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Board approves Brighton building with 'generously sized' units over opposition of nearby condo developers who had previously gotten their own variances
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Prow
For those others who were unable to imagine how the picture above could look like a "prow," the building is shaped like a hydraulic service plug.
But seriously: a stepped, truncated cone (with the narrow end facing the river).
The floor plans make it a bit clearer
The floors start out wide and narrow as they get closer to the river. I think there's also a specific name for a design that includes those windows that stick out like that to increase people's views of a particular area, but darned if I can remember it (there's one building on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing that was built like that, another in the Seaport facing downtown).
Sonesta
The Sonesta in Cambridge.. the older highrise is built in this manner so each room has a river view.
Side note, I was watching a 1984 episode of "Press Your Luck" (Game show). One of the prizes was a "Boston Getaway", and the sponsor hotel was the... Royal Sonesta. (FWIW, Airline was Eastern Airlines)
My educated guess says that when the second tower opened (the newer tower) in 1984, they bought ad space, in this case a game show, to promote the new hotel's tower.
Funny.
Can you imagine
what a world it would be if the ZBA actually looked at hardship? We might have updated zoning to address the issues all of these variances are getting around.
Instead, they give out variances left and right and a lot of zoning attorneys make big bucks.
Only 17 affordable units ...
... is not enough. No low income units at all. What a joke!
"only"
17 more affordable units than were on that site before. Is the glass never half full for you people?