The 742-foot One Dalton started opening in May 2019, a signature milestone for the tallest new building in Boston since 1976. Along with Downtown Crossing’s Millennium Tower, in fact, the Back Bay spire is the only building completed within the 21st century to rank among Boston’s 10 tallest.
And there very likely won’t be another member of the rarefied club until the scheduled completion of the 691-foot Winthrop Center in 2022. Work on it as of March 2020 is pictured at top—and Boston’s construction moratorium due to the novel coronavirus won’t ultimately slow that construction pace either, Winthrop Center’s developer has said.
One note: The heights herein of the 10 tallest buildings by the start of 2022 are to the last architectural detail, including spires. They do not include antennae or other technical apparatus.
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