Recent content by CBCArch61

This is really coming out nicely. Triple pane windows and the only air input goes through a filtered ERV. Having walked the site a number of times it is surprisingly remarkable how much sound is blocked out along the south, highway facing, portion of the building.

This may belong more in the "Crazy" thread than anything, but why not consider a subterranean option? Provide eastern portals just west of the State Police barracks and western portal just east of the Rail Trail access road. Provide collector/distributor roads (to avoid tunnel on/off ramps) that...

This seems like the Mayor is playing land speculator. What is the goal here? Purchase the property, upzone (barely based on early conversations) and then see piecemeal for a hopeful profit? I completely agree that the land should sell to a private developer OR the city should facilitate a master...

I agree with everything you bring up here. Financing is such a pain in the butt for developers with just how they have to stack different capital entities to make everything work just right. The 100% affordable is totally a bad approach, but what is interesting is with tax credits and...

Is Liberty leaving Quincy Center or is it opening a second location? Sorry don't have a subscription

I also believe that bike lanes should be on main roads, but Eastern may provide a bit of opportunity for a compromise due to the proximity of US Bicycle Route 1/East Coast Greenway. Because the path is one block off Eastern, it may be possible to do a bike lane along the southern side of Eastern...

So what appears to boil down to is politics over society, that's very unfortunate and again, shortsighted (IMO). I understand the "no obligation" arguement, but that doesn't make it a good one. There is what appears to be a fire access road there already and I would say Forest appears to be a...

Is there an adverse grade to connect into Erie Street or Grape Street? Maybe the impact on or bridging over the Aberjona River that was that deciding factor. But I would agree that not connecting this development in from the get go was a pretty bad idea. Even with the original lab plan, only...

Finally have some vertical construction. Taken today while Enjoying the weather

If the design had gone all monochromatic, people would complain about that too. So there is no winning for architects in general. There is only so much that can be done with residential units and keep costs within a reasonable line.

Almost like a country who has heavily invested in cycling has some knowledge on the topic haha

This issue is the City of Boston governments own doing! While I wholeheartedly disagree with the vague notion that the Bus Lane project is racist, I don't disagree with the arguement that city's implementation strategy could be considered a civil rights violation. The arguement could be made...

To me, these kinds of recommendations are what make things unenforceable. I know other folks have discussed the 3 classes (and apologies that I am late to the discussion) and I think that is where it should stop. There is so much variation within each speed classification of these...

Ummmm, I think you may have missed the point of my post. Stlin used the two bridges as a an explanation to which I responded asking why we think two parallel spans should take close to a decade to build using the example of the Tappan Zee Bridge (also two spans) taking about the same amount of...

Are we really all conditioned into believing that building a bridge span should take 4-5 years? On the face of it, I agree it doesn't seem too bad, but thinking about it more it seems like 4-5 years would be more reasonable for both spans. We are talking about approximately TEN YEARS to build...