Nice piece of architectural photography by jimmynotjim. In it, the Hancock Tower is reduced to simple, bold shapes. There is no clutter in the frame, only the tower--which appears solid, gridded, and abstractly singular in its environment. Excellent composition (and cropping, if there was any).
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We'll close the week with a glimpse of the Hancock Tower and surrounding buildings by photographer Bryan Bruchman. Nice composition, with the buildings reaching towards the center from opposing corners of the frame. Best of all, this photo reminds us that sometimes the money shot requires us to crouch down and look up.
AaronBBrown took out a Panasonic DMC-LX3 and came up with a nice angle of the Hancock Tower. The roadway frames the building nicely and there is enough fog to give a nice even light to the shot.
r_colameta gets us back to the basics with a photo of a golden sunset over Boston. Unlike Buffalo's Scott Norwood, this shot splits two of Boston's most famous buildings perfectly. This is a terrific silhouette.
Boston's John Hancock Tower, the tallest building in New England, was sold at auction today in New York, reports the Globe. Financial experts believe that the building will go for between $650 and $750 million, half of its 2006 price of $1.3 billion. (ETA: The building sold for $660 million.) Broadway Partners, the building's former owners, paid the $1.3 billion with labyrinth of funding, and the group defaulted on some of its loans earlier this year.
We love this great birds-eye view shot from walknboston. This is a view of downtown not often seen (anyone know where it could be from?), and the snow cover over the city really adds a layer of beauty. The over-all green tones are fantastic and the light at the base of the Hancock perfectly completes the scene.
Last year Carl Deitrich was awarded the prize for his work on a 'practical' flying car. Yesterday, Nate Ball was awarded this year's $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for his latest invention the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascende. .It allows a user to scale a rope as fast as 10 feet per second. The prize is described as "awarded annually to an MIT senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system, or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness in other ways." The rope ascender will allow the user to drastically cut the time it takes to scale a building, even with 80 or 100 pounds of gear on their person. Mechanical ascension of a building will also reduce the fatigue of the user who might otherwise be running up stairs or climbing a ladder. The potential uses for emergency response personnel like firefighters and EMTs as well as soldiers are top on the list of uses –though it's also just wicked cool in a comic book fantasy way. Who wouldn't want the opportunity to scale the Hancock Tower in about a minute?
When the cast and crew of the latest Scorsese flick, "The Departed" descended on Boston last year, Bostonist was excited to see some real movie stars film in the real streets of Boston (and not Toronto, Vancouver, or any other more affordable Canadian city). Unfortunately, they were only here about a month before heading down to New York City to use it as the backdrop for what is supposed to be an entire story set in Southie. We had to be happy with our fleeting glimpses of Leo, Matt, and Jack in the Herald's Inside Track every day since we knew that was all we were going to get.
How much longer until Mitt Romney decides whether to lose a bid for the white house or a bid for reelection? Because Bostonist is starting to feel like the matronly society wife in an old-time comedy of manners who married a philanderer for the economic and social benefits and now must stoically turn a blind eye to his dalliances with young showgirls (or primary states, as the case may be). Maybe we should create a...
Speaking of the always changing weather, Boston has its own unique meterologist, which is not named Dick Albert or Barry Burbank. Now, Bostonist knows that many of you already know of this weather signal, but for those of you who are new to Boston and need a quick weather check, just look up to the top of the old John Hancock Tower. This building (now known as the Berkeley Tower after a taller, more dominant John Hancock Tower was built in 1968) has a light on top, which depending on the incoming weather pattern, will tell you what to expect. It has been in operation since 1950 and is pretty accurate. Bostonist was trying to recall the little poem that helps Bostonians keep the signals clear:
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