Seaport Square (Formerly McCourt Seaport Parcels)

If anyone from the BRA or a developer is reading this right now, please allow an art deco inspired 1920's type building, almost like they did with liberty mutual in the back bay, to be built in a prominent location in the seaport. The same way that liberty mutual gave the back bay that class upgrade and the old school feel to mix in with the newer back bay skyscrapers, if the seaport could get a short (obviously) but slim tower to keep the proportions, building, say on the edge of the fort point neighborhood to blend with all of those brick buildings it would help the area ten fold. If we dont do things like that this area could have a dubai type of feel(obviously not height wise) but when you build a ton of the same type of buildings as in all glass or all precast, you get a bland feeling from the area instead of the feeling that it is an organic area that has grown over time and gone through many different time periods and styles. We need a few liberty mutual type buildings here, because some buildings like that surrounded by newer looking glass buildings makes for a very pristine skyline, thank god for 315 on A because that building added some diversity and went perfect with the brick around it.
 
stick n move said:
If anyone from the BRA or a developer is reading this right now, please allow an art deco inspired 1920's type building, almost like they did with liberty mutual in the back bay, to be built in a prominent location in the seaport. The same way that liberty mutual gave the back bay that class upgrade and the old school feel to mix in with the newer back bay skyscrapers, if the seaport could get a short (obviously) but slim tower to keep the proportions, building, say on the edge of the fort point neighborhood to blend with all of those brick buildings it would help the area ten fold. If we dont do things like that this area could have a dubai type of feel(obviously not height wise) but when you build a ton of the same type of buildings as in all glass or all precast, you get a bland feeling from the area instead of the feeling that it is an organic area that has grown over time and gone through many different time periods and styles. We need a few liberty mutual type buildings here, because some buildings like that surrounded by newer looking glass buildings makes for a very pristine skyline, thank god for 315 on A because that building added some diversity and went perfect with the brick around it.
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Amen. And throwing an interesting crown or spire or something on the hat wouldn't kill anyone either. It really is the land of the box down there right now.
 
shmessy said:
Amen. And throwing an interesting crown or spire or something on the hat wouldn't kill anyone either. It really is the land of the box down there right now.
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Maximum square footage per block. Blocky, dull boxes.
 
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Love it! Can we org the developments by these stages? Rosenthal's Fenway flashing "worry" in my head.
 
Yotel plans micro hotel for Boston via the Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...-for-boston/jJIHuyDyItofknxrYEEx8L/story.html

John B. Hynes III is proposing to develop a Yotel, whose rooms — Yotel calls them “cabins” — have set a new benchmark for efficiency from London to New York to Amsterdam.

The rooms in Boston would range between 160 and 200 square feet, Hynes said, or roughly half the size of traditional rooms at the nearby Westin Waterfront. The 307-room Yotel is to be built along Seaport Boulevard, across from the Joseph Moakley US Courthouse.

A preliminary proposal for the Yotel calls for an 11-story building with a rooftop bar and seating area, designed by the Boston architecture firm ADD Inc. The hotel would serve as a lower-priced alternative to the luxury hotels that dominate the market in the Innovation District and downtown.
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I want to wait to see more simply because ADD has done well with its recent buildings...but yea, that doesn't look promising.
 
I like the look of this proposed Yotel. The Yotel in NYC is very drab... beige / brown cladding with brownish glass. Odd for a new building, looks very 1980's. However, they do have a dope roof bar.

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shmessy said:
Hey kids, it's East Berlin circa 1971!!!!!
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I would agree usually but the things that make old american cities like boston so unique/beautiful is that you can walk/drive around and see a mix of architecture from hundreds of years ago all the way up to being completed a week ago. The seaport being a blank template has the potential to feel this way because of the brick in fort point mixed in with buildings like the vertex buildings, but there wont be much of those in between period architecture examples. For this reason i welcome a few buildings here and there that will tap into the feeling of good pieces from the 60's, 70's, 80's, and hopefully 20's. That being said though this is on the ugly side and the white is getting extremely overplayed now, you can always throw in a black glass tower, I think Boston is due for a trump type black glass tower being built.
 
stick n move said:
... I think Boston is due for a trump type black glass tower being built.
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That would definitely be interesting to see, something relatively tall and slender and black as it can be.


As someone else mentioned in another thread, I would also love to see some modern art-deco type tower a-la 30 park place.
 
Seems very similar (cheaper?) to the envoy, roofbar and all...where will this be located in relation to the envoy?
 
So, this is an average NYC hotel room with a weird future/nautical theme?
 
davem said:
So, this is an average NYC hotel room with a weird future/nautical theme?
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Isn't this about half the size of a typical NYC room? I stayed in the Sheraton Tribeca (a standard NYC hotel) recently and it was 300 square feet. These yotel rooms are around 160-180 square feet average.
 
BosDevelop said:
Isn't this about half the size of a typical NYC room? I stayed in the Sheraton Tribeca (a standard NYC hotel) recently and it was 300 square feet. These yotel rooms are around 160-180 square feet average.
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I'm thinking more along the lines of Hotel 31/Hotel17, or most of the not new buildings. Super tiny, but clean and in the middle of everything.
 
I'm sorry, but a door for the toilet is not an acceptable thing to take away, and a shower curtain does not block smell. Unless I was by myself, you couldn't pay me to stay there.

Otherwise, the decor is pretty cool. It kind of reminds me of a star trek set.
 
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