What building would you nominate for replacement

Back Bay Hilton's gotta go, though it does look slightly better these days than when first built......Mass. Pike Towers could use a good implosion as well. (make it a double!)
 
lapradetom said:
Back Bay Hilton's gotta go, though it does look slightly better these days than when first built......Mass. Pike Towers could use a good implosion as well. (make it a double!)
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^....I meant Mass. Ave Towers.
 
atlantaden said:
The state service center!

The land area alone that this monstrosity takes up is more than enough reason to bulldoze it out of existence!
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Easily the worst building in downtown. It is ironic, in a sense, because it is the center for the state's mental health program, when just the building alone makes me apoplectic.
 
lapradetom said:
Back Bay Hilton's gotta go, though it does look slightly better these days than when first built......Mass. Pike Towers could use a good implosion as well. (make it a double!)
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There is momentum, I believe, in replacing the Hilton. We are talking 20 years, but the air rights allow for a 1000 ft. building. Thinking about the "high spine", it is quite clear that the Hilton, at some point, will say to themselves that they are next to the 4 Seasons, and can go taller. This building shouldn't last long.
 
Cortes said:
There is momentum, I believe, in replacing the Hilton. We are talking 20 years, but the air rights allow for a 1000 ft. building. Thinking about the "high spine", it is quite clear that the Hilton, at some point, will say to themselves that they are next to the 4 Seasons, and can go taller. This building shouldn't last long.
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^That's encouraging. But they may not be allowed to tear it down. It's on the National Register of Historic Concrete Bunker's isn't it? :p
 
Fiduciary trust building in the first post and Tremont on the common x100. Also the Sheraton and Hilton, but I don't think these are as bad because they are slowly being engulfed and are soon to be invisible.

Honorable mention going to the Boston Marriott at Copley....for some reason this always gets passed by but this may be the most hideous building in Boston. I say that because most of the other hideous buildings are at least hidden. This building is front and center. The massing throws off the high spine, its ugly as hell, and its in a prime location between the pru and hancock. Its not as bad when viewed from cambirdge, but when viewed from the south end it throws off the whole high spine flow. It looks horrendous from the south end/south of Boston in general. The high spine is kind of a line that points towards downtown, and then this thing throws a zig zag in the middle of it. A regular box would have been much better IMO in this spot.
 
Maybe the Hynes Convention Center can go? We already have a huge facility better suited for the times, isn't the Hynes a bit redundant? Tear it down, and build Boston's first supertall right there!
 
Dont see it happening but if they ever tore down the Hynes it would be nice to get a new road between the pru and sheraton. Take some of that urban renewal superblock land and connect it to the street grid.
 
lapradetom said:
Maybe the Hynes Convention Center can go? We already have a huge facility better suited for the times, isn't the Hynes a bit redundant? Tear it down, and build Boston's first supertall right there!
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When Mass agreed to casinos, this was my first choice for where to put one. Just imagine a high-roller casino in that location. Forget conventions, the hotels would be packed.
 
I nominate the entire intersection of Arch and Summer. Every single building needs to go. Thankfully, there is thought about St. Anthony's Shrine being moved...
 
that building was slated to be renovated and a few floors added to it back in the 90's nothing was ever done?
 
Beton Brut said:
This.
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Back in the late 90s, early 2000s when I was an early teenager, my friend's mom worked for Barbizon (sp?) Modeling School which was located in the building. We visited a few times in hopes that we'd meet gorgeous models (we didn't) and I remember thinking how out of context the building was. Through raging 13 year old hormones in a modeling agency office, i was still able to identify the building as a turd. I'm not usually so braggy, but that's a point of pride for me.
 
JSic said:
I wonder what was torn down to build this piece of crap.
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The whole Huntington/Mass Ave area got shellacked on many sides the urban renewal club as part of either small-scale city plans, the Christian Science Center plans, and the Prudential Center plans - so I don't know what particular endeavor dropped that spaceship on Mass Ave. That particular building replaced a row of 4-5-6 story apartment buildings, most in the style of similar buildings still standing on Westland, Hemenway, and some of the streets in between. There actually used to be rows on both sides of Mass Ave, but the east-side was also eliminated to open up a view of the Mother Church. These 4-7 story apartment buildings always once stood along both sides of Huntington and were similarly torn down for a motel and those ugly-as-shit concrete towers along Huntington. Here's a photo of the area prior to full-scale renewal, you can a block that's already been cleared in the lower, far-left All of the streets west of Mass Ave used to continue across the street and continue to the east of Mass Ave - the coherent road network was another casualty of urban renewal.
 
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