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[BeeLine]

11/11/23

 

[SMCYB]

^^ Nice photos. Will something be done to make the ceiling over the tracks look presentable?

 

[bakgwailo]

^^ Nice photos. Will something be done to make the ceiling over the tracks look presentable?

You mean the temporary construction scaffolding ?

 

[SMCYB]

You mean the temporary construction scaffolding ?

No. I mean the ceiling over the tracks, as in BeeLine's photo 1153 above.

 

[cburns]

Crane within the core on the way down over the past couple of days with the boom being dismantled Sunday and the gantry yesterday; another step closer to the first concrete pour...

 

[Suffolk 83]

Crane within the core on the way down over the past couple of days with the boom being dismantled Sunday and the gantry yesterday; another step closer to the first concrete pour...

Accurate. As of right now

 

[Jahvon09]

Accurate. As of right nowView attachment 44529

Thanks!! Doesn't the tower have several more floors to go before the top-out?

 

[Poolio]

 

[Poolio]

Thanks!! Doesn't the tower have several more floors to go before top-out?

Yes. According to post 3870, we're at floor 35 now, still going up to 51 plus mechanicals. This is the top of the office part of the building, and also the top of the "shoulders" seen in the renders. The general consensus seems to be that they'll be switching from steel to concrete for the residential floors.

 

[Jahvon09]

Thanks. Here's the rendering of the tower completed.

 

[Jahvon09]

Ok., it's the last segment of floors left where the smaller part of the tower is that will finish it off & top it out. It will be almost as tall as the Pru Tower.

 

[chrisbrat]

Ok., it's the last segment of floors left where the smaller part of the tower is that will finish it off & top it out. It will be almost as tall as the Pru Tower.

If being 72 feet shorter somehow means "almost as tall" to you, then sure.

 

[DZH22]

If being 72 feet shorter somehow means "almost as tall" to you, then sure.

It's basically the height of the Pru without the Pru's top section. There's not a huge gulf here.

 

[chrisbrat]

It's basically the height of the Pru without the Pru's top section. There's not a huge gulf here.

View attachment 44562

Not saying SST won't be tall, but however you slice it 677' is not (to my way of thinking) "almost" 749'.

Yes, without the Pru's top section it'd be considerably shorter (just like any tower/highrise would be considerably shorter if you chopped off the crown, mechanical penthouse, or however you define "top") -- but so? "The old John Hancock building would be much shorter without the zigguart crown." Very true, but that crown is there, as is the resultant height.

 

[Charlie_mta]

Thanks. Here's the rendering of the tower completed.View attachment 44555

Reminds me of the robot on The Day the Earth Stood Still.

 

[stick n move]

Thanks. Here's the rendering of the tower completed.View attachment 44555

That picture is all jacked up, its squat for some reason. Its supposed to look like this.

 

[dotdude78]

Not saying SST won't be tall, but however you slice it 677' is not (to my way of thinking) "almost" 749'.

Yes, without the Pru's top section it'd be considerably shorter (just like any tower/highrise would be considerably shorter if you chopped off the crown, mechanical penthouse, or however you define "top") -- but so? "The old John Hancock building would be much shorter without the zigguart crown." Very true, but that crown is there, as is the resultant height.

Agreed. Also, not part of the building, but the Pru has the huge antenna on top, which adds a little something too. I believe the antenna goes up to like 925' or thereabouts. And the Pru's crown is the most noticeable thing on the skyline at night. SST will be no Pru.

 

[Pheldy34]

This thing could really use a nice spire...

 

[chrisbrat]

This thing could really use a nice spire...

apply that sentiment to a good 1/3 of boston's high-rises and skyscrapers, if not more.

so many rectilinear, flat-roofed filing cabinets...

 

[DZH22]

This thing could really use a nice spire...

It already reaches the FAA limits. Do you think it would look better with less floors and a shorter roof (ie same height as The Fed and 1 Financial next door) so they could jam a stick on top?