Hello, I'm a new arrival on this site after lurking for a while. Gunner02, impressive indeed! I would love to spend some time on that terrace on a summer day taking in those spectacular urban views. I find Winthrop Center to be a more aesthetically pleasing building than I had anticipated according to the renderings and what I had seen of the construction sight before I left Boston a few years ago. I recall it went through a few iterations (one of them hideous) before the developers and the city settled on a plan that seemed to me to shoehorn itself into this oddly shaped parcel. I was hoping for a svelte, soaring tower and the proposal looked like a awkward stack of tall boxes with a conical attachment on top of the Federal Street side. Now that it's completed (without that cylindrical wing), It looks like an elegant cousin to the nearby Millennium Tower. I like the play of light and texture on the glassy, pleated façade and the interest it adds to the street wall. I realize the lobby/connector space is generally considered a disappointment among forum members, but for someone who does not work there or live in one of the residences, I see an attractive addition to the downtown cityscape. I hope to do a walk-by pass through next time I'm in town.
