Radian (Dainty Dot) | 120 Kingston Street | Chinatown

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown

Amazing to me how many projects are being designed by a single architect: Elkus Manfredi.

One Franklin (Filenes, for Vornado)
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Copley Tower
Herald Ink Blot
Faneuil Hall plan
Fenway Triangle
Dainty Dot
Broad Institute at 75 Ames (Cambridge)

Recent: One Marina Park Dr
Recent: Intercontinental Hotel
Recent: Paramount Center
Recent: Liberty Wharf
Recent: 33 Arch St

Is this accurate?

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Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown

I thought Millenium hired the same architect for One Franklin as they hired for Howard Place? If we're both correct, then you can add Howard Place onto that list.
 
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Maybe Elkus was Vornado's architect, since replaced by the same architect as Hayward Place?

I'll update my list if someone confirms.
 
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Broad Inst/75 Ames is all Elkus.
 
Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown

Sicilian, add CBT and you've nailed Boston's architectural duopoly.
 
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Any theories here?
 
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Unworthy successor.
 
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yesterdays drive-by
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Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown

From 29 stories to 26, and an increase in the number of residential units from 180 to 240. Accomplished by either shrinking the average unit size, or bulking up the building, or both. A bit more retail space, and it seems a bit more space donated to the park. From iconic to the banal, from a Chinese architect to a Boston firm using one of its off-the-shelf templates. Ah, progress.
 
Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown

Our hats go off to Ori Ron for destroying part of the city's ever-fragile historic tapestry (also known as the thing that attracts people to Boston) and creating what in 20 years will surely be a source of blight. Thanks, pal!
 
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went down there today
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Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown

This building could be an amazing base for the tower. It would also preserve most of the buildings shell.
 
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To say this area is "blighted" because of the Dainty Dot, which looks to be in better shape than many buildings put up in the last decade, and not because of a DB landlord who is intentionally not renting out any of the building in order to then claim there is some "blight" intrinsic to the building, is one hell of a whopper.

Ori Ron: Willful Creator of Blight.
 
Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown

Has the historical commission -- or whatever you call 'em -- tried to step in or speak up? All this thing needs in some basic maintenance. Give her a good scrub, or maybe some sanding, and she'll look pretty and new.
 
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BostonUrbEx said:
Has the historical commission -- or whatever you call 'em -- tried to step in or speak up? All this thing needs in some basic maintenance. Give her a good scrub, or maybe some sanding, and she'll look pretty and new.
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IIRC, attempts at preserving it (through governmental action) came to naught, as much of the rear of the building, the part unseen in the photos ^^^, was demolished years and years ago. So in essence, the preservation would have been of the facade.
 
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stellarfun said:
So in essence, the preservation would have been of the facade.
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Maybe my attitude is one of "take what you can get," but is that really so bad? I'm more than happy to see this building have fully modernized interiors as long as the facade remains; the facade there today provides an infinitely richer experience for everyone in the city than will the pre-cast crap the Grand Blighter, Ori Ron, will plop down.
 
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I'd direct my anger towards the cry baby neighbors who killed the original design(which did of course preserve the Dainty Dot facade), not Ori Ron. Under their demands the economics of preserving the facade didn't work. Real estate development isn't charity. Although with the fleecing he took having to foot the bill for that Hong Luk project, it may as well be.
 
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