Nice video but I think you missed the main point, they look like shit lol Not only the logistics of the project are extremely complicated and expensive, but the project itself looks frankly terrible. You can barely recognise the world map and the whole idea of these extremely small islands just does not work
It looks interesting from a distance, far less so up close. I loathe the chia pet trend. The pods look like something bad from a world's fair. His work is very hit and miss.
I always wondered, when I was young, why Boston didn't have a waterfront like San Francisco. It's beautiful what they did, but of course, it's just for the super wealthy, which is so America now.
Thank you. Yes this design lacks esthetics.A Green terraced building could have a simpler and more esthetical appearance. alsov far more economidal and easier to maintain And the designer could manipulate the flow of the terraces as necessary and in accordance to the floors function and designs
They should build modern "projects" or affordable non-profit housing and a new stadium for Manhattan. MSG is simply outdated and bland compared to the Barclays Center, and needs a major facelift as well.
⚠️ Actually its very common and "everyday" that cities decide to build a new neighbourhood in the middle of town. Happens everywhere on the planet! Starting with that(!), this is NOT worth watching‼️Dislike
The biggest problem with seaport is it feels like you can’t go anywhere else in Boston if you are there You can’t go to beacon hill, back bay etc (I mean you can just seaport feels so out of the way, and there is no T stop at all)
Thus story is all wrong I livecin Boston all my life the first building was the court house building and the hotel didn't come after the Convention center was built. You have this story.All blown out of portion
Bostonian here. The seaport is not a neighborhood, it’s full of characterless PE backed chains, put there by the PE firms and the PE adjacent firms that service them, and the PE bros that live and work in the “neighborhood”. It’s gross. The seaport is the worst part of Boston by a very large margin.
Boston didn’t build this. Real Estate developers did. When you over regulate your cities you get decrepit aged inventory. When you let private developers develop property you get modern, efficient new housing and commercial building units.
And you fail to mention just how awful the Seaport District is. What are the beloved neighborhoods in Boston? The North End. Beacon Hill. Back Bay. In all of those neighborhoods, the buildings are of human scale. Most are about 3 stories tall with some 5 stories tall. They have charm and light and human scale. The Seaport District is horrid. The buildings are huge and ugly. The traffic is horrendous. There is nothing welcoming about the place at all. The Seaport District is a monument to the failure of urban planning.
It was heading in the right direction in the 1970s when artists started making the old warehouse buildings into affordable loft-studios, but those artists have been driven out. If the city had instead kept on in that direction, converting the old warehouses into places to live and small businesses, we probably would not have a housing crisis now. The Seaport district is actually not much fun to walk it, too full of big office buildings, in my opinion. And now, what housing there is, is prohibititvely expensive. Plus, the weather is getting more intense and the sea is rising, and the Seaport area is all very low-lying and vulnerable. All this heavy investment at sea level makes no sense with increasing floods and higher tides and more intense storms. I just hope they put the heating and electrical machines up a few floors, out of reach of floods, instead of in the basements..
i remember when the seaport was nothing more than the courthouse, our lady of good voyage, the barking crab, and a bunch of parking lots and gravel pits.
do you think de Blasio and Adams had anything to do with this failure? sure the pandemic and remote working havent helped but these clowns de Blasio and Adams have destroyed a safe city.
i've always wondered how Seaport was built seemingly out on nowhere. compared to all of the other neighborhoods, you can see the all the gentrification glistening off of the glass buildings everywhere
As someone who just moved to Boston and works in one of the new waterfront offices in Seaport I don't get why everyone here is complaining. The view is beautiful and the vibe is real nice to me.
One thing I give China credit for is that it invites many architects from around the world to enhance their cityscapes. Most prominent is the late Zaha Hadid (rip).
Interesting. But you left out two major parts of the transformation of the Seaport area: the outdoor concert pavilion, now called Leader Bank Pavilion (opened in 1994 on Fan Pier, then moved further into Seaport in 1999); and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) which moved there in 2006. These two destinations made the are a place people actually had a reason to visit. Before that the only draw was the No Name seafood restaurant that had some fame for a few years. It is amazing how fast the rest got built up. Most people I know that live in the Boston area consider it to be a soulless, empty, glitzy neighborhood that doesn't feel like Boston at all. Also, it will probably be under water in the future.
@2 minutes. Actually The Seaport Hotel opened 1999. I believe that was the first, but they really didn't call it Seaport yet. It was just part of South Boston.
I worked on many of these buildings. They all have pumps running 24/7/365 to keep their basements from being flooded with sea water. Most are already sinking more than planned. They are going to have major issues in the future.
As far as the racial equality in the Seaport, I’d like to add that there is in fact a large wealthy Indian, Asian, and Saudi population percentage living in this neighborhood yet nobody ever mentions it..
