Seaport Square (Formerly McCourt Seaport Parcels)

If any form of rail comes through the tunnels, I don't think buses should share them. The buses go so slow in the tunnels anyway that the utility of avoiding street-running is lost. Instead of the SL Airport as currently conceived, there should simply be a surface BRT line from South Station to the Airport terminals - dedicated bus lanes down Summer Street stopping once at the BCEC and then straight into the TWT. So that would be in addition to the integrated rail service using the current tunnels.
 
I like the idea of an Orange-Red connection at SS. You'd eliminate the bizarre incentive to hop commuter rail trains between there and Back Bay and reduce some of the overcrowding on the narrow Downtown Crossing platforms.

Only remaining problem: tricky tunnels under the Fort Point Channel and harbor!
 
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Because nothing says "innovation" like stale, value engineered architecture.

FAIL.
 
Beton Brut said:
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Because nothing says "innovation" like stale, value engineered architecture.

FAIL.
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Keep the angular entrance (kinda reminds me of an F117 taking off at Ara 51) and just build up at least 10 stories over the low flat part
 
^ That would just make it a Menino stub like the rest of the neighborhood..
 
Wow, planes must fly really low over this parcel...

Oh wait, that's not the reason it's one st- wait what's that you say - there is no reason?

Ah.

And next you'll tell me that innovation can actually happen without an innovation center... Riiiight....
 
HenryAlan said:
Nah, it looks like a hotel conference center in New Hampshire.
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All of the above.

Though, Church was first to mind.




Wacky insane plan: Continue Summer St Concourse from DTX all the way to Silver Line at South Station. I'm not sure how easily this can be done after the central artery destroyed part of it, but maybe that can be worked around.
 
Value-engineered deconstructivist buildings begin their lives looking like imminent tear-downs .

That building is positively miserable-looking. Boston can do better (but it likely won't).
 
Still better than a parking lot. Maybe the design will change before construction like so many other projects.
 
What's the weird sparkly/constellation-looking rectangle shooting up from behind the, ahem, "Innovation Center"?

1) A placeholder for the South Station Tower or another project?

2) Some atrocious new design for (1)?

3) A black hole about to swallow the Innovatory District?
 
Come on guys! So negative! Even the DPW needs a place to store salt.
 
HenryAlan said:
Nah, it looks like a hotel conference center in New Hampshire.
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No, they would not be so bold as to propose something like that. They do not have the mental fortitude or the backbone. They would put it in a mill building first. Well, maybe not Manchester.
 
tobyjug said:
Come on guys! So negative! Even the DPW needs a place to store salt.
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Aide: "Mr. Mayor! The new sodium chloride facility is complete in the Seaport!"
Menino: "WOW! We're really doin' biotech down there in da Innavahtion District!"
 
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