Raffles Boston (40 Trinity Place) | 426 Stuart Street | Back Bay

Hey, plop 30 stories of a Robert AM Stern lookalike on top... 5 years down the road no one would ever know...
 
awood91 said:
OK this will be an unpopular opinion but the Fairmount Copley needs to be redeveloped into something more appropriate for one of the densest parts of town. 6 stories doesn't cut it. Adaptive reuse of façade or whatever will be palatable, but its a huge site and woefully under utilized.
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Not the historic building facing Copley but the building in rear could have a new tower developed above forming a gateway with eventual redevelopment at Back Bay Station and hopefully one day a revived Copley Tower proposal...
 
JS38 said:
Not the historic building facing Copley but the building in rear could have a new tower developed above forming a gateway with eventual redevelopment at Back Bay Station and hopefully one day a revived Copley Tower proposal...
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Kind of like the St. Francis in San Francisco.
 
awood91 said:
OK this will be an unpopular opinion but the Fairmount Copley needs to be redeveloped into something more appropriate for one of the densest parts of town. 6 stories doesn't cut it. Adaptive reuse of façade or whatever will be palatable, but its a huge site and woefully under utilized.
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Maybe when the city hits 3m and the metro hits ~20m and we have absolutely nothing left to build on but until then it’s just fine. The interior is nearly as worthy of preservation as the exterior, even with the bastardization of the Oak Bar/Room.
 
awood91 said:
OK this will be an unpopular opinion but the Fairmount Copley needs to be redeveloped into something more appropriate for one of the densest parts of town. 6 stories doesn't cut it. Adaptive reuse of façade or whatever will be palatable, but its a huge site and woefully under utilized.
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kmp1284 said:
Maybe when the city hits 3m and the metro hits ~20m and we have absolutely nothing left to build on but until then it’s just fine. The interior is nearly as worthy of preservation as the exterior, even with the bastardization of the Oak Bar/Room.
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I would like to take this opportunity to say that I agree with kmp on something, as it's such a rare occurrence that it might just be a unicorn event. When dzh and kmp both align against you, that's how you know you've got a losing hand.
 
From the OL headed to Tufts Medical from Back Bay.
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I don’t hate it but it looks like anything you’d see in Austin, Charlotte, Nashville these days (and leads the mind to thinking about those places, at least for me, over Boston or a city in the NE).
 
I'm still intensely curious about what's going on with the crown. That they started construction of it, then removed it completely, and since then (a relatively long time by now) have made no moves to resume building it makes me wonder if something fundamentally amiss with the design was discovered -- and, if so, what the amended version will look like.
 
bdurden said:
I don’t hate it but it looks like anything you’d see in Austin, Charlotte, Nashville these days (and leads the mind to thinking about those places, at least for me, over Boston or a city in the NE).
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I like the way the horizontal lines of the Hancock reflect off its facade. I think that makes it look unique even in comparison to other contemporary, glass blocks.
 
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