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chrisbrat said:
Like One Congress?

I’d like MORE of what you describe, but One Congress, at least, delivers.

SST is way less underwhelming than Winthrop which is a total snooze.
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Winthrop did an impressive speedrun of becoming background filler that I never notice. And as a skyline element, everything Winthrop does SST does better, in which case I have even less of a reason to notice it.
 
Winthrop currently has the most impactful night lighting of the 5 tallest new buildings built. It remains to be seen whether South Station Tower will live up to the renders. State Street's is solid, but from too narrow of a viewpoint and is otherwise practically invisible from most angles other than the sign. Millennium Tower and 1 Dalton both completely disappear into the night.
 
I walk (and drive) along the Greenway often and am at North Station/the Garden, as well as East Boston a lot, so -- to me -- One Congress is plenty visible, but you're (of course) correct that from perhaps more traditional money-shot angles of the skyline -- Charles River Basin and anywhere West of the city -- it can disappear.
 
chrisbrat said:
Like One Congress?

I’d like MORE of what you describe, but One Congress, at least, delivers.

SST is way less underwhelming than Winthrop which is a total snooze.
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Sure One Congress, and older version maybe 111 Huntington. Most everything else is just so boxy... we need more shapes and rooflines.
 
goody said:
Sure One Congress, and older version maybe 111 Huntington. Most everything else is just so boxy... we need more shapes and rooflines.
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Hard agree. Menino maybe deserved some (a lot?) of the ribbing he took, overall, but his, "Sorry, fellas -- flat roofs don't cut it" comment (to the developers of 111 Huntington, when the initial proposal didn't have a crown) was spot-on (even if architecture folks make -- or made -- fun of 111's little hat).

Spires, points, rounded edges, setbacks (and lots more nighttime lighting) -- more, more, more (one upside of SST, which has setbacks, even if they're not super-dramatic).
 
Mike said:
I'm happy the 1999 version did not get built. I like this tower.
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I'm sure it's somewhere within these 248 pages, but do you happen to have handy a link to that '99 proposal? I remember a bunch -- some truly awful; some, like the current (but with a spire) were slightly better than what we got -- but I don't recall the one you're referencing.
 
chrisbrat said:
I'm sure it's somewhere within these 248 pages, but do you happen to have handy a link to that '99 proposal? I remember a bunch -- some truly awful; some, like the current (but with a spire) were slightly better than what we got -- but I don't recall the one you're referencing.
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Hmmmm... now that I see it again, I guess I agree with the above assessments. I do wish we had more spires, though ("more" as in "more than just the one on the old JHT").
 
type001 said:
The old design from all other angles looked horrible.
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I found that render in here, literally within the first post:

Proposed But Never Built

Or yet to be built?? As I was doing the"what was proposed and what was built" thread I found I had some of these I,ll add more as I find them and of course add one's you might have! and do I dare put the fan piers,gateway cntr,SST,TNP ect,here? en%20what%20was%20built/xcranes464.jpg[/IMG]...
archboston.com

The 2 shorter ones to the left weren't built either. Hopefully we get something better than these proposals. With the market flipping on its head maybe it's time for them to go back to the drawing board and bring us another tall residential tower.

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DZH22 said:
I found that render in here, literally within the first post:

Proposed But Never Built

Or yet to be built?? As I was doing the"what was proposed and what was built" thread I found I had some of these I,ll add more as I find them and of course add one's you might have! and do I dare put the fan piers,gateway cntr,SST,TNP ect,here? en%20what%20was%20built/xcranes464.jpg[/IMG]...
archboston.com

The 2 shorter ones to the left weren't built either. Hopefully we get something better than these proposals. With the market flipping on its head maybe it's time for them to go back to the drawing board and bring us another tall residential tower.

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They cannot build a tall res tower in the other locations south of the current tower. You enter FAA 300 ft. restricted airspace just south of the current tower. (In fact it seems they likely fudged the edge of the airspace restriction for the current tower.)
 
I used to save anything and everything I saw related to Boston development proposals. Here's the full skyline view of the original design.
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And a couple other different versions of the rendering...
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And some other random artifacts, mostly of the 2nd major proposed iteration
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And this one. Not sure what version this was... shorter, no spire, but no setbacks either
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