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TheRifleman said:
^^^^^^
This rendering feels like futuristic corporate robot America and takes the Character out of Boston.

I'm not crazy about this ground level rendering. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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Nope. This is good stuff.

I am not sure what more you could be asking for for essentially a replacement of the train shed that is there now?


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Re: South Station Tower

TheRifleman said:
^^^^^^
This rendering feels like futuristic corporate robot America and takes the Character out of Boston.

I'm not crazy about this ground level rendering. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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I respectfully disagree, as well. The columns are well hidden and integrated with the adjacent station entrance. I remember at an earlier community meeting, Hines said that it wanted the atrium/rotunda to resemble Rowes Wharf. I think that it looks, from the rendering anyway, like a good modern representation. Better than concrete columns encased in some cheap material and a flat ceiling.

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BostonDrew said:
The article has an image I hadn't seen before that I figured was worth sharing
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It's like the train station in Westworld! Love! Although...it didn't end too well for them (or we'll have to wait 'til 2018 and see)
 
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I'm a fan of the vaulted ceiling thing.
 
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I think it is intended to evoke the former glass trainsheds that once existed above South Station and Penn Station. I like it.
 
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TheRifleman said:
^^^^^^
This rendering feels like futuristic corporate robot America and takes the Character out of Boston.

I'm not crazy about this ground level rendering. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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While I think a city with such historical roots should be tinkered with only with extreme care, I like the contrast of walking across the green way from the gleaming high-rises of the financial district to the old, quaint, north end. That mixing of worlds is what makes Boston great.
 
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Would that stick out in front of the station at the corner of Summer and Atlantic? Would the building be built on top of it? I like it a lot. South Station is so meh.
 
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Czervik.Construction said:
Would that stick out in front of the station at the corner of Summer and Atlantic? Would the building be built on top of it? I like it a lot. South Station is so meh.
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It's behind the historic station at the foot of the tracks. Between the waiting room and the tower.
 
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That article says it's 690'. I was under the impression that it was 677'.
 
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Man about town said:
Does that mean our buildings will get shorter as sea levels rise?
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Buildings are measured from ground level. Otherwise all of the tallest buildings in the country would be in Denver.
 
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Hubman said:
The Metlife Tower? I heard it was supposed to go 100 stories but couldn't because of the depression.
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Yes, it would have been a masterpiece:

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Supposedly it was built to support all those additional floors and still could too. The money just dried up.
 
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odurandina said:
Umm check the dates on the Pan Am building. :)

btw, when it was completed it was the 7th tallest building in the world.

and possibly the ugliest.
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There are a gazillion Metlife Buildings. You must be thinking of the new one.

The one I'm thinking of was built in the '20s.
 
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SlothofDespond said:
Yes, it would have been a masterpiece:

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Supposedly it was built to support all those additional floors and still could too. The money just dried up.
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Jesus.

I thought it was the other one that was unfinished.

Those are amazing towers. However, I'm happy with the unfinished North Building.
 
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This isn't specifically about the South Station Tower, but I can't think of a better place to post it.

Blackstone is selling their lease on the existing station building:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...ory.html?s_campaign=bdc:article:stub#comments

Lots of upside to that lease once the tower is completed, but a fair amount of construction disruption in the interim, with the possibility that the disrupting interim coincides (partly) with a down cycle. Maybe Blackstone has made enough money on the lease in the decade since they bought Equity Properties, and wants to let someone else take that short-to-midterm risk (and get the long-term upside, too, of course).
 
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