Pending plans could mark the first major change to Boston's skyline in a quarter century.
After decades of more modest projects, Boston’s designers and architects may be reigniting a new age of Hub skyscrapers—the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1970s.
Millennium Partners has pitched a plan to erect a 606-foot tower at the former Filene’s site in Downtown Crossing; Simon Property Group snagged approval last fall for an addition to Copley Place which would bring the site’s full height to 600 feet, and the man who once pitched a 1,000-foot tower for the Financial District is in talks with city officials again for another plan for the site.
Should any of those projects reach their full height, they would be the first new buildings in Boston to stand at least 600 feet since 1987—when the pink columns of One International Place joined the city’s skyline.
Of course, from JP there are just a few areas from which you can glimpse the skyline — the best of which is the Casey Overpass, which is being torn down.
Boston’s current tallest buildings:
Joan Wood
8:58 am on Monday, July 9, 2012
Very sad to see the once beautiful, small European like city of Boston, that I grew up in with such pleasure, being defaced by these hideous monstrosities. Skyscrapers are okay in massive cities like NYC or Dallas. Thank God I can avoid these areas. But the best of Boston, the human scale, the history, the culture, is revealed in the older smaller scale buildings. The new folk who have come into Boston over the past 30-40 years have added nothing of beauty or lasting value to the city. They have turned it into yet another one of America's soul-less, energy devouring wastelands of steel, best suited for the fabulously wealthy, or the grossly ambitious. .