I sunk an unreasonable amount of time on that skyscraper page.
Although #1 and #2 are from the 70's and 60's respectively, #3-6 are new buildings (fingers crossed on SST) and #9 is the new State Street HQ. It is good to see that although we moan about no new "tallest in Boston" coming through, there is a decent number of new construction in the top 10.
It's all relative! I am typically on that multiple times every week. I enjoy pairing Boston up against other cities (put the other city in the search first so they don't muddle up the Boston searches) and will compare how they match up across the Top 100 combined (ie the first 4 pages).
We are doing well with that #3-6, although obviously 6 isn't out of the ground and shouldn't even be listed as U/C yet. Also, #3 is possibly #2 since we don't really know the true height of 1 Dalton, and State Street is probably really #7 but they just have it as an even 600' for now. Of course, once we replace half of the Top 10 in under 10 years, then we are more than ever crying out for a new tallest to be built in Boston. If you go by "deserving" using the criteria of (A) how old our tallest is, (B) how tall our tallest is on the national/world stage, and (C) how well the city is doing in general from a construction standpoint, I'd say at this point there is not a single city IN THE WORLD more "deserving" of a new tallest building than Boston. I would have put Miami there due to their insane boom, but they recently built a mid 800's and continue to raise the bar. I would have put Sydney there for sure but suddenly they have multiple 800's. I mean, what other city could we possibly put other than Boston? Maybe Baltimore because their tallest is so pathetic? (certainly not because it's booming like Boston) Really, I challenge everybody here to name a more deserving city on the planet using the 3 criteria above.