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393b40 said:
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I believe right over that fence, east side of the tracks, they are doing foundation work for the tower.

Also - Is it me or has anyone seen a project of this size have such a minimal amount of renderings. For the tower, there are less than 5. Would they still be considering changes? Pulling a Winthrop, last minute? Why else would the marketing be almost non-existent?
 
Gunner02 said:
Also - Is it me or has anyone seen a project of this size have such a minimal amount of renderings. For the tower, there are less than 5. Would they still be considering changes? Pulling a Winthrop, last minute? Why else would the marketing be almost non-existent?
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Maybe they're nervous about the public seeing depictions of the glass tower dwarfing the historic South Station facade? Afraid of blowback against the tower?
 
Charlie_mta said:
Maybe they're nervous about the public seeing depictions of the glass tower dwarfing the historic South Station facade? Afraid of blowback against the tower?
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Aren't they past that part of it mattering what the public thinks? I'm asking for serious, would that really matter now?
 
Gunner02 said:
Aren't they past that part of it mattering what the public thinks? I'm asking for serious, would that really matter now?
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the renders - albeit few in number - have already been in the globe and on the news. it's gonna be hard for anyone at this point to pull a "whaaaaaa? this is unacceptable!" and get any type of traction.

all that said, i'd welcome a redesign (that didn't chop the height at all) that included a spire, more pronounced setbacks (or both!), or something more interesting than the current iteration.
 
chrisbrat said:
i'd welcome a redesign (that didn't chop the height at all) that included a spire
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Adding a spire to SST would almost definitely necessitate height reduction.

IIRC one of the earlier designs with a spire was supposed to be ~900 feet tall, but the FAA deemed it too tall and the spire was dropped from the plans.

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I get that they're working over an active train yard, but isn't this taking forever?
 
677' is the max FAA height. Can't have a spire without lowering the height of the rest of the building. Then we'd have another 1 Financial, except the non-counting antenna would instead be a spire that does count in the official height. I'd rather get what we're getting than shrink the building portion even a single foot. After South Station Tower, we may never live to see another 500' building built in Boston, let alone a new tallest. So we'd better just take what we can get at this point. It's all going to be an underbuilt, utilitarian plateau of buildings wider than they are tall from here on out. I hate to say all hope is lost, but all hope is lost.
 
Gunner02 said:
I believe right over that fence, east side of the tracks, they are doing foundation work for the tower.

Also - Is it me or has anyone seen a project of this size have such a minimal amount of renderings. For the tower, there are less than 5. Would they still be considering changes? Pulling a Winthrop, last minute? Why else would the marketing be almost non-existent?
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Are you sure youve seen them all? I feel like theres just as many if not more than many projects. This isnt even all of them.

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Progress from today. Its pretty noticeable something big is coming.
 

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It's kind of a funny movie in a very dark way, but "Don't Look Up" has a very short scene here at South Station. It's streaming on Netflix now. I recognized a few other locations like the old Manulife Building in the Seaport, the MFA, and several other downtown locations that filled in for New York City. Boston was actually never mentioned. It was supposed to be New York City and Michigan.
 
Java King said:
It's kind of a funny movie in a very dark way, but "Don't Look Up" has a very short scene here at South Station. It's streaming on Netflix now. I recognized a few other locations like the old Manulife Building in the Seaport, the MFA, and several other downtown locations that filled in for New York City. Boston was actually never mentioned. It was supposed to be New York City and Michigan.
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Yup, that block of Devonshire between Franklin & Milk (1 Federal is clearly visible in a scene, as is the Elephant & Castle signage) is really being flogged by Hollywood of late as a "Manhattan" stand-in--this, and also the upcoming "Christmas Carol" regurgitation, and I'm convinced I've seen it in other recent films shot in the Financial District but I just can't recall which ones. The Massachusetts film tax credit is really working!

(if one is only concerned with how many productions it's luring and the rah-rah/sentimental fluff publicity it generates--in terms of overall economics, it's a travesty.)

EDIT: Franklin, not Federal...
 
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