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Jahvon09
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WOW!!!!!! The steel is up higher now!! Does anyone know when it might be topped out? I realize that there's more of the concrete core to go. They will also start applying the glass facade soon.
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Meet Fred Clarke, the designer of the tower atop Bostonâs South Station - The Boston Globe
Clarke recently spoke about the evolution to transit-oriented development and the importance of the 678-foot South Station tower to Boston’s skyline.
www.bostonglobe.com
Interview with architect Frank Clarke about the project.
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Meet Fred Clarke, the designer of the tower atop Bostonâs South Station - The Boston Globe
Clarke recently spoke about the evolution to transit-oriented development and the importance of the 678-foot South Station tower to Boston’s skyline.
Interview with architect Frank Clarke about the project.
The comments on the article are pretty negative. I'm holding out some hope for a much-energized main Amtrak concourse, but I am concerned it will be darker than before unless they add some skylights.
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^also today (7/7). Steel rising over I93 coming from the south (passenger side shot):
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Looks like the core has a taller twin right behind it.
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It does stink to lose the view of the fed from there.
Very much agreed. While I'm in favor of SST, the Fed Reserve is a really cool, distinctive structure and SST could be anywhere and is pretty bleh, design-wise.
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Admiring cities is best done from cities and not cars on a freeway. Take the exit! Swing by Dewey Sq! Great views of the fed all around.
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The view of the Fed from here was just of its side though? Is that really much of a loss?
The State Street sign on 1 Lincoln is gone in this picture. I don't know if this was discussed already but I noticed it for the first time while walking around the area last night.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, from that particular sightline, isn't the Fed Reserve Building just a blank wall- no windows or anything? Just a featureless monolith at that sightline. What is actually being lost from that particular angle, except featureless bulk - a very tall poster board would appear the same, no?
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Oh come on, it’s more than just a featureless monolith. If it were, wouldn’t it just fade into obscurity? It’s easily one of the top 5 recognizable buildings on the Boston skyline.
I’ve always considered the slender sides as bookends — a symbol of sorts that protects the contents of the interior.
I hear ya. But from that angle you are looking at a featureless tall wall. Hell, the city could raise a 500 foot tall blank poster board for that particular vista angle if it's so important.
I'm not talking about the building as a whole, which I like. From almost any angle, that building is great. But from the 2 perpendiculars direct from the sides, it's a blank wall. Losing that particular vista angle because the SST will block the blank wall side isn't a real loss - - in fact, at that angle, gaining the SST and losing the blank wall side of The Fed is a large net gain.
****And at night, instead of a rod of darkness at that angle, there will be lights/life radiating out from many of those SST windows
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