Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

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I just hope we get retail storefronts all along Boylston and Arlington as shown in the renderings. From the street pedestrian perspective, it could be an improvement. However, it's such a loss of interesting architecture, and especially the corner building.
 
Randy N. Craven-Krawtch said:
I might be in the minority, but I think the new building is pretty decent looking by the renderings. Hope it turns out well. That entire block has been so dead for so long.
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The owner allowed that stretch to be dead in order to tear down the historical buildings. So now we are stuck with a superblock that is simultaneously oppressive while being woefully underwhelming. It looks like it belongs at the far back of the Seaport or edge of Kendall. For the particular corner it's actually being built on, it's a blight on the urban fabric.
 
Randy N. Craven-Krawtch said:
I might be in the minority, but I think the new building is pretty decent looking by the renderings. Hope it turns out well. That entire block has been so dead for so long.
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Below are links to the project portfolios for the lead architects for this building, AKA 350 Boylston. They are partners at Robert Stern. This will not be a cheap-looking building.

Meghan McDermott
https://www.ramsa.com/index.php/projects/108

Graham Wyatt
https://www.ramsa.com/index.php/projects/111
 
Randy N. Craven-Krawtch said:
I might be in the minority, but I think the new building is pretty decent looking by the renderings. Hope it turns out well. That entire block has been so dead for so long.
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It was dead because the owner was trying to blight it intentionally to justify tearing it down.

The issue here isn't that the new building is bad, it's that it's big and has far less character than the smaller, more varied buildings that were lost. Boylston benefits from a varied streetscape of narrow buildings for most of its length in the Back Bay, and a superblock like this is a step backward.
 
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