The St Regis Residences (former Whiskey Priest site) | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport

[M.Morgan11]

I don't think the street-facing or waterfront sides are that bad, and the last side wheel boring looks to be mostly blocked by the building next to it, so it's not a big deal in my mind.

 

[RandomWalk]

The faceted facade is the winner. I know that the wall against Pier 4 is the vertical circulation, but the cantilevered part is not as graceful as the faceted side. The sliders on the water side still bug me.

 

[Gunner02]

The thought of this design twisting up to 800' is incredible. Although, for this particular project that would be no sooner than a 2029 delivery. Literally.

 

[dhawkins]

Saw the sun rise today.

 

[JS38]

See inside exclusive, luxury new condo being built along Boston Harbor

One of the most exclusive residential properties on Boston's waterfront is nearing completion.

www.wcvb.com

 

[stellarfun]

Ouch… this building has a good side and a few meh sides.

East facade A+
South facade C+
West facade C-
North facade B-

I fear that the majority of people will only see the east facade from the rear view mirror.

 

[Vivanna]

East facade A+
South facade C+
West facade C-
North facade B-

I fear that the majority of people will only see the east facade from the rear view mirror.

I think a lot of people will see this angle from the south, pretty awesome IMO:

 

[taketern]

 

[BeeLine]

IMG_8496 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8497 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8498 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr

 

[xec]

by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_8497 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
by Bos Beeline, on Flickr

Wow! Just. Wow!
I wonder if this was intentional or accidental.

 

[BeeLine]

IMG_0065 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_0073 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_0076 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_0077 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_0090 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr
IMG_0108 by Bos Beeline, on Flickr

 

[stellarfun]

Kind of disappointed that the mirrored, faceted glass is bending shapes and creating distorted reflections.

 

[cburns]

Kind of disappointed that the mirrored, faceted glass is bending shapes and creating distorted reflections.

are you speaking to the glass quality, or the physical orientation of the facets?

 

[Equilibria]

Kind of disappointed that the mirrored, faceted glass is bending shapes and creating distorted reflections.

I guess so, but they seem to have made good use of it for the Ukranian flag...

 

[stellarfun]

are you speaking to the glass quality, or the physical orientation of the facets?

Both. The glass is highly reflective, and the faceted angles are acting as a lens. The physics of optics are far, far above my paygrade

Snell's law allows to find the slope of an optical surface needed to redirect a given incoming ray into a given outgoing ray. Since a prism comprises two surfaces the problem of redirecting one ray with a prism is underdetermined. In a range of situations it is possible to determine a prism such as to simultaneously match two given incoming rays into two given output rays. This allows to tailor 2D Fresnel optics for finite sources and targets. If source and target subtend equal angles as seen from the Fresnel lens, then the facets are symmetric resembling the minimum deviation configuration, which also minimizes chromatic aberration based an the dispersion in the material of the lens.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260969342_Tailored_Fresnel_optics_II_the_facets

 

[Vivanna]

Kind of disappointed that the mirrored, faceted glass is bending shapes and creating distorted reflections.

Yeah, they should have just made it a flat surface... so then it would look like... well, like a glass box.

 

[DZH22]

I'm starting to think this building is only delivering 1 good side out of 4, and this ain't it.

IMG_3219 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_3220 by David Z, on Flickr

 

[Suffolk 83]

 

[Vagabond]

Every time I walk by I think they took influence from the Whiskey Priest drunken vision... The walls are leaning!

 

[FK4]

Hard to tell since it’s not finished