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New coat of paint (?). Guess it's going to be a long time before we see steel going up on the project.


Brookline/Boylston 3/28
 
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^From that angle, it looks like Waterside Place with more glass.
 
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Is "Home Market" in Crate & Barrel font...? Maybe they are targeting C&B as a retail tenant?
 
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fattony said:
Is "Home Market" in Crate & Barrel font...? Maybe they are targeting C&B as a retail tenant?
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Yes, it is a render spinoff of C&B. I was going to comment on it. C&B would be perfect here, though I still miss Pottery Barn. West Elm is across the street in Trilogy.

I just noticed too: that render shows development on Shaw's!
 
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I thought the streetscape looked really interesting. Vastly different than it currently is. Not sure what it will look like post muddy river restoration project and post point.
 
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This is going to be simply amazing when its done. Kenmore may have missed the boat thanks to BU, but this could be our times square of sorts.


I wish as part of the daylighting project the city went all 1960s on that parking lot in front of the Landmark Center and the gas station across from it. Declare them a blight and reorient Park Drive to be tucked in closer to the Landmark Center for more parkland in the middle. It would have helped with traffic too, since that middle part of brookline ave would have another ~60 feet for cars to stack up.
 
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Sweeeeeeet.
 
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Ooooooh man this looks good. I hope they keep the color gradient they showed in earlier renders- it adds so much to this (already great) tower.

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I'm confused, am I the only person looking a building that's not only wider than it is tall, but is then gussied up by a night render to mask the actual colors and materials? Wow great, that's just what this city needs, more gigantic stumpy walls! Seriously, what the hell is so amazing about this? You can see that the window segments from the right are done 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Spectacular. So is every poster above me somehow related to the 5 year old who designed this? "Yaaaayyyy that's my boy!!! Let's put this render on the fridge!!!" Everything potentially decent about this tower will be VE'd out by the time it's built.
 
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DZH22 said:
I'm confused, am I the only person looking a building that's not only wider than it is tall, but is then gussied up by a night render to mask the actual colors and materials? Wow great, that's just what this city needs, more gigantic stumpy walls! Seriously, what the hell is so amazing about this? You can see that the window segments from the right are done 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Spectacular. So is every poster above me somehow related to the 5 year old who designed this? "Yaaaayyyy that's my boy!!! Let's put this render on the fridge!!!" Everything potentially decent about this tower will be VE'd out by the time it's built.
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Are you serious? This is a million times better than the crap getting built elsewhere in the city. This is probably the first building in the Fenway that doesn't feature some sort of brick and punched openings and/or a hybrid facade like 1330 Boylston (which is executed rather successfully - brick for apts, glass/steel for Fenway Health). If executed correctly, this will be a beautiful glass facade with some spandrel panels between units.

Just look at it in comparison to Trilogy on the top of this page, for god sake!
 
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Well, it's just sooooooo wide. It's going to look incredibly fat from a bunch of angles. I was mainly ripping on the new render too, because night renders are almost never realistic. Also I'm in an incredibly pissy mood that has nothing to do with buildings but I'm certainly taking it out on whatever is in my way, in this case.... this.
 
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From the Globe,
In the Fenway, Samuels & Associates won approval for The Point, a slender, 22-story residential tower that will replace a low-rise retail building at the corner of Boylston Street and Brookline Avenue. The $185 million project will include 320 residences and two levels of retail. Most of the residences are expected to be apartments, although some condos may be included. Work is expected to start next summer.

“We always wanted to create some kind of gateway or statement at this location, and I think this building accomplishes that,” said Peter Sougarides, a principal of Samuels & Associates. The building, designed by the firm Arquitectonica, features a multitiered glass facade that looks like several glass doors sliding into one another.
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I don't usually throw this around as much as others on here but another 5-6 stories here would have made sense and despite that likely making it the tallest in the neighborhood, I don't think it would have been out of place. It would also help in regards to DZH22's comments about the large width.
 
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Pretty sure this proposal builds to the maximum allowed height on a parcel that has already been specially zoned as a "gateway" parcel to allow it to be the tallest in the neighborhood. Pushing for a dimensional variance when this will already be the outlier for the area is probably ill advised (in terms of neighborhood opposition).
 
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I don't think it will be all that wide, its broken up well and despite being a similar height its almost 100' narrower than Liberty Mutual. That being said, Samuels has also proven to do good work, with each building having decent design and materials, as well as excellent street interaction. This building is the crown jewel of the whole development, I don't think they are going to VE it or screw it up.
 
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This'll be a big improvement. Just need to do something about calming that ridiculous highway adjacent to it.
 
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Matthew said:
This'll be a big improvement. Just need to do something about calming that ridiculous highway adjacent to it.
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The Boylston Ave rebuilding project, which includes bike lanes, has been coming soon since 2009.
 
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Is there a typical timeframe between BRA approval and construction starting? Or is it too variable to even try to guess?
 
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