I'm still disappointed.... I feel like this building, while a fantastic addition to the skyline, is a missed chance at greatness. Anyone else feel the same?
VE City/dribble/rinse cycle in 3...2...1....
Yeah, and half every other damn building that's gone up since the JHT. You see the words 'rich/evil developers' used in every other Globe post. Some developers deserve it, but in our liberal utopia, politicians were tempted long ago to set about enabling everyone to either have their hands out, or be cooking the stew to the point where.... –except, we don't have San Francisco/New York pricing/sq ft + height allowances that would leave open great design to be priced in.
Then there's our warped sense of what actually constitutes a tall (re; unreasonable) building: that bar is set very low here. There are exceptions of, course (MT, Rowes, Lovejoy Wharfs) but the low-hanging fruit is gone. Next, the same crap happens at the Harbor Garage, and the air-rights projects coming up are gonna be threading through the needle.
In a few years when our tall proposals wrap up, with the state and city endlessly 'broke' we should be surprised if our next phase of cool (re; air-rights) will find any takers. Expect another 2 state administrations to come and go before these idiots ask if they went about it 'ass backwards.'
We just had another potential show stopper (save for it's lousy cantilever design). Midwood should hold out; before long, it might end be the last tall building with a sitting proposal. We're doing fantastic things in filling our city's spaces with lots of people. ...but, as far as the actual buildings go, most everything will continue to be squat, VE'd crap.
The grey panels look like crap. But, i'm glad it isn't a modernism/deco type thing. i doubt it would have looked good for a 375' tower.