Waterside Place 1A | 505 Congress Street | Seaport

[Semass]

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The light gray material is identical to the Suffolk U dorm on Somerset street.

 

[BeeLine]

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Crane is on the way up.


Waterside Place 11/11

 

[BeeLine]

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Steel going up on the eastern (D Str.) side of the site.
Waterside Place 11/29

 

[DowntownDave]

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Core looks complete:

 

[BeeLine]

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Waterside Place 12/15 viewed from the s. by snagshead67, on Flickr


Waterside Place looking west to east. 12/15 by snagshead67, on Flickr
Steel rapidly going up on the east end of the site. I'm surprised at how close the building is going to be to the busway.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

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A part of me wants this project to stop immediately and just have those two cores standing there forever.

 

[datadyne007]

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A part of me wants this project to stop immediately and just have those two cores standing there forever.

I had this exact thought a few minutes ago. There's something about those cores that's just beautiful. </soft spot for concrete>

 

[itchy]

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A part of me wants this project to stop immediately and just have those two cores standing there forever.

They look like coastal WWII U-boat spotting towers. There's one in Hull, and I've seen them in Jersey, Long Island and North Carolina as well.

Alternatively, there's a comparison to be made to Berlin Wall guard towers...

 

[Ron Newman]

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They look like coastal WWII U-boat spotting towers. There's one in Hull

Also in Rockport (where it is part of Halibut Point State Park), and a few in Nahant.

 

[Beton Brut]

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A part of me wants this project to stop immediately and just have those two cores standing there forever.

Their proportions are really nice. Like Yamasaki's WTC or Stone's Amoco Building.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

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Or this bad boy:

US Mission to the UN.

 

[ssresident]

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Also in Rockport (where it is part of Halibut Point State Park), and a few in Nahant.

Sorry to keep going off topic, but Marshfield too: http://www.coastdefense.com/marshfield.htm

 

[quinninin]

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From Saturday

Mock up of the cladding:

 

[kz1000ps]

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[BeeLine]

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[SeamusMcFly]

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I really like that the logo for John Hancock is now on the Manulife building. Just carries so much more recognizability and obviously history. I think I've even started hearing it referred to as Hancock now. I only noticed that a couple months ago.

 

[Suffolk 83]

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People on here hate that building right? The Renaissance or whatever next to it is waaay worse.

 

[czsz]

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That Manulife building is one of the better ones in the Seaport, architecturally. From what I recall, most objections were concerned with its base?

 

[Beton Brut]

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That Manulife building is one of the better ones in the Seaport, architecturally.

If I remember correctly, one of the young guns at SOM NYC designed it with the materials palate that paid homage to Gordon Bunshaft's Lever House.

 

[jass]

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So what is it thats being built? I lost track after it became a giant Xanadu and then got cancelled.