Boston02124
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Ugh, yeah - Accordia's was by far my favorite. Not a fan of the Lendlease proposal, but I think the green glass/etc on Accordia would have really made a nice addition. Then again - probably would have been the first thing VE'd out when the FAA chopped the height off. I'd say say to the original Menino era proposals - yeah some interesting but all were completely unfeasible due to FAA limits. That is to say - officials must have known the FAA limits and ignored them for the RFP which generated some cool ideas, but, we can't really judge what we got against what could have been since they all, too, would have had to be drastically changed to be built in reality. I will say - even in the magical realm of the FAA and Logan not existing, Millennium's proposed was still mid-tier at best even not cut down (although certainly had by far the best overall financial package for the city).
Ugh, yeah - Accordia's was by far my favorite. Not a fan of the Lendlease proposal, but I think the green glass/etc on Accordia would have really made a nice addition. Then again - probably would have been the first thing VE'd out when the FAA chopped the height off. I'd say say to the original Menino era proposals - yeah some interesting but all were completely unfeasible due to FAA limits. That is to say - officials must have known the FAA limits and ignored them for the RFP which generated some cool ideas, but, we can't really judge what we got against what could have been since they all, too, would have had to be drastically changed to be built in reality. I will say - even in the magical realm of the FAA and Logan not existing, Millennium's proposed was still mid-tier at best even not cut down (although certainly had by far the best overall financial package for the city).
I mainly see this coming from the South and it looks OK - will hold out my judgement for the full crown.
I like the last two buildings you mentioned. Don’t think there will be much cooperation with builders for further construction with Wu in office.$10 says Boston will continue to let Millennium Partners fill the skyline with boring blue glass nothingburgers, shiny self-storage towers, as developer and City are comfy bedfellows now. The very best this thing can look is from a distance when it appears to meld with Millennium Tower and is seen as one structure; then it becomes somewhat interesting, if not attractive. Otherwise, this ranks down there with 1 Internat'l and 1 Financial.
$10 says Boston will continue to let Millennium Partners fill the skyline with boring blue glass nothingburgers, shiny self-storage towers, as developer and City are comfy bedfellows now. The very best this thing can look is from a distance when it appears to meld with Millennium Tower and is seen as one structure; then it becomes somewhat interesting, if not attractive. Otherwise, this ranks down there with 1 Internat'l and 1 Financial.
I like the last two buildings you mentioned. Don’t think there will be much cooperation with builders for further construction with Wu in office.
>Otherwise, this ranks down there with 1 Internat'l
What? 1 International Place ranks close to the top for me. Lots of distinguishing features and looks great from the harbor.
$10 says Boston will continue to let Millennium Partners fill the skyline with boring blue glass nothingburgers, shiny self-storage towers, as developer and City are comfy bedfellows now.
Is there a list of stuff that has been proposed AND approved under Wu? I feel like everything currently is still Walsh-era.
On the other hand, after South Station Tower gets built we all might be dead before we see another 500' building in this city (we'll be stuck at 23... forever!).
I'd also note that would be way more the function of the market than the mayor. Things were starting to look bad for tall buildings for awhile now from the pandemic to economics. Anything going tall would need to be mostly residential (or a vanity project for a more traditional business).
The blue is an effective counterpoint to the brown, while at the same time complimenting it. But I agree, time to add a third color to the skyline!Once South Station Tower is up we'll have a sea of blue glass, very different from Boston's last skyline iteration. I hope the next set of major towers, whenever we are able to get them, have more colorful and solid materials in their designs. I feel like we're already saturated and South Station Tower is just getting out of the ground, plus there's even more blue glass on the way in the Back Bay.
In a vacuum though, this is a solid tower. We're just getting too much blue glass overall and need to demand a bit more imagination from developers going forward.