The Clarendon

[briv]

There are a lot of bad things to say about this building, IMO, but its worst crime is this:

Look how it--permanently--disrupts Stuart St. The Jury, two buildings down, deliberately added-on to meet the height of the rest of Stuart St. The Clarendon renders its efforts pointless, and seems like it could care less. How do its designers justify this?

I can only speculate, but I think this little building's inhabitants may have something to do with it(and, perhaps, the Clarendon's mysterious reorientation from its earlier scheme):

 

[bdurden]

Aren't these the types of things the BRA should be catching?

 

[PaulC]

I think Columbus Center will block that view

 

[tmac9wr]

I think Columbus Center will block that view

LOL! Columbus Center!

KentXie, I agree that at some angles this building looks really thin. A great angle is if you're on Stuart St, looking from the Pru.

 

[bbfen]

Aren't these the types of things the BRA should be catching?

LOL. Is it #funnyfriday? The BRA ...

 

[Mike]

From www.lesvants.com

 

[Chessplayer]

From www.lesvants.com

So what's going on between the two buildings, a park?

 

[kz1000ps]

In between the Clarendon and that white office building? It's a park/daycare playground.

 

[ablarc]

^ Silly use of valuable urban land.

 

[Chessplayer]

^ Silly use of valuable urban land.

If you build on it you're anti-children.

 

[ablarc]

Aren't these the types of things the BRA should be catching?

Don't the BRA's aesthetic perceptions derive from those of Menino and the NIMBYs?

 

[shiz02130]

Government regulation by a planning board with monopolistic powers doesn't work.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

They switch from limestone to brick on the back side. I think it works, especially since you are never going to see that part unless you are up close.

 

[czsz]

Why do the all-glass sections look so much nastier from further away?

 

[ablarc]

You can see that parts are just glass veneer stretched over opaque walls.

 

[atlantaden]

You can see that parts are just glass veneer stretched over opaque walls.

Something that should have been done at 45 Province.

 

[czsz]

But not here. Look at what the contrast between the veneer and the real windows looks like from a distance.

 

[WISERPAK]

I like the "glass walls" design, the way it breaks the "square" look of the tower...
But I'm NOT so sure about the color of the brick....
The marked difference between the lower and the higher floors is REALLY good, but....
the choice of that shade.....
I don't know, I want to see the "product" FULLY finished!
And, OF COURSE, we DO HAVE the Hancock tower right across the street.... that makes everything new WAY more difficult to like!

 

[JohnAKeith]

Last night with the Hancock and Clarendon and the "fingernail" moon, it was beautiful.

Guess you'll have to take my word for it!

 

[pelhamhall]

Why the new building wrap on the Hard Rock Building that says "One Back Bay - the finest finishes in Boston"???

Has the Clarendon been re-named? Has it gone rental? (Often condo projects that go rental re-brand to differentiate product) Or is One Back Bay the name of another building that Beal is advertising on its Mass Pike (and Ned) facing Hard Rock building?

I'm confused, and I need a former realtor turned politician to give me answers!!!