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    Ideas for the Greenway

    It would have been more appropriate for you to address your comment to BronsonShore, since he's the one who insulted me, but apparently reading skills aren't your strong suit either. I'm outta here. This is officially my last post at aB. There must be other architecture fora out there where...
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    Dude, show me the exact line in all I've posted since the start of this thread where I say that I'm a victim of the fall of western civilization. If anything, I'm a victim of people with poor reading skills who post dumb replies criticizing my comments not for what I wrote, but for what they...
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    You need to get out of the mental rut you're in, where the usability of roller coasters is determined by existing precedent, and try thinking like a Bostonian instead. If the problem with roller coasters is that they can't be used year-round then try to build the first roller coaster that is...
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    Reading all the comments generated by my off-hand idea of covering a highway ramp with a water park has given me a real gut-level understanding of why after 14 years of work and 5 billion dollars spent California still has no high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The day...
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    Is funding the criterion that determines whether a thread goes in “Development Projects” or “Boston Architecture & Urbanism”? I wasn’t aware of that. I lumped the Greenway ideas with the MLK Memorial more in terms of things like “scale” and “look and feel” and “urban context” and “public...
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    Custom House Tower Photo Thread

    I'm in total agreement with you, stick. Back in the 80's when I worked in the Financial District I went to a dentist on Milk Street, and I actually looked forward to my appointments because his office was on a high floor with windows looking right at the Customs House up close at the level of...
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    I think the topic of this thread is generally comparable to the MLK Memorial thread, so I put it here rather than the Architecture & Urbanism sub-forum to try to be consistent.
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    I think this is more a question of probability than liability. How likely is something like the scenario above likely to happen, and how much damage is it likely to cause? I mean, if you go by the news stories below having streets and buildings next to each other is a major liability...
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    My only area of expertise is software development, so I can't really address your comments. Hopefully, other aB members with relevant qualifications are able to address your objections, and maybe offer work-arounds to the issues you've raised. If worse comes to worse, I suppose the city could...
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    Ideas for the Greenway

    Here are two ideas I have for turning the onramp/offramp Greenway parcels into usable and fun public spaces without having to deck them over. 1. Make the Haymarket parcel a waterpark similar to these: Build decks/pools on the periphery of the parcel, similar to Parcel 12, and build a...
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    Flickr Finds & Social Media Pics

    Yes, that's what I'm referring to. I have some ideas myself which take the opposite approach: don't cover them up and don't turn them into parks. I think I'll write up my ideas and post them in a thread and see what people here think about them. Will probably take me a while but stay tuned...
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    Flickr Finds & Social Media Pics

    Here's hoping the State Street C-suite eventually gets sick of having an uncapped highway as their front lawn and pushes the city to so something about it. Maybe even offer to pay some of the cost as an incentive.
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    Raffles Boston (40 Trinity Place) | 426 Stuart Street | Back Bay

    Quite so! It's not all that different from the original 888 Boylston proposal, which I seem to recall everyone on aB hated. Some extra height and a stylish do really works wonders on how we perceive people — and buildings.
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    Stanhope Hotel | 39 Stanhope Street | Back Bay

    The real estate industry needs to seriously fund research into time travel technologies. Imagine if once the market conditions were right 10 or 50 years from now and all these towers were built they could be time-machined to the present so we could have them now without having to wait for the...
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    Block G | 120 Seaport blvd | Seaport sq

    If only there were some way to never see Park Lane Seaport again!
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    Dorchester Bay City (nee Bayside Expo Ctr.) | Columbia Point

    LOL. Looks like some unhappy citizens of the Seaport decided to leave and start a new settlement elsewhere, so they set sail for Columbia Point and upon landing there founded the colony of New Seaport.
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    General Boston Discussion

    For what it's worth, the ex-BF mentioned in my prior post is a hybrid civil engineer/MBA Cliff Clavin know-it-all type (but in a good way), and one of the things he'd go on Clavin-like rants about when he visited me was how good Boston's drinking water was and the great job the MWRA was doing...
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    General Boston Discussion

    https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/philadelphia_pa/boston_ma/overview Thanks. That's a lot of useful information I didn't know about how Boston compares to Philly. I'm sorry that Philly isn't doing too well. My first BF was a long-distance relationship with a local guy who went to Penn...
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    Nubian Ascends (Blair Lot) | 2164 Washington | Roxbury

    Reminds me of my childhood in the 70's too. My mother did most of her shopping for clothing and housewares at Robell's because she could put them in lay-away, which was the only way she could afford to buy things, and she sent me there regularly to make the downpayments. She also did a lot of...
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    Eli Lilly IGM | 15 Necco Street | Fort Point

    Somehow I hadn't noticed until now that this guy is designed to be the massively bulky and top-heavy Incredible Hulk alter ego of the ICA's slender and airy Bruce Banner.

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