At night, it looks like a radioactive dinosaur, if you squint and turn your head.
Or it could be a robot in disguise, a Transformer stomping through the Back Bay.
In all its metallic glory, a glowing construction crane towers over Belvidere Street and Huntington Avenue, just across from the Prudential Center. It isn’t a bird or a plane, but it is expected to continue soaring over Boston, draped in a necklace of glowing light, an industrial art piece that has turned a jagged gash on the skyline into an instant landmark.