does quite well. But on the clock, that sign is too starkly contrasting and just looks cheap.
I care, and not just because it no longer says Filene's. The type face is all wrong for the clock and building. You can combine modern with classic, which the project in its entirety does quite well. But on the clock, that sign is too starkly contrasting and just looks cheap.
... and if Wikipedia is to be believed, the head of marketing at Prudential at the time the Center was sold was a Boston native, and Prudential Financial actually retained the naming and signage rights as part of the deal.Someone from the Normandy Partners or whomever it was that bought it before Boston Properties bought it told me that it was in the deed that the Hancock tower could never not be the Hancock tower.
1. no wonder it didnt take very long the inside isnt completely redone.
Also, they actually bolted sconces to those decaying brick pilasters?
Me too. I think the issue is unlike your standard exposed brick and beam building, which was built as a warehouse or factory (and therefore typically exposed throughout its life, and somewhat decently detailed), what they exposed here was unquestionably always meant to be covered. Add onto that the fact that Trinity was planning to demolish everything and took no care when they tore out the old interior, you're left with a really ugly starting point.I'm so disappointed in these interiors.
Me too. I think the issue is unlike your standard exposed brick and beam building, which was built as a warehouse or factory (and therefore typically exposed throughout its life, and somewhat decently detailed), what they exposed here was unquestionably always meant to be covered. Add onto that the fact that Trinity was planning to demolish everything and took no care when they tore out the old interior, you're left with a really ugly starting point.
Of course, the interior designers missed the mark as well. The color palate bothers me, its somehow both too dark and too light. I can see what they were going for here, but the execution is just... bad. Luckily, they are just a tenant.