The Hub on Causeway (née TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End

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stick n move said:
Speech impediment is a funny way to describe a Boston accent lol. I heard nothing weird but a guy whos probably from one of the rougher areas of Boston. He aint a Kennedy I can tell that much.
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Sounded like a Boston accent with a speech impediment or an outsider doing a terrible job of mimicking the accent.

Suffolk 83 said:
I kinda agree he sounded a little funny, not his normal self. I think maybe they asked him to pronounce his R's more? It sounded like he had marbles in his mouth. He's no young guy these days maybe he had a stroke or something we dont know about.
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Yes, that's what it sounded like!
 
This development is a real game changer for literally tens of thousands of people who will travel through here daily, from the thousands of daily commuters who use North Station, to those who will attend events at the Garden and the smaller music and entertainment venues, to the residents, workers, and visitors in the new buildings above the podium, to the close-in neighbors shopping at the Star Market! I can think of no other development in recent memory that will benefit so many people, in so many ways, on a daily basis. Agree or disagree on the architecture (I'm loving it, including the unusual office tower) but for the ground level experience/public usage/multi event spaces, this whole project is a winner!!
 
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Yeah, I like it quite a bit as well. The industrial look and the homage to the old Garden all work. There's an Asian flavor working through this as well, like something in Tokyo.

Much better end product than the renderings depicted.
 
Charlie_mta said:
...like something in Tokyo.

Much better end product than the renderings depicted.
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Good observation and spot-on. This uses a common template found throughout Tokyo and Osaka: a mixed-use multi-tower complex, with a office tower / office-hotel mixed tower next to a residential tower on a shared podium above a train / subway station. But it’s more than just the template; the actual aesthetic would fit in Tokyo perfectly. A quality podium, and quality tower materials, but with boxy, slightly fat towers.
 
shawn said:
Good observation and spot-on. This uses a common template found throughout Tokyo and Osaka: a mixed-use multi-tower complex, with a office tower / office-hotel mixed tower next to a residential tower on a shared podium above a train / subway station. But it’s more than just the template; the actual aesthetic would fit in Tokyo perfectly. A quality podium, and quality tower materials, but with boxy, slightly fat towers.
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Right on. Check out the hotel brand for the Hub, CitizenM (from the Netherlands). The lobby will spread out to a plaza, on top of the six-story building, for incredible views downtown. I've heard rumors of re-designs and new development for Madison Square Garden, perhaps because they're jealous. In regards to Japan, I've stayed in The Royal Park Shiodome Hotel in Tokyo, a hotel/office mix, and it starts, I think, on the 30th floor (the lobby). The lobby bar looks out to the city from 30 stories up, and in the distance, you can see Mt. Fuji. The coolest hotel I've ever been to. I think CitizenM at the Hub will come close, because you got the Celtics fifty feet away!
 
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Nice pic ruined by that damn state service center and it's attractive chain link fencing!! Why the hell is chain link fencing surrounding this hulk of a concrete mess anyway?
 
atlantaden said:
Why the hell is chain link fencing surrounding this hulk of a concrete mess anyway?
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Because the railings aren't to code and nobody cares enough to fix it with anything other than cheap chain link fences.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't care, just that the powers-that-be don't.
 
atlantaden said:
Nice pic ruined by that damn state service center and it's attractive chain link fencing!! Why the hell is chain link fencing surrounding this hulk of a concrete mess anyway?
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Chain link fences have been up for at least ten years and it's a total joke - the building is right in the middle of downtown and it's actually stunning to think that the state government has let this happen for this long. I believe they were put in place due to some issues of the sharpness of the concrete (not sure if that was rumor to fact tho), but regardless, they're obviously there for some reason and yet whatever that reason is still hasn't actually been addressed.

Moreover, the sidewalk right on Cambridge is often used a parking for by govt officials. Hard to understand how that's acceptable, either. There's a whole thread on this building elsewhere, but it stuns me every time I see those fences and all the Fords parked right on the main drag of downtown Boston, knowing city and state officials must see it every day, and yet nobody has done anything about it... What an image.
 
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Really great contrast in the photo- a dense, pedestrian oriented, mixed use development on top of a transit station, with apartments and hotels and offices... and the State Services Center. A Volpe style development in exchange for new office space seems like the best option.
 
I keep forgetting this has a supermarket. Its great to see another one linked to transit (after DTX)
 
i keep trying to forget the State Service Ctr building exists.

i keep coming up empty.
 
odurandina said:
Interesting branding idea unveiled as reformed parcels trend taller.....

Globe; Major construction projects have remade the area around TD Garden and North Station, which Boston Properties wants to be known as “Uptown.” Above is the view looking out from the new entrance to the MBTA station.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/busines...ston-uptown/TmMMylQu9brZ6eszKd7ABI/story.html
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If by interesting you mean "stupid as @#$%" and "STOP TRYING TO NEW YORK US, DAMNIT!", then I completely agree.


Brian Koop said:
We just kind of made it up.
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No shit, Sherlock!
 
Uptown... no its the Bulfinch triangle. This is Boston, remember? We have shit named after people not lower east sides, uptowns, midtowns...
 
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