The Kensington | 665 Washington Street | Downtown

15th floor of 101 Broadway. I gotta go back once there's snow on the ground!
 
Re: Residences at Kensington

I like the tiered effect that the flat topped buildings are creating, kind of like blown up versions of the smaller tier in front of them. If there were a few slightly taller ones in a third tier behind them, maybe some of them over the pike, then from this angle the whole skyline would look long and impressive, especially with what is coming in the Back Bay.
 
Exactly, once Back Bay's skyline connects with China town/Theater district it will be one continuous row of buildings from the Pru to Cambridge but who knows how many years until we see that theres a pretty big gap in between as it is now.
 
I was walking past this area to get to the Backbay the other day for some shopping.

This area is coming out very nice until I walked down Essex Street and ran into a group of recovering drug addicts roaming around the area. I'm not sure if its Baycove or some other methadone clinic located in that area.
That was not a good selling point for me to live in the area.

They should move these centers out WEST somewhere. Is Baycove still located near North Station?
 
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Could have been St. Francis house as well. Supposedly St. Francis declined a multimillion dollar buy-out for their location a few years ago.

I agree the city should be trying to push these things out of the core, but other existing neighborhoods don't want these people either.
 
is there some good reason that Framingham or Sudbury should host these places instead of central Boston? how would moving them help the people they are serving?
 
Even about 50 feet of variations between these buildings would do a lot to not create the buzzcut effect. I feel they should be taller on the downtown side and gradually get smaller the farther they extend out in the back bay direction. After the jacob wirth building is built is will honestly almost make the gap look filled in from most angles because the W hotel comes right after that. I kind of like how we have two separate skylines similar to how NYC does but eventually id like to see one long skyline from the back bay to downtown and then wrap around downtown towards the garden.
 
stick n move said:
Even about 50 feet of variations between these buildings would do a lot to not create the buzzcut effect. I feel they should be taller on the downtown side and gradually get smaller the farther they extend out in the back bay direction. After the jacob wirth building is built is will honestly almost make the gap look filled in from most angles because the W hotel comes right after that. I kind of like how we have two separate skylines similar to how NYC does but eventually id like to see one long skyline from the back bay to downtown and then wrap around downtown towards the garden.
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^ and then eventually into North Point and Kendall
 
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The materials on the lower floors look really cheap to me in person... like dinky strip mall cheap. The the section with the store fronts is too flat and lacks texture. However, the sign looks cool. I wouldn't really care if the tower was awful if the street level was good, but it isn't.
 
The color of the spandrel is sickening, the wavy pattern looks cheap, and the top is probably the worst "crown" in Boston.
 
The base is fine with me and I really like the sign. Everything else is awful: the color, the garage windows, the clashing design (all glass on one side + a terrible attempt to make a crown that only covers a half of the building vs all precast on the other), the blandness of the Boylston Square side, etc.
 
Roof deck:

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"If any building in Boston says luxury, it's The Kensington. The 27-story residency located between the Theatre District and Chinatown features the ultimate urban outdoor space designed by landscape architect firm, Copley Wolff Design Group. The two-level roof deck includes a pool on the upper deck, and lounge seating and outdoor fireplace on the lower deck. "

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/...ad-boston-buzzing-in-2013/#s_the-kensington_s
 
Nice. If only the exterior matched, on some level, the luxe of the interior and the amenities. Never the less the Kensington is a major plus.
 
Ron Newman said:
is there some good reason that Framingham or Sudbury should host these places instead of central Boston? how would moving them help the people they are serving?
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Agree. You might get Fr. Bill's and the havoc that can be Quincy Center after dark, but junkies are from everywhere, just more on Essex Street. There is a methadone clinic along Old Colony Avenue across from the car wash. There is a Tufts sign in front of it. Good location for it. I think there is one behind Mistral as well or there was one there a few years ago. St. Francis House and Pine Street Inn were there a long time before the Ritz and Laconia Lofts. It takes a lot of chutzpah to say move on.
 
TheRifleman said:
I was walking past this area to get to the Backbay the other day for some shopping.

This area is coming out very nice until I walked down Essex Street and ran into a group of recovering drug addicts roaming around the area. I'm not sure if its Baycove or some other methadone clinic located in that area.

That was not a good selling point for me to live in the area.

They should move these centers out WEST somewhere. Is Baycove still located near North Station?
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