Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2
I like Accordia because I feel like the tallest crown in a downtown skyline shouldn't just be all glass. All glass adds some nice pieces to the puzzle but you want that crown jewel when it towers over your entire skyline like that. I feel like this tower out of the rest really is that focal point. I do like the millennium tower a lot, but I feel that concave angled towers make for great additions to skylines because they point towards the focal point. I feel like that center piece needs to be that anchor that doesnt really have one side toward it but multifaceted so its prominent from every angle that everything else gravitates towards. Kinda hard to express what I mean by this but if you look at the Empire State Building, Comcast Center in Philly, the Burj Khalifa, the Shard, even the us bank tower in LA, no matter what angle you look at them it looks like its that anchor piece, and all of the other buildings with angles and curves kind of enhance that angle that they are in relation to it.
Edit: after switching back and forth nonstop between Accordia and Millennium I may like Millennium more because of the office space it adds (once millennium place and one dalton are done we will have almost too much luxury so lets bring some jobs and views to the office workers) and that thing is just clean looking. Not to mention every tower gets approved looking one way and then ends up changing later and I trust Millennium more than anyone else to deliver when that happens.
