Photo of the Day, Boston Style - Part Deux

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A bit more of 125 Summer..

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^ Nice lighting and angle. It fills me with hope these buildings will look slightly more dignified, with a bit of age.
 
^ The gap in the streetwall on the right side will be filled in by 2 Financial, and TransNational Place, if built, will dominate the sky in the center.
 
shiz02130 said:
and TransNational Place, if built, will dominate the sky in the center.
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Oh, I hope not! Then there will be shadows and the sun will be blocked!
 
It's a Bullfinch-designed building on the intersection of Park Street and Beacon Street in downtown Boston in which partisans argue and contrive the laws that govern the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


Don't say you didn't ask.
 
Apparently BU law students refer to it as the "Tower of Doom", among other charming epithets.
 
im surprised no one takes pictures of the inside of churches. I've been in many for weddings/funerals/christenings etc and i usually end up staring at the ceiling. especially at funerals.
 
Bobby Digital said:
i usually end up staring at the ceiling. especially at funerals.
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Hahaha ohh we just laid my grandmother on my father's side to rest a month ago (RIP) and I can't tell you how much time I spent staring at the church's ceiling. It was a full-blown Catholic ceremony too, so it was looooong.
 
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^ note the chevron style elements at the top of the piers... those aren't original are they??
 
A little bit of trivia about that building: That was the site of where NASA was going to build their ground control headquarters. JFK had the land set aside but when he was killed and Johnson took over he moved it to his home state, and that's why it is in Houston.

Just imagine, it could have been "Cambridge, we have a problem."
 
Three from today:

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seen on the 8th floor of City Hall, Mayor Menino made of M&Ms... yum yum!

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lastly, here's the finest Boston has to offer :D

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That last picture: At least three things need to happen at that location:

- Extend Hanover Street to Cambridge Street
- Narrow up Congress Street
- Tear down the GC Garage.

The new brick low rise in front of the new vent building is nice. Would have been great to have a few of those built inside the Rose Kennedy Greenway, to break it up a bit.
 
Unfortunately the new brick low rise is vacant! I don't understand why they are having so much trouble renting out the first-floor retail. And is the office space occupied?
 
Maybe they are asking too much. There is a condo building near me, on 34th st, in a very good neighborhood, next to a movie theater, that has something like 52,000 sq ft of leasable retail space and as long as that building has been around (5+ years) it has been vacant. I went by today and I think there is one new tenant but there is still this vast street wall of empty space.

My only guess is that the landlord is asking too much.
 
Ron Newman said:
Unfortunately the new brick low rise is vacant! I don't understand why they are having so much trouble renting out the first-floor retail. And is the office space occupied?
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Isn't this building really a parking garage? So the only rent-able space would be on the ground floor.
 
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