Trump on the hunt in hub: Mogul?s empire eyeing properties

Miami Beach is not all skyscrapers, and has a lot of potential. It is an Art Deco version of the South End. Go have a Planter's Punch at the Avalon or the Delano. The run down parts of Miami Beach are urban cool (with the danger that goes with it.) The Miami Deco Preservation League (www.mdpl.org) has images of some of the more commonly known spots on its website. Sorry to stray...
 
BostonObserver said:
so, what about Donald Trump.......
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Very well, my literal minded friend. Trump's interest in acquiring the Plainfield Raceway in Plainville, MA doesn't seem to be bearing fruit. I suspect that most of Trump's interest in "Hub Properties" is tied to a future expansion of legalized gambling, and that his hand will remain hidden until the Governor pushes it through.
 
The Donald watched the Pats Jaguars game from the Kraft family luxury box. A Trump Tower at Patriot Place?????
 
Personally, I found Le Defense not much fun to walk around. The arch is interesting, and the library building, not much else.

Re: Trump -- if we're looking to the Donald for an architectural statement for Boston, anything other than height, I think we'll be disappointed. Has he built anything interesting?
 
Re: Trump on the hunt in hub: Mogul’s empire eyeing properties

Trump Towers in Las Vegas, it's all gold (only one tower completed atm) and looks quite good and interesting imo.

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That tower is about as subtle and tasteful as Trump's hair...
 
nm88 said:
For Boston?
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Of course not, that's why it says he is eyeing properties in Boston. And yes he does have towers of interests being built. Look at the trump tower in Chicago.

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The one he is building in Toronto is really good too.

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It's a matter of taste of course, and i personally find that Las Vegas tower to be hideous. Maybe it works in Las Vegas, but the gold is very tacky.

I also despise his Chicago Tower:


However, The NYC one is nice, but out of scale for Boston:



I am very fond of the Toronto design and think something like this could fit in Boston. I especially like to lower portions as they fit a dense streetscape nicely:




 
New Orleans also had a decent proposal though after the event of Katrina, its highly unlikely that this one will be built anytime soon.

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The Trump casino in Las Vegas is really not a good looking tower....Gold??? The ones in Chicago and Toronto however, are good looking towers.
 
Ya, the Toronto one is my dream tower. I absolutely love that one, it would fit nicely in almost any major city in the US, and this is the type of tower Boston needs.
 
Call me crazy, but why would we want something so generic that it would suit any city? Is that architecture? Is that urban design? Is that Boston?

Most of the samples displayed here (how many actually built?) seem variations on a standard theme. There's nothing all that wrong with any of them, IMO. They seem rather interchangeable, like the cities they may inhabit. But why desire something like that?

My personal preference (not for Boston) would be the NY tower (again, was it built?) -- looks like NY, feels like NY, has NY height, and I admire its dark restraint, which seems un-Tump-like to me.
 
The New York one does exist, and it's very elegant looking (again, out of scale for Boston although i wish we could build so high on such small footprints).

Chicago is currently under construction and nearing completion (in fact, Discovery did a special on the glass paneling for the Trump Chicago). The New Orleans rendering looks nearly identical to the Chicago one, except presumably smaller.

The only similarities i see between the Toronto rendering and the Chicago/ New Orleans renderings would be the series of set-backs from bottom to top and the small spire on top of the one constant facade.

I said the Toronto rendering was my favorite of the three we had previously posted and that it could fit in Boston. I never said it was exactly what i hoped for in Boston. What I like about it is the well proportioned street-front, and the different materials at different elevations on the building. I think something similar would work well in this city.

In my opinion, the base of the Chicago tower looks like a suburban office building (actually reminds me of the Westin in Waltham to an extent) with a glass tower jutting out of the top.

I guess what i'm hopeful for is some innovation from the Donald. Not every tower has to be totally unique to work (111 Huntington is successful and modern, yet it could work anywhere), and i think Trump could bring something new and exciting to Boston... or at least something new.
 
Cojapo said:
The Trump casino in Las Vegas is really not a good looking tower....Gold??? The ones in Chicago and Toronto however, are good looking towers.
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Gold would never work in Boston, but in the desert climate of Las Vegas, with the sunset, i think gold works.
 
DarkFenX said:
It can go the other way around. It really depends on whether the person prefer skyline over urban spaces. For me, I prefer skyline over urban spaces and thus looking at urban space for me is like looking at futurama over the hot girl.
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I see your point, but at the same time I don't really understand it.

Skylines like La Defense (or at least the urbanity they represent) are a dime a dozen (see Houston, Charlotte, or really any downtown of any modern city) whereas Paris is, well, Paris. There is no other urban space like it on the planet

To each his own I suppose.
 
I would actually be happier NOT having a Trump tower in Boston. His Buildings all stink in my opinion, and he is an ass. I wouldn't want a tower in this city that stands out with his stamp on it. I think his buildings are going to ruin the Chicago and Toronto skylines. His buildings "work" in NY, because they are just lost in the thousands of other buildings.
 
I was in Vegas a few weeks ago and the Trump building is actually quite nice in person. You have to see it in its context. With garish buildings, erupting volcanoes, gondoliers and exploding pirate ships in the neighborhood, the Trump building is actually an exercise in restraint. And in the clear desert air, looks crisp and, well, classy... as far as classy goes in Vegas.
 
Houston's skyline is aweful. I was there about 3 years ago. I love height and I love denisty, but I don't like laxed zoning regulations that allow a 150 meter tower next to a 100 year old, single family home. In Houston's case, there are no zoning laws. That is what frustrates me about projects in Boston. There are certain places that highrises should be encouraged. I don't think that South Boston or the Longwood area would be good places for a 150+ meter tower, but there is no reason height should be a concern in downtown, or even along the Pike air rights parcels. Maybe the Donald should take over the Nashua St project since the Jacobs' are NEVER going to build what was approved more than 4 years ago!
 
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