odurandina
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Re: South Station Tower
Bus Depot is 9-27 airway.
Bus Depot is 9-27 airway.
https://www.cnet.com/news/i-ate-ges-hottest-hot-sauce-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/I ate GE's 'hottest' hot sauce and lived to tell about it
Gather around, children. Listen to Crave's Amanda Kooser share her tale of a night spent with 10^32 Kelvin, a hot sauce full of peppers whose names include words like "reaper" and "scorpion."
by Amanda Kooser
April 25, 2016 6:44 PM PDT
GE says 10^32 Kelvin is "the temperature at which physicists believe all matter starts to break down." It's also known as "absolute hot." Guinness gives the Carolina Reaper a 1.56 million Scoville rating, a method for describing the heat of chilies. Compare that to a jalapeño at between 2,500 and 5,000 on the Scoville scale....
GE packaged it in a silicon carbide tube topped with nickel alloy and an actual jet engine part. It can withstand temperatures up to 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit (1,315 Celsius). I'm wondering if GE's scientists can craft me some new intestines made out of those advanced materials so I can eat 10^32 Kelvin every night. I'm hooked..
Threw together a quick render for u guys. I filled in the cladding on MT and cut in SST. The Winthrop tower is probably going to change to mitigate shadows but as we stand now this is what were looking at for the future. Looks nice and dense and also has a well positioned peak.
https://postimage.org/
sure and it's a totally valid point (no pun intended), but the reason i singled out custom house and the fed is that it's clear that you *can* -- even with height restrictions and exorbitant development costs -- be more creative than just a box (or a box with a slanty roof). i mean, hell: united shoe machinery is nowhere near max height and is creative with its profile. exchange place doesnt have a pointy peak or anything, but it plays with what is, essentially, a box/rectangle shape in an interesting way. 60 state, as well. as much as one federal and one beacon are (rightly) despised as phenomenally unimaginative, heavy brown lumps of nothing, between the two i just referenced (60 state, exchange), the two from my previous post (customs, fed) as well as IP and even the preggers building, stuff that went up in past decades was -- on average -- more likely to be a little daring. these days we're getting a lot of stuff and it's happening fast, which is very exciting, but it's almost all glass boxes with nothing to distinguish. you can work with FAA and $$$ limitations in ways more adventurous that just a rectangle. i'm not advocating for a 900-foot sagrada familia, i'm just disappointed that in the midst of this awesome and exciting building boom, we're not getting anything more interesting than MT and avalon. if the pelli upskirt tower winds up happening, that'll be the exception -- and i really hope it does happen -- but until then it's a bit of a disappointment, aesthetically. mostly unrelated, but: please cap the roof on MT...
sorry to go off topic. to bring it back around -- please do something less dull with the profile of SST
ChrisBrat -- some good points but you blend together things from too many different eras
Think of the old FAA limit being 100 ft [Boston's limit except for Church steeples] -- so when the very valuable land of the Boston Fire was rapidly rebuilt in the 1870's and 1880's
We got a whole lot of 100 ft buildings along Washington St. No one thought of building taller until the Custom House project came along in the early 20th C. It was Federal which meant the architect could thumb his nose at the City Zoning. City Zoning adapted and a straight 155 ft limit was introduced followed by a setback bonus system
This unleashed the frenzy of building taller that occurred in the immediate post WWI period -- such as USM [26 stories], Federal Courthouse and Post Office [345 ft], Suffolk County Courthouse [330 ft] and of course New England Telephone on Franklin
Then nothing new until the weather Beacon Hancock challenged the Custom House in the immediate Post WWII period.
Later another entity with somewhat unusual rules to play by -- the Boston Federal Reserve created the washboard
all good points and i do (and did) realize all that, but that doesn't change the reality that we have a bunch of buildings that went up in the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s that -- while hardly "game changers" or jaw-on-the-floor innovative in design -- managed to not just be rectangles (or rectangles with somewhat slanted roofs). i'd take more 60 states or exchange places or IPs over all the non-descript glass boxes we're getting now in a heartbeat.
It's interesting that when many of those buildings were built especially international place the contemporaries hated them too bad we can't find any of the globe stories about how IP is covered with paper doll Palladian windows