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Is that where the South Bay tower was to be built?
 
Yep.

Edit: South Bay Tower was to be built at the site of the current MassDOT building (where those pics were taken from), not that mound.
 
Is an earth cap environmentally friendly? Or is it a case where if Wynn wanted to build a casino on it they would need to do some serious remediation?
 
617 said:
Is an earth cap environmentally friendly? Or is it a case where if Wynn wanted to build a casino on it they would need to do some serious remediation?
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In this case it is as long as you don't touch it. Once you start disturbing asbestos, the risk of it becoming airborne is pretty high and remediation costs starts to shoot up so CAT decided to just cap it and move on. That's the story anyway.

If Wynn wanted to spend the money, he certainly could build a casino there. Not sure how big it could be though.

I don't think you'll see a building there in this lifetime.
 
I love the cool, minty blues and greens balanced out by brown here. Makes me think of the Pacific Northwest.
 
Overall I like it, but I keep focusing on the south side roof line of the tower. Something still looks unresolved here. It is clearly the back side to whatever roof terrace is happening on the north side, and the overall concept has been there since the earliest renders. Those don't show much else going on though. The brown is directly above the gray, with nothing as a transition, it looks odd, and one dimensional. Where did the multi-green go for that?
 
Great shots. The last one in particular is very placid. Where were they taken?
 
This building looks like it's straight out of Miami. (only they would build it 3 times taller)

Driving in from the South, this obscures an epic skyline view (including view of MT for a while) and is absolutely the cheapest, most hideous looking thing in the visual panaroma. It's like doodling in some bird shit on the face of the Mona Lisa.

I hate it, and nominate it for worst building of the year/decade. On one hand it looks like it still has a lot of construction to go, but on the other hand I think it's basically done. That's not a good look.

I appreciate that they were going for something different, but the tower is just so tacky, cheap, and out of place. Awful awful awful.
 
DZH22 said:
This building looks like it's straight out of Miami. (only they would build it 3 times taller)

Driving in from the South, this obscures an epic skyline view (including view of MT for a while) and is absolutely the cheapest, most hideous looking thing in the visual panaroma. It's like doodling in some bird shit on the face of the Mona Lisa.

I hate it, and nominate it for worst building of the year/decade. On one hand it looks like it still has a lot of construction to go, but on the other hand I think it's basically done. That's not a good look.

I appreciate that they were going for something different, but the tower is just so tacky, cheap, and out of place. Awful awful awful.
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IMHO, Boston desperately needs a bit of Miami injection. We are stuck in a boring red brick, terracotta, glass box, rut.
 
JeffDowntown said:
IMHO, Boston desperately needs a bit of Miami injection. We are stuck in a boring red brick, terracotta, glass box, rut.
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To me, Miami is synonymous with cheap, ugly, and tacky. This would be perfect down there. Up here, it looks like a homeless person crashing a fancy party.
 
It is a bit of fun occupying a crappy spot next to a stinking traffic sewer. So I like it.
 
I actually like it a lot. You probably know better about the materials DZH22, but the wood paneling or should I say fake wood paneling looks nice to me, especially with the color pallet. I also really like the depth it creates from the skyline as you drive in from the south.
 
mcus29 said:
I actually like it a lot. You probably know better about the materials DZH22, but the wood paneling or should I say fake wood paneling looks nice to me, especially with the color pallet. I also really like the depth it creates from the skyline as you drive in from the south.
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I'm not an expert on materials by any means. It just looks unfinished, like the color of a building still U/C before the final cladding, except this IS the final cladding. The dark brown at the top in particularly is like... wtf? Thank God none of the huge upcoming towers are supposed to be this tacky. Build this at 700-800', plop it right next to the Hancock, and we'd be well on our way to emulating Miami's (subpar) skyline evolution.
 
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